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LINES Written in a Lady ' s Album , on her leaving- England * Whether , ' midst Flandria ' s fertile fields , The bliss you share that friendship yields ; Or art ' s , or nature ' s charms explore , The boast of some far-distant snore ; Or , rapt with deeds of elder time , You range Italia n storied clirbe ,
By Tiber ' s stream , of deathless fame , Recount full many a mighty Raine , And trace , ' midst Rome ' s degenerate « ong , Their steps , wiio trod on prostrate thrones : < Where ' er : y ©« rest , where ' you ream , Be Albion still yotir favfc&r'd home . ¦ i r r * tj Ctopton , June 23 , 1628 .
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414 Poetry *—Lines written in a Lady ' s Albtfm .
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And deaf indeed is the clay-cold ear , That no souads of music greet ; Tho' nought as the music of praise and prayer Is half so exquisite . <
And why should man a distant bliss So eagerly , fondly cliase , While the holy joys of a world like this Invite his present embrace ? Are the unknown beings of yonder zone More privileged than we ? Does a shorter year , or a brighter sun - Imply felicity ?
They may wander perchance in groves of palm , And dwell in palaces bright ; They may breathe an air as sweet as balm , And be clad ia robes of light : Yet there , as here , the fatal grave " Will o ' er their possessions close ; And the more they enjoy , the more they have , The more they are destined to lose .
O let our portion content us then * The portion which < jk > d has given 3 For man is the fair earth ' s denizen , And the heritor of heaven . Above him are gorgeous , golden clouds , That roll in glory afiar ; And the night , which its bosom in darisness shrouds * Is sprinkled with many a star . And brighter and fearer tmm star or sun Is the light that beams from on high ,
A light which condHcts its pilgrims on To the shrine of eternal joy : And thither our Jowering thoughts shall soar , And there the tire < i spirit sltall rest ; While hope bursts oj > en the heavenly door ] Of the mansions of the blest .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1823, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1786/page/46/
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