George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.
ImmanuelGeorge Shepard Burleigh (18211903)
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That blazes in the deeps of blue,
And binds unnumbered worlds in one,
So rounds the tiniest drop of dew.
With stars that blossom evermore,
Still lights the lowliest lily-bloom
That nestles by the cottage door.
That burned in Zoroaster’s soul,
Kindles the humblest heart’s desire,
And beacons our eternal goal.
On Sinai, on Gennesaret,
Love’s boundless glow, the lightning Law,
Our hearts have known, our vision met.
The perfect future of its kind;
The eternal love thy bosom holds,
And thrills thy thought the Eternal Mind.
But calm in holy trust alone,
Put every alien law aside,
And walk serenely by thy own.
Deform and fetter limb and soul;
Life only from within proceeds,
Evolving one harmonious whole.
Obeys what God within it bids,
Holds firmly its inviolate throne
As Andes and the Pyramids.