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Ranolf and Amohia

III

III.

"What is there," he thought, "in the scene, in the hour,
The moonlight—the silence—that tempts us to dower
All Nature thus with spiritual power?
Can it be that their magical influence
But awakes in ourselves a keener sense
Of some mysterious manifold chain—
The myriad channels that may knit
Magnetic currents of the brain,
page 212 Or subtler filaments more fit,
Along which Thought and Feeling flit,
To those that permeate Air and Earth
And all things that from these have birth?
Linking in one consentient whole
All Nature to each living Soul;
And opening for each Soul again
Subtle ways of intercourse
With every other, near, aloof;
An infinite web of spiritual force,
An universal warp-and-woof
Of Sympathy—though yet hut rare
The minds whereby, the moments when,
The mystic threads and what they bear
That softly undulate, float, and run,
Viewless but where they catch the sun)
Are brought within the conscious ken? "