“We lack but open eye and ear
To find the Orient's marvels here;
The still small voice in autumn's hush,
Yon maple wood the burning bush.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The Chapel of the Hermits; comparable to Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, Book vii

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