Nature
The Song of the Forest: VIII
From Poems New and Old (1920)
Nature
But as a forest bending in the wind
Murmurs in all its boughs after the wind,
Sounds uninterpreted and untaught airs;
So now when Thy wind over England stirs,
The proud and untranslating sounds of praise
Mingle tumultuous over our human ways;
And magnifying echoes of Thy wind
Rouse in the profoundest forests of the mind.
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Freeman, John. “The Song of the Forest: VIII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/freeman/19/.
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Freeman, John. “The Song of the Forest: VIII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/freeman/19/.
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