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IF the foolish call them “flowers,”

   Need the wiser tell?

If the savants “classify” them,

   It is just as well!

 

Those who read the Revelations

   Must not criticise

Those who read the same edition

   With beclouded eyes!

 

Could we stand with that old Moses

   Canaan denied,—

Scan, like him, the stately landscape

   On the other side,—

 

Doubtless we should deem superfluous

   Many sciences

Not pursued by learned angels

   In scholastic skies!

 

Low amid that glad Belles lettres

   Grant that we may stand,

Stars, amid profound Galaxies,

At that grand “Right hand”!