Arcanna

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Earth hath her images of utterance,
  Her hieroglyphic meanings which elude;
  A symbol language of similitude,
  Into whose secrets science may not glance;
  In which the Mind-in-Nature doth romance
  In miracles that baffle if pursued--
  No guess shall search them and no thought intrude
  Beyond the limits of her sufferance.
  So doth the great Intelligence above
  Hide His own thought's creations; and attire
  Forms in the dream's ideal, which He dowers
  With immaterial loveliness and love--
  As essences of fragrance and of fire--
  Preaching th' evangels of the stars and flowers.

© Madison Julius Cawein