~The Book Of Wonder Encyclopaedia~

~Poetry - James Walker Brown~

~Nature's Music~

			The morning stars that sang so long ago,
			  The storm's stentorian voice, so loud and clear,
			The summer zephyr, whispering soft and low,
			  Discourse sweet music, had we ears to hear.

			Fair Nature's gentlest harpist - evening breeze -
			  The songsters of the wood doth lull to sleep;
			O'er million strings - the leaves of myriad trees -
			  The player's unseen fingers deftly sweep.

			The crystal stream that hastens to the sea,
			  Oft shimmering with the glow of sunlit fires,
			The while I listen doth discourse to me
			  Its liquid melodies on stony lyres.

			O give me ears, that I may ever hear
			  The mystic melody, without, within;
			Help me to trace the notes so sweet and clear
			  Of angel's song, 'mid earth's discordant din.