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TO the Heavens above us     
  O look and behold     
The Planets that love us     
  All harnessed in gold!     
What chariots, what horses
  Against us shall bide     
While the Stars in their courses     
  Do fight on our side?     
 
All thought, all desires,     
  That are under the sun,
Are one with their fires,     
  As we also are one:     
All matter, all spirit,     
  All fashion, all frame,     
Receive and inherit
  Their strength from the same.     
 
(Oh, man that deniest     
  All power save thine own,     
Their power in the highest     
  Is mightily shown.
Not less in the lowest     
  That power is made clear.     
Oh, man, if thou knowest,     
  What treasure is here!)     
 
Earth quakes in her throes
  And we wonder for why!     
But the blind planet knows     
  When her ruler is nigh;     
And, attuned since Creation     
  To perfect accord,
She thrills in her station     
  And yearns to her Lord.     
 
The waters have risen,     
  The springs are unbound—     
The floods break their prison,
  And ravin around.     
No rampart withstands 'em,     
  Their fury will last,     
Till the Sign that commands 'em     
  Sinks low or swings past.
 
Through abysses unproven     
  And gulfs beyond thought,     
Our portion is woven,     
  Our burden is brought.     
Yet They that prepare it,
  Whose Nature we share,     
Make us who must bear it     
  Well able to bear.     
 
Though terrors o'ertake us     
  We'll not be afraid.
No power can unmake us     
  Save that which has made.     
Nor yet beyond reason     
  Or hope shall we fall—     
All things have their season,
  And Mercy crowns all!     
 
Then, doubt not, ye fearful—     
  The Eternal is King—     
Up, heart, and be cheerful,     
  And lustily sing:—
What chariots, what horses     
  Against us shall bide     
While the Stars in their courses     
  Do fight on our side?