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The trick of Nature's cipher still.
Folk songs
By Whittier, John Greenleaf
I turn from Nature unto men,
I ask the stylus and the pen;
What sang the bards of old? What meant
The prophets of the Orient?
The rolls of buried Egypt, hid
In painted tomb and pyramid?
What mean Idumea's arrowy lines,
Or dusk Elora's monstrous signs?
How speaks the primal thought of man
From the grim carvings of Copan?
Artist: Whittier, John Greenleaf
Year: 1850
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