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What does the speaker in "My Heart Leaps Up" mean by the phrase "natural piety"?

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pious or piety means being devoted to something (more specifically god) In the poem however he wants to be bound by natural piety or devoted to the natural world or nature, so natural piety is devoted to nature or the natural world

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