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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), February 1827, Edition 1 of 1, Page 95, Untitled Article

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      " What is the gift of Life ?" Speak thou , in young existence revelling—To thee it is a glorious god-like thing : Love , Hope and Fancy lead the joyous way , Ambition kindles up her living ray , There is a path of light mark'd out for thee , A thornless path , and there thy way shall be ; A thousand spirits by thy side shall fall , But thou shalt live , and look beyond them all , — Yes , life indeed may seem a joyous thing .

      " What is the gift of Life " To thee , subdued and taught by wisdom's voice , Wisdom of stern necessity , not choice ?

      Whose cup of joy is ebbing out in haste , Who hast no fountain to supply the waste , Whose spirit , like some traveller gazing round On broken columns in the desert ground , Sees but sad traces , on a lonely scene , Of what life was , and what it might have been , — O is not Life a sad and solemn things ?

      " What is the gift of Life , ' To him who reads with Heav'n-instructed eye ? 'Tis the first dawning of Eternity—The future Heav'n just breaking on the sight , The glimmering of a still increasing light ;—Its cheering scenes , foretastes of heav ' nly joy , Its storms and tempests , sent to purify ;—O is not Life a bright , inspiring thing ? " What is the gift of Life , "

      To him whose soul through this tumultuous road Hath past , and found its home , its Heav ' n , its God ? Who sees the boundless page of knowledge spread , And years as boundless rolling o ' er his head ; No cloud to darken the celestial light , No sin to sully , and no grief to bli g ht ;—» Is not that better life a glorious thing ?

      of Christianity , and I believe him to be a believer in it upon the deepest conviction , and after a most accurate examination of the subject . He has studied the Scriptures long and critically , and is , I believe , truly pious and devout , though he attends tio

      place of public worship when here . He is a strenuous Unitarian , and told me not long since that the Creeds and the Litany are what keep him from Church : what keeps him from the places where those are absent I know not . Not long since he told me merrily , that if he dies in this country he will appoint me executor and administrator of his papers , to be disposed of at my discretion : these , he says , will All a cart chest . He has no children besides the physician mentioned above ; but he has a family of eight young children . '

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/15/