Poem by Madison Julius Cawein

Fulfillment

Yes, there are some who may look on these
Essential peoples of the earth and air
That have the stars and flowers in their care
And all their soul-suggestive secrecies:
Heart-intimates and comrades of the trees,
Who from them learn, what no known schools declare,
God's knowledge; and from winds, that discourse there,
God's gospel of diviner mysteries:
To whom the waters shall divulge a word
Of fuller faith; the sunset and the dawn
Preach sermons more inspired even than
The tongues of Penticost; as, distant heard
In forms of change, through Nature upward drawn,
God doth address th' immortal soul of Man.

1. Night and Rain
2. The Toad
3. The Town Witch
4. Above the Vales
5. Autumn Etchings

Edward Sill Fulfillment ("ALL the skies had gloomed in gray")

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