What Nature mirrors and reveals--

What Nature mirrors and reveals--
The purblind vision it unseals
To sight of awesome Presence holy,
That chastens sore ere He soothes and heals,--

The reign of law, with ethic rule
E'en in the breast of idle fool,
(As moon and stars are heavenly pictured
Within the breast of a noisome pool)--

Herein is claim of Nature's worth.
Though I forget the forms of earth,
Of gilded cloud and circling planet,
I know His fire lives within their girth.