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/ The wind that breathes of columbines / And celandines that crowd the rocks; / That shakes the balsam of the pines / With laughter from his airy locks, / Stops at my city door and knocks.
/ He calls me far a-forest, where / The twin-leaf and the blood-root bloom; / And, circled by the amber air, / Life sits with beauty and perfume / Weaving the new web of her loom.
/ He calls me where the waters run / Through fronding ferns where wades the hern; / And, sparkling in the equal sun, / Song leans above her brimming urn, / And dreams the dreams that love shall learn.
/ The wind has summoned, and I go: / To read God's meaning in each line / The wildflowers write; and, walking slow, / God's purpose, of which song is sign, -- / The wind's great, gusty hand in mine.