God, the Soul
How few are they to whom the impalpable
And unseen are a truth, and are, of all
That is—of inert being or animal,
Fluid or gross, the living principle
And very self—the acting miracle
Which makes our world a mystery. Yet men call
This grand, sublime,—that puerile or small,
One weak or poor—another wonderful!
As though all Great were not of the Unseen,
All Small, the absence of the Invisible One!
For what is vast bur nearing God? or mean
But erring from the Godlike?—there is none
In the Unbounded must all limit end,
And from the one I AM, all being must descend.
- Title
- God, the Soul
- Alternative Title
- How few are they to whom the impalpable
- Creator
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George Shepard Burleigh
- Bibliographic Citation
- George S. Burleigh Papers, 1825-1902. John Hay Library, Brown University. Small Scrapbook 66
- For the Washington (PA) Banner
- Date
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- note
- One of his earliest poems to show the influence of Transcendentalism
- Under E.D.H. pseudonym.
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God, the Soul
