“The groves were God's first temples.”
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
A Forest Hymn http://www.bartleby.com/248/83.html (1824)
“They built a temple for the God,
'Twas in a myrtle grove,
Where the bee and the butterfly
Vied for each blossom's love.”
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
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Each voice with each in praise of Jubal vied.”
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Context: No eye saw him, while with loving pride
Each voice with each in praise of Jubal vied.
Must he in conscious trance, dumb, helpless lie
While all that ardent kindred passed him by?
His flesh cried out to live with living men,
And join that soul which to the inward ken
Of all the hymning train was present there.
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Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 465