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What sympathies of Heaven and Earth The human ego enters in! The universal stain of sin Which qualifies it from its birth, Denying it their highest worth. There is a parallel of kin ’Twixt earth and man, that dignifies Endeavor with such sympathies.

The all mysterious wisdom waits In mountain, wood, and waterfall, Sky, rock and sea, to hear the call Of something--firmer than the Fates-- Deep in the soul it elevates; And to the splendor of the All Advances, through the night’s immense, The spirit of experience. So think I now while, long and loud, The wind its maniac music beats, And storm a madman’s song repeats To echoes in the rushing cloud; While all the world to wrath is vowed, And nothing conquers or defeats The darkness and the rain that raves Above the all-unheeding graves.