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Lowell, James Russell - Men called him but a shiftless youth
Identifier
005937
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
I wanted to cross relate Lowell's understanding that being with nature has a very positive effect on your spiritual abilities. Thus the activities here reflect the poem and not Lowell's activities
A description of the experience
The Poems of James Russell Lowell
Men called him but a shiftless youth
In whom no good they saw
And yet, unwittingly in truth
They made his careless words their law
They knew not how he learned at all
For idly, hour by hour
He sat and watched the dead leaves fall
Or mused upon the common flower
It seemed the loveliness of things
Did teach him all their use
For, in mere weeds and stones and springs
He found a healing power profuse
And day by day more holy grew
Each spot where he had trod
Till after poets only knew
Their first born brother as a god