Greet the sun, spider, and don’t be sulky;
Give your thanks to the Lord, you toad, since you exist.

Try to be what you are, riddles, and leave responsibilities to the Norms who in turn will send them to the Almighty.

Sing, cricket, in the light of the moon, and let the bear dance.

Saluda al sol, araña, no seas rencorosa,
da tus gracias a Dios, oh sapo, pues que eres.
El peludo cangrejo tiene espinas de rosa
y los moluscos reminiscencias de mujeres.
Sabed ser lo que sois, enigmas, siendo formas;
dejad la responsabilidad a las Normas,
que a su vez la enviarán al Todopoderoso…
(toca, grillo, a la luz de la luna; y dance el oso.

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It’s Ruben Darío’s great example of the pantheist idea : all things are part of the same being which is God.

The poet addresses the spider and the toad. They are both rather ugly, and he tells them that only the Lord is accountable. There is  humor and some broad common sense in his approach.

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Rainer Maria Rilke too is a pantheist, but he feels so highly solemn about it that there is no room for second thoughts:

……Every Angel is terrible, and yet I
sing to you, almost deadly birds of the soul,
knowing   what you are.

Ein jeder Engel ist schrecklich. Und dennoch, weh mir,
ansing ich euch, fast tödliche Vögel der Seele,
wissend um euch.

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Pantheist poets love to  say solemn things about nature.  The typical ingredients are “vast”, “infinities”, “spheres”, “distances”, “sublime”, “eternal”, and “spirit”. The typical device is rhythmical  enumeration.

Here is Walt Whitman sounding as solemn as a full time preacher. It is hard to read this complete. Maybe his better poetry is not that hollow:

A vast similitude interlocks all,
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets, comets,
asteroids,
All distances, however wide,
All distances of time – all inanimate forms,
All Souls – all living bodies, though they be ever so different, or in
different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes – the fishes, the
brutes,
All men and women – me also,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed, or may exist, on this globe or any globe,
All lives and deaths – all of past, present and future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spanned, and shall
forever span them, and compactly hold them.

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