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Topic: Write a Travelogue (11/06/14)
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TITLE: TRAVELOGUE: The window view in a fast moving train | Previous Challenge Entry
By Dr Surya Kumar Daimari
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God has been described in the Bible as “the perfection of beauty” in Psalm 50:2,
“Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.”
Psalm 24:1 (A Psalm of David),
“The earth is the Lord’s; the world, and they that dwell therin.”
Psalm 19:1,
“The heavens declares the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handy-work.”
Our God is truly an architect and the author of all beauty. But it is perhaps the man who is more responsible in devastating her beauty and glory polluting her body by adultery and stains of blood. Thus some alien thoughts came into my mind.
It is through this window that I could remember lines that William Wordsworth wrote long ago.
“To her fair work did Nature link,
The human soul that through me ran,
And much it grieved my heart to think,
What Man has made of Man.
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If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be nature’s holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What Man has made of Man ?”
William Wordsworth
( from “ Lines written in early Spring” )
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It was William Wordsworth, the great poet of nature of the centuries who was ever trying to interpret the moods of nature in terms of spiritual values. This poem, “Lines written in early spring “conveys a delicate and subtle expression of his thought and grievances and also his philosophy of life and nature.
The poet is always concerned with two things, nature and man. In nature he is concerned more with spiritual manifestations rather than sensuous. The blissful company of nature gives Wordsworth a sense of divine proximity and oneness with nature herself. The poet has an amazing message of nature to human kind through this splendid poem. How true the message is for everyone! God has kept us on this earth to keep it and save it from all kinds of exploitation. The Psalmist says in Psalm 33:5,
“He loveth-righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.”
I was not aware of anything what was going on inside the train. I suddenly came into senses when the TTE asked me for ticket. It was almost evening. But still then the train was running fast past an onyx- green lake. I was amazed with the black, grey and blue fascinating colors of twilight. I could see the glittering sea in the far west and the sun that dipped behind the wild horizon. Suddenly the darkness overshadowed the whole earth . I soon closed the window and prayed that God would open the window of my mind to see the marvelous glory of Him.
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I enjoyed it.
God bless~