The Miracle

If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst
forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder
and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous
change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity.
To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and
the perpetual exercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its
withdrawal would be.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow