EARTH’S SECRET.

Not solitarily in fields we find

Earth’s secret open, though one page is there;

Her plainest, such as children spell, and share

With bird and beast; raised letters for the blind.

Not where the troubled passions toss the mind,

In turbid cities, can the key be bare.

It hangs for those who hither thither fare,

Close interthreading nature with our kind.