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36 INTEODUCTOEY BSSAT,
Day had kindled the dewy woods.
And the rooks above, and the stream below,
And the vapours in their multitudes,
And the Apennine's shroud of summer snow—•
Day had awakened all things that be;"
just SO surely, he tells us (stepping forward
from this delicious dance-music, choraguslike,
into the grander measure befitting the
final enunciation),
" All rose to do the task He set to each.
Who shaped us to his ends and not our own;
The million rose to learn, and One to teach
What none yet ever knew or can be known."
No more difference than this, from David's
pregnant conclusion so long ago !
Meantime, as I call Shelley a moral man,
because he was true, simple-hearted, and brave,
and because what he acted corresponded to
what he knew, so I call him a man of rehgious
mind, because every audacious negative cast
up by him against the Divine, was interpenetrated
with a mood of reverence and
adoration,—and because I find him every-