Aslant the dew-bright earth, and colored air,

He looks in boundless majesty abroad,

And sheds the shining day, that burnish’d plays

On rocks, and hills, and towers, and wandering streams,

High-gleaming from afar. Prime cheerer, light!

Of all material beings, first and best!

Efflux divine! Nature’s resplendent robe!

Without whose vesting beauty all were wrapp’d

In unessential gloom; and thou, O Sun,

Soul of surrounding worlds! in whom best seen