Power out of hurt and stain
To bring beauty back again,
and showing the
Scope and purpose, hint and plan
Lurking in the Pipes of Pan,
as well as the sheer delight that we noted in Vagabondia.
It seems that every mood of every creature has been divined and uttered, uttered with deep love, with a human relatedness that melts the barriers between life and life, whether in man or in
All the bright, gay-colored things
Buoyed in air on balanced wings.
This relatedness, and all the molding influences of nature leading us on from beauty to strength, are developed in Mr. Carman’s poem until they become to us religion. We realize that at heart we are all pantheists, and that revelation antedates the Book; that the law is written on the leaves of roses as well as on tables of stone,—a testament both new and old, given for our learning that we might have hope.