From the heart beneath, as if, God speeding me,
I entered his church-door, nature leading me)
—In youth I looked to these very skies,
And probing their immensities,
I found God there, his visible power;
Yet felt in my heart, amid all its sense
Of the power, an equal evidence
That his love, there too, was the nobler dower.
Then follows a long and rather abstruse passage, leading up to the following lofty and inspiring conclusion:—
So, gazing up, in my youth, at love