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NATURE

From the September 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal


To him who in the love of bounteous Nature,
Sweet concord holds amid her varied thought,
She shows,—the grand old Dame—full many a feature,
Which to the blind are hid, because unsought.

The birds, the flowers, the trees—if we but heed them,
All tell a tale of love of God to man.
The lilies of the field trust God to feed them,
And they are but one thought in His great plan.

The brook in its sweet way tells forth its gladness
A song of joy to the responsive heart.
True Nature—God's pure thought—knows naught of sadness
Or change, or of decay, for dust thou art—

And unto dust returnest," does not touch
A single thought of God. The whirlwind and
The tempest are but clouds before our vision,
To hide the truth, and death?—there is no such.

So, if from Nature we but learn our lesson,
And see the true Creation, on God's thought,
The harmony of man with God we'll hasten,
And discord flee away, and death be naught.


"True law is right reason conforming to nature, universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrain us from evil."—

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