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    ¦ » . - • . .. \ . - . -. ¦ r .... , j . . < Awake the myriad choir—bid music sound ! We are not what we were , but beauty l } ves When hopes decay : ' tis cold and drear around , And chill to thought ; and yet , anon , we see - ' ¦ - A new and varying idiosyncracy Clothe life in beauteous being ; and the sky , Replete with promise as a boundless sea , Rich in its treasures hid to mortal eye , And rolling onwards to eternity , Speaks rest to toil , and such as sufferers be .

    II . There is a strict and just analogy In Nature ' s laws , eternal and unchanged ; And the mind ' s countless impulses that lie In a perfected system , nicely ranged As are the endless tenants of the sky : Yet 'tis a mystery—beautifully strange-Impalpable existence 1 Variously we try The ever-varying link to traoe ; the task Refined analysis and thought defies , With all the systems of philosophies ; . And ' tis in vain of Nature that we ask ' What is this atom of eternity— ! This inspiration of infinity , And its dim glances that ofttimes we see ? '

    III . 'Tia not the offspring of the Poet ' s song , ; v Nor of the gentle limner ' s silent art , > Jqr philosophic minds , but / tis the long And deep-enduring conflicts of the heart To virtue trained . T ^ he patriot ' s chosen part , Def y iiig death to pure philanthropy , And those bright visions Svhich Reformers see ; ' This is true happiness . To such compare The hoard of Mammon—» worthless it appears : Its crowns and mitres dazzle but to scare , And owe their greatness to a country ' s tears . V . ? * * * * <

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 289, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/34/