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INFLUENCE OF NATURAL OBJECTS
In calling forth and strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and early Youth;
From an unpublished Poem.
(This Extract is reprinted from "The Friend.")
Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe!
Thou Soul, that art the Eternity of thought!
And giv'st to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion! not in vain,
By day or star-light, thus from my first dawn
Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me
The passions that build up our human soul;
Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man,—
But with high objects, with enduring things,
