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Does nothing exist that can't be seen.
And that no man ever saw?
The earth in the spring is clothed II Sreln.
Plut who sees the hfe that gives its sheen?
Or the Source of nature's law
We call God "Father" beeause le miade
The living soul with Ilis breath
(an aner the Father's heart invade
Does the Father still ilis child upbraid ?
Will [to r1n it a fter deaih ?
Nothing but nYstev here is olund
WVhere our senses feebly plod ;
The mind constrained-hy Iie finite boand-
Can never the depths of creation sound
Nor fathom the ways of God.
No man-miade cre eann resolve our doubt--
We are blind--and have always been,
Rut (an /('4 when Go d i re(ts our route
And the waiting sol with joy may shout
With its faith in things unseen.
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The Soul, poem, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1091593/m1/4/: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.