Still will I catch the light that faintly falls

Through my leaf-latticed window of the skies,

And I will listen to the voice that calls

From heaven, where the wind stricken forest sighs.

And I will read of dim Creation's morn,

From the deep archives of these mossy hills—

On wings of wizard thought, my fancy, borne

Back by the whispers of these pouring rills,

Shall read the unwritten record of the land—

For God, unwitnessed here hath walked the dell,