The Three Voices + 

The waves have a story to tell me, + 

As I lie on the lonely beach; + 

Chanting aloft in the pine-tops, + 

The wind has a lesson to teach; + 

But the stars sing an anthem of glory + 

I cannot put into speech. + 

The waves tell of ocean spaces, + 

Of hearts that are wild and brave, + 

Of populous city places, + 

Of desolate shores they lave; + 

Of men who sally in quest of gold + 

To sink in an ocean grave. + 

The wind is a mighty roamer; + 

He bids me keep me free, + 

Clean from the taint of the gold-lust, + 

Hardy and pure as he; + 

Cling with my love to nature + 

As a child to the mother-knee. + 

But the stars throng out in their glory, + 

And they sing of the God in man; + 

They sing of the mighty Master, + 

Of the loom His fingers span; + 

Where a star or a soul is a part of the whole, + 

And weft in the wondrous plan. + 

Here by the campfire’s flicker, + 

Deep in my blanket curled, + 

I long for the peace of the pine-gloom + 

When the scroll of the Lord is unfurled, + 

And the wind and the wave are silent, + 

And world is singing to world. + 