A Sequel to Don Juan — page 138: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. 129 Vi. But, Ah! the true religion may be read. In mountain-torrent and in placid stream— In ocean tossing in its mighty bed— In gloomy forest and in sunshine’s beam— In the loud thunder and the lightning dread— In comets’ fiery glow and meteors’ gleam— In fertile fields where golden harvests wave— In life with all its bustle—and the grave ! VI. Yes—Nature has her morals more sublime Than all that human wisdom ever knew : There’s not a written monument of Time Can teach a lesson half so sage or true As Nature’s volume, studied in a clime Where her majestic scenery can imbue Th’ imagination with a fitting sense Of all her grandeur and omnipotence ! VIE, Those, who in towns and mighty cities dwell, To the great voices by which Nature speaks In her grand scenes, are inaccessible :— The world’s voice with its clamour ever seeks To drown the voice of God. But ’tis the swell Of ocean raging, and the storm that wreaks Its vengeance on the forest, and the flow Of mountain-torrents to the vale below ;— I COMmiclbooks.conn