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I cannot count the pebbles in the brook. / Well hath He spoken: 'Swear not by thy head, / Thou knowest not the hairs,' though He, we read, / Writes that wild number in his own strange book.
I cannot count the sands or search the seas, / Death cometh, and I leave so much untrod. / Grant my immortal aureole, O my God, / And I will name the leaves upon the trees.
In heaven I shall stand on gold and glass, / Still brooding earth's arithmetic to spell; / Or see the fading of the fires of hell / Ere I have thanked my God for all the grass.