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I	A
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There breathes not a breath of the summer air	B
But the spirit of love is moving there	B
Not a trembling leaf on the shadowy tree	C
Flutters with hundreds in harmony	C
But that spirit can part its tone from the rest	D
And read the life in its beetle's breast	D
When the sunshiny butterflies come and go	E
Like flowers paying visits to and fro	E
Not a single wave of their fanning wings	F
Is unfelt by the spirit that feeleth all things	F
The long mantled moths that sleep at noon	G
And rove in the light of the gentler moon	G
And the myriad gnats that dance like a wall	H
Or a moving column that will not fall	H
And the dragon flies that go burning by	A
Shot like a glance from a seeking eye	A
There is one being that loves them all	H
Not a fly in a spider's web can fall	H
But he cares for the spider and cares for the fly	A
He cares for you whether you laugh or cry	A
Cares whether your mother smile or sigh	A
How he cares for so many I do not know	E
But it would be too strange if he did not so	E
Dreadful and dreary for even a fly	A
So I cannot wait for the how and why	A
But believe that all things are gathered and nursed	I
In the love of him whose love went first	I
And made this world like a huge great nest	D
For a hen to sit on with feathery breast	D
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II	A
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The bird on the leafy tree	C
The bird in the cloudy sky	A
The hart in the forest free	C
The stag on the mountain high	A
The fish inside the sea	C
The albatross asleep	J
On the outside of the deep	J
The bee through the summer sunny	C
Hunting for wells of honey	C
What is the thought in the breast	D
Of the little bird in its nest	D
What is the thought in the songs	K
The lark in the sky prolongs	K
What mean the dolphin's rays	L
Winding his watery ways	L
What is the thought of the stag	M
Stately on yonder crag	M
What does the albatross think	M
Dreaming upon the brink	M
Of the mountain billow and then	N
Dreaming down in its glen	N
What is the thought of the bee	C
Fleeting so silently	C
Or flitting with busy hum	O
But a careless go and come	O
From flower chalice to chalice	P
Like a prince from palace to palace	Q
What makes them alive so very	C
Some of them surely merry	C
And others so stately calm	R
They might be singing a psalm	S
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I cannot tell what they think	M
Only know they eat and drink	M
And on all that lies about	T
With a quiet heart look out	T
Each after its kind stately or coy	M
Solemn like man gamesome like boy	M
Glad with its own mysterious joy	M
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And God who knows their thoughts and ways	L
Though his the creatures do not know	E
From his full heart fills each of theirs	U
Into them all his breath doth go	E
Good and better with them he shares	U
Content with their bliss while they have no prayers	U
He takes their joy for praise	L
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If thou wouldst be like him little one go	E
And be kind with a kindness undefiled	T
Who gives for the pleasure of thanks my child	T
God's gladness cannot know	E
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III	A
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Root met root in the spongy ground	T
Searching each for food	T
Each turned aside and away it wound	T
And each got something good	T
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Sound met sound in the wavy air	B
That made a little to do	T
They jostled not long but were quick and fair	B
Each found its path and flew	T
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Drop dashed on drop as the rain shower fell	V
They joined and sank below	E
In gathered thousands they rose a well	V
With a singing overflow	E
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Wind met wind in a garden green	W
They began to push and fret	T
A tearing whirlwind arose between	W
There love lies bleeding yet	T

George Macdonald

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