Ever upon this stage，
Is acted God's calm annual drama，
Gorgeous procession， songs of birds，
Sunrise that fullest feeds and freshens most the soul，
The heaving sea， the waves upon the shore， the musical，
strong waves，
The woods， the stalwart trees， the slender， tapering1 trees，
The liliput countless2 armies of the grass，
The heat， the showers， the measureless pasturages，
The scenery of the snows， the winds' free orchestra，
The stretching light-hung roof of clouds， the clear cerulean
and the silvery fringes，
The high dilating3 stars， the placid4 beckoning5 stars，
The moving flocks and herds6， the plains and emerald meadows，
The shows of all the varied7 lands and all the growths and
products.
