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George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.

Matter

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888)

OUT of the chaos dawns in sight

The globe’s full form in orbèd light;

Beam kindles beam, kind mirrors kind,

Nature ’s the eyeball of the Mind;

The fleeting pageant tells for nought

Till shaped in Mind’s creative thought.