Nature
Great Spirit whom the sea of boundless thought
From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)
Nature
Great Spirit whom the sea of boundless thought
Nurtures within its unimagined caves,
In which thou sittest sole, as in my mind,
Giving a voice to its mysterious waves—
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Codex Note
Written 1821. Published 1870.
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