Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Poems. VIII. ManHenry Septimus Sutton (18251901)
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Stares thee in rock, bush, river, in the face.
Never yet thine eyes beheld a tree;
’Tis no sea thou seest in the sea,
’Tis but a disguised humanity.
To avoid thy fellow, vain thy plan;
All that interests a man is man.