And healing sympathy, that steals away

Their sharpness, ere he is aware;

but broken into groups, as one would read them, they fall:

To him who in the love of Nature

Holds communion with her visible forms,

She speaks a various language;

For his gayer hours she has a voice of gladness,

And a smile and eloquence of beauty,

And she glides into his darker musings,

With a mild and healing sympathy,