Fulfillment

There are some souls who may look in on these Essential peoples of the earth and air-- That have the stars and flowers in their care-- And read their soul-suggestive secrecies: Heart-intimates and comrades of the trees, Who from them learn, what no known schools declare, God’s knowledge; and from winds, that, singing, fare, God’s gospel, filled with mighty harmonies. Souls, unto whom the waves impart a word Of fuller faith; the sunset and the dawn Preach sermons more inspired even than The tongues of Pentecost; as, distant heard In forms of change, through Nature upward drawn, God doth address th’ immortal part of Man.