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« Yep yv&fe > &iete times , the tiqrid , b ^ hi $ 4 &tft £ wtt ^ fii' Ms face &nd form for When noJfear dan ^> 5 d bis young soul ' i - aMeat&ttae , And warm and fast the flowing
language came * , -.- .. Came from his lieart , whilst nature's ecstacies Spoke in his voice and darted from bis eyes—Then beam'd his spirit forth without Oli ! there are moments in life ' s
earker 4 ays , Whilst yet the heart is cheer'd by hope ' s bright rays , When—breaking through the gloom - around it castrtih' enthusiast mind—all reckless of
the past , Surrtfunded by the self-created light Of its own visions , pure , etherial , bright , Will gaze intense , with soul-enraptur ed sight s Upon this world of woe , o erlook its ' - • • i » ill , And frame its scenes exactly to > the Will , .
PeQBWig the earth a paradise of bliss ?* - * Y ^ WS top happy for a . world like 'the foHbvring paragraph , pp . 43 , 44 , i ^ roa i of nature ana tenaerness :
" Who has / not fedt % pang ; or dropp * d atear , . jQn leading jscenes which time has ren ~ : ^ fd deaj , ^ Where—rday by day beheld for many ye ^ i 7 s-r-Each well-known object like a friend
appears ? The heart , when once familiar witJi them , clings With . ft > nfl idolatry to lifeles s * things . A walk , a fw ^ spect , mountain , stream , or tree , ' Wbich passiog strangers undelighted
see , To thoee who long bay * known them , still- appear . 1 r ; Above $ 11 other walka or prospects .,. dfea / , ^ id few , i « latest a ^ e ^ have eW forgot Thdr youth ' s atu * chineut to , 8 Qme fa-. yonrite spot /* - ^ te ^ tef «^ W ^ feelip ^ ^ qct hei > e ^ * VW f ^ pT ^ aiy situation i « . whjcb he
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^ Ha ti *© , rt ^ icj ^ d ^ fer iVoli noiie and striffe , h ^ - ^ ' * Dwells In thy vaJes , retina ft'om pablit ¦^ : - '¦ 'Ii 85- ^ - - ^ '• ' > - - . ; ., ' - ^ , ; - . . . . Tho * friends are absent , and the desert . , .... drear * . ¦ » ¦ ,. --- -.: . . H-olds in its cheeiless bosom nothiag .- w deai * - ^ , ' ¦ . ,, : ' - . - . ) Is not a ] one , for in thy deepest ehadefii
Thy barren wilds , and most deserted gla 4 e . % Tho * there no mortal footstep ever trod , He marks the nobler impress ,. of his God . :
Him , ever present ' midst his ? forto ^ he sees , In momitalns > deserts , rivers , fields and trees , In gathering tempests Tiews his awful powV , . , His melting mercy in the falling sbow ' r * His cheering smile in morning ' s open *
ing ray , And all the softer tints of closing day . When the loud thunder shakes th 6 trembling spheres , His fearful voice in every peal he hears , Its- gentler accents in the Western gale r Fhat whispers peace 6 * er every hill and vale .
" Unlike those pastors , who , themseifes to please , Neglect their flocks , too fond of selfish ease , : Ah idle bliss in lonely musings seek , Confin ed to some warm study all the week , And think—the Sabbath o ' er—their
duties done , Till shines another Sabbath ' s tedious sun . He sought the hut obscure , and lonely ¦ c ° t # . / , . ' i Whe ^ e sorrow dj-dops neglect ed ana fc > JWt , " f . _ .
Where sickness pines in s \> me secluded celt , And want and age—sad pluh !—with mi « Vy dwell : "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 48, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/48/
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