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Blest &nge \ ! who , ere Time began his race Didst in the bosom of the Father dwell , Where ' er Thou art is Heav ' n , thine absence bell ! Spread thy bright flame , unveil thy bean . teous face , ' Extend thy reign , thj gen'rous triumphs swell , Till one unbounded Heav ' n all worlds embrace M ^ I Ml ^^ BM
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Poetry . —Morning Hymn . To a Violet . 191
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LINES Hy an African Woman * ( From an American Newspaper . ) Imagination ! who can sing * thy force ? Or who describe * the swiftness of thy course ? Soaring * through air to find the bright abode , TV imperial palace of the thundering- God . We on thy pinions can surpass the wind And leave the rolling universe . behind : From star to star the mental optics rove Measure the skies and range the realms above . There in one view we grasp the mighty whole , Or with new worlds amaze th unbounded
soul ; Tho' winter frowns , to fancy ' s raptured eyes The fields may flourish and gay scenes arise , The frozen deeps may burst their iron bands , And bid their waters murmur o ' er the sands ; Fair Flora may resume T her fragrant reign , , And with her flowry riches deck the plain ; Sylvan us may diffuse his honous round , And all the forest may with leaves be crowned 9 Show ' may descend , and dews their gems disclose , And nectar sparkle on the blooming rose . —^
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MORNING HYMN . Again the morning ' s beams proclaim The glories of thy sacjred name ; And heaven and earth and air and sea Reflect Thy might , Thy majesty ! Thy everlasting * love is spread O er valley , plain and mountain-head - Breathes in the breeze , and lights the ¦> . dew Tis ever active—ever new . 1 —¦«¦
But man , Thy friend , Thy favVite shares Thy kinder , Thy peculiar cares ; And whafc is man , that he should be A friend , —a fav ' rite , Lord ! of Thee ? O be it my unwearied aim To merit this distinguished name ; All other praise—all other bliss Is weak , is vain , compar ed with this . A .
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TO A VIOLET . Sweet flower ! Spring ' s earliest , lofeliest gem ! While other flowers are idly sleeping Thou rear ' st thy purple diadem ; Meekly from thy seclusion peeping . Thou , from thy little , secret mound , Where diamond dew-drops shine above thee , Scatterest thy modest fragrance round ; And well may Nature ' s Poet love thee ! Yes ! I have envied thee , sweet flower ! And longM like thee to live obscurely : Sheltered in some benignant bow ' r , And breathing forth my soul so purely . Thine is a short , swift reign I know-But here , —thy spirit still pervading—New violet-tufts again shall "blow , Then fade away— -as thou art fading , And be renewed \ the hope haw blest , ( O may that hope desert me never !) Like thee to sleep on nature ' s breast , And wake again , and bloom for ever A . 4 ag ^ WBflBBMH || aMito
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** ' - ^—FREEDOM . ( From the German . J Better to sit iii freedom ' s hail , With a cold , damp floor , and a mouldering Wall y Than to bow the head , and to bend the knee , In the proudest palace of slavery . OLEABIUS .
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¦ ( ON I AN INFIDEL . From the Germ an . ) # „• * * laughs and jests at me ; while Return an honest , heartfelt sigh . KAESTMER .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/55/
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