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SYMPATHY WITH NATURE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 32.

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SYMPATHY WITH NATURE.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Is it an idle dream that nature shares Our joys, our griefs, our pastimes, and our cares? Is there no summons when, at morning’s call, The sable vestments of the darkness fall? Does not meek evening’s low-voiced Ave blend With the soft vesper as its notes ascend? Does not the sunshine call us to rejoice? Is there no meaning in the storm-cloud’s voice, No silent message when from midnight skies Heaven looks upon us with its myriad eyes? —Oliver Wendell Holmes.