John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). The Poetical Works in Four Volumes. 1892.
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And in its common forms discern
A beauty and a harmony
The many never learn!
In simple flower and leaf and stone
The impulse of the sweetest lays
Our Saxon tongue has known,—
As sweet and pure, as calm and good,
As a long day of blandest June
In green field and in wood.
By strife of sect and party noise,
The brook-like murmur of his song
Of nature’s simple joys!
The primrose by the river’s brim,
And chance-sown daffodil, have found
Immortal life through him.
The rosy tints his sunset brought,
World-seen, are gladdening all the vales
And mountain-peaks of thought.
And human passion change and fall;
But that which shares the life of God
With Him surviveth all.