A Glorious Universe

What natural Is, tell! The hawk in tabloid swoop did boast – Whose sweetened-toil doth but Stink, becometh it A merry-menu nutriment. The floods and the woods Of their own stead in silent-words – As a sentry – Sendeth but a sober plea of a loyal peasantry O, Nature! Creator! – all alludeth in an apogee To Thy apanage and earnestly giveth plaudit unto Thee. The swallow withal doth cheerfully Gather and spin the straw ready to build wholly Her empire of great tutelage; And with her brethren bridally liveth in that age Of diligent generation, in Thee fully hid And given to lead like a kid. What is more natured Than a frog or toad in water plodded and nurtured? His severe and heedless howl showeth his joy To tell that: silent in a grave he shalt be a toy! And the squirrel the jungle quire bustleth from Tree to tree defiant of mortal wisdom. A colossal splendour standeth Thine sun, whose domain the day standeth; Withal the moon’s comity: Thou, to her appal, Bestoweth Thine night colonel – Both but enlisteth in Thine countless soldiers of stars Thine extol they effuseth like showers. No less for praise, joineth the beasts – In the homes so in the forests! At peace in war as an influenza, Thine honours – Man, Thine effigy, intellect and genius, in his hours Extendeth through the gross of polity Concurring with each command of Thine policy. O, the fish speaketh of Thine glory, ingenious! This inferred from a noisy-silence of her fins; For she scorneth the indigent effort Of the fisher whose labour won doth him hurt; Yet, both creatures in many a varied way Inditeth for posterity great praises that for Thee doth stay. Yes, the clouds and the firmaments Oceans, rivers, seas: all waters in constant movements Doth in harmony with man and beasts Arrayed in silent-noisy feasts Shower in mysterious mirth Thine glory from endless history and myth. Yet, I behold the ineffable work bestowed on me; My limbs, they moveth to second Thine decree! My eyes, no exception indeed To the law of my being, so splendid Are those commands for me safely to live Tho’ many infamous beings abound to strive!