Part 2 — THE BEAUTIFUL OF EARTH.

All Nature’s beauteous forms, of light, of earth, or air, or sky,

Compare not with the flexile frame, the lustrous, speaking eye;

The opening flower, the rainbow tint, the blue and star-lit dome,

Are things of naught, in contrast with the angels of our home:

All gentle acts, all noble thoughts, of Heaven-directed birth,

Are centered in the fair and good, the beautiful of earth.