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/ Man's are the learnings of his books -- / What is all knowledge that he knows / Beside the wit of winding brooks, / The wisdom of the summer rose!
/ How soil distills the scent in flowers / Baffles his science: heaven-dyed, / How, from the palette of His hours, / God gives them colors, hath defied.
/ What dream of heaven begets the light? / Or, ere the stars beat burning tunes, / Stains all the hollow edge of night / With glory as of molten moons?
/ Who is it answers what is birth / Or death, that nothing may retard? / Or what is love, that seems of Earth, / Yet wears God's own divine regard?