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As The Indian.

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Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind     Sees God in the clouds and hears Him in the wind.     --Pope.     Within the wind, my untaught ear         The voice of Deity can hear,     And in the fleeting cloud discern         His movements, vast and taciturn;             For in the universe I trace             The wondrous grandeur of His face.     I see him in each blade of grass,         Each towering peak and mountain pass;     Each forest, river, lake and fen         Reveals the God of worlds and men;             His works of wisdom prove to me,             A wise, creative Deity.

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