THE varied earth, the moving heaven,
        The rapid waste of roving sea,
The fountainpregnant mountains riven
        To shapes of wildest anarchy,
By secret fire and midnight storms
        That wander round their windy cones,
The subtle life, the countless forms
        Of living things, the wondrous tones
Of man and beast are full of strange
Astonishment and boundless change.

The day, the diamonded light,
        The echo, feeble child of sound,
The heavy thunder’s girding might,
        The herald lightning’s starry bound,
The vocal spring of bursting bloom,
        The naked summer’s glowing birth,
The troublous autumn’s sallow gloom,
        The hoarhead winter paving earth
With sheeny white, are full of strange
Astonishment and boundless change.

Each sun which from the centre flings
        Grand music and redundant fire,
The burning belts, the mighty rings,
        The murmurous planets’ rolling choir,
The globefilled arch that, cleaving air,
        Lost in its effulgence sleeps,
The lawless comets as they glare,
        And thunder thro’ the sapphire deeps
In wayward strength, are full of strange
Astonishment and boundless change.