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Earth hath her images of utterance, / Her hieroglyphic meanings which elude; / A symbol language of similitude, / Into whose secrets science may not glance; / In which the Mind-in-Nature doth romance / In miracles that baffle if pursued -- / No guess shall search them and no thought intrude / Beyond the limits of her sufferance. / So doth the great Intelligence above / Hide His own thought's creations; and attire / Forms in the dream's ideal, which He dowers / With immaterial loveliness and love -- / As essences of fragrance and of fire -- / Preaching th' evangels of the stars and flowers.