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| INAUDIBLE move day and night, | |
| And noiseless grows the flower; | |
| Silent are pulsing wings of light, | |
| And voiceless fleets the hour. | |
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| The moon utters no word when she | 5 |
| Walks through the heavens bare; | |
| The stars forever silent flee, | |
| And songless gleam through air. | |
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| The deepest love is voiceless too; | |
| Heart sorrow makes no moan: | 10 |
| How still the zephyrs when they woo! | |
| How calm the rose full blown! | |
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| The bird winging the evening sky | |
| Flies onward without song; | |
| The crowding years as they pass by | 15 |
| Flow on in mutest throng. | |
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| The fishes glide through liquid deep | |
| And never speak a word; | |
| The angels round about us sweep, | |
| And yet no voice is heard. | 20 |
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| The highest thoughts no utterance find, | |
| The holiest hope is dumb, | |
| In silence grows the immortal mind, | |
| And speechless deep joys come. | |
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| Rapt adoration has no tongue, | 25 |
| No words has holiest prayer; | |
| The loftiest mountain peaks among | |
| Is stillness everywhere. | |
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| With sweetest music silence blends, | |
| And silent praise is best; | 30 |
| In silence life begins and ends: | |
| God cannot be expressed. | |
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