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What is thy emblem , Mind ? The earth—now wearing on its forehead young Unopen ed leaf-buds , and a few pale flowers ; Now with the summer ' s green and blossom hung ,
And lavishing warm love on all the hours ; Now with its myriad glohes of rich ripe fruit , And its arboreous leaf-work , million-huerl ; Now cold in winter ' s winding-sheet and mute—But its deep heart with brooding life imbued : Its early flowers and bursting buds Struck by chill winds and cloud-rain'd floods
Its summer mantle rent and sodden , By all the elements down-trodden ; Its golden fruit and foliage scatter ed , And its dead limbs oppress'd and shatter ed By the strong wings of wind and storm , And frozen in its heart-depths warm !
What should be thy emblem , Mind ? The weltering ocean , In calm or commotion—Now with heaven ' own hue On its bosom blue—Gentle and slow , with lustrous shadows
Of clouds thin-woven , By light airs cloven , And studs of light o ' er its azure meadows ; Now dark and still As intents of ill , And a mighty mirror For every
terror—And inly-folded , like resolved will ; Now rolling and foaming In thunder and fire , Like the turbulent coming Of rending desire ; Now vailing to midnight its quivering crest—Wearing starbeams and moonlight in love on its breast .
What is thy meet emblem , Mind ? The holy beauty of the sky , Dim shroud of that vast Deity , To whose veil'd ray , all rays we see Are cloud ; with all the spirits that roam Beneath its ether-woven dome : The sun , whose space-enfolding flight Steeps the inebriate earth in slight ;
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