Archibald Lampman, ‘Voices of Earth’.
In this poem, Lampman (1861-99), ‘the Canadian Keats’, ponders the voices of ‘earth’s secret soul’:
We have not heard the music of the spheres,
The song of star to star, but there are sounds
More deep than human joy and human tears,
That Nature uses in her common rounds;
The fall of streams, the cry of winds that strain
The oak, the roaring of the sea’s surge, might
Of thunder breaking afar off, or rain
That falls by minutes in the summer night …