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A Forest Hymn

A Forest Hymn
William Cullen Bryant

"A Forest Hymn" is an 1824 poem written by William Cullen Bryant, which has been called one of Bryant's best poems, and "one of the best nature poems of that age". It was first published in Boston in the United States Literary Gazette along with several other poems written by Bryant.

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“Ah, why
Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect
God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore
Only among the crowd and under roofs
That our frail hands have raised?”

William Cullen Bryant A Forest Hymn

A Forest Hymn

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