Rare Earth
So that grave spirits
Of the sky and hills
And dragons from beneath
The mountains high
May walk the earth
And stretch their limbs and cry,
Making strange sounds
For which the wind is blamed.
Where is the man
Whose eye is trained so keen
That he can see
Beyond the screen of Night?
What strange tales lurk
Within the velvet folds;
Only the moon
And cold night wind
May know.'
There is much in life that man does not understand. The material world is only the owner of one-third of our lives. Two-thirds is spiritual. The material world in the person of Doctor Steinlin has evidently failed. But from the spiritual we have not heard. In spiritual
things there is promise. That is why so many
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