Nature's Lesson
From deep observation I saw
In growing plants and bedding seeds
A strange manifest of nature's law
That leaves come 'fore a root proceeds
In animals a stem of cells
Upon which the brain comes to rest
Deep in the dark embryo dwells
And somewhere there the heart will rest
And since the top before bottom
Forms, like sky's mist before the earth
God higher yet let me fathom
His presence first and then my birth
Who, invisible adds, the mass
To the dividing dormant cell
Ere a suckling tongue brings the grass
Food till it grows o'er all the dell
There is a presence none may know
With measured work or finite sight
A vague meaning for each rainbow
A vast love transparent in light
Nature that shows God's absence here
To some, reveal his presence to me
And sometimes in the stillness clear
In shooting leaves, this love I see.
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