Nature

The Song of the Forest: VIII

by John Freeman 1880–1929

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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