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William Cullen Bryant
A Forest Hymn
This great 19th-century poem of Nature-mysticism contains intimations of Cosmotheism.
by William Cullen Bryant, 1824
THE GROVES were God’s first temples. Ere man learned
To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,
And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed
The lofty vault, to gather…
To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,
And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed
The lofty vault, to gather…