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Or Virtue ' s feeble embers fanned ; where ' er A sin was heartily abjured and left ; Where'er a pious act was done , or breathed A pious ^ rayer , Or wish'd a pious wish , — There was a high and holy place ^ a spot Of sacred light , a most religious fane , Where Happiness , descending , sat and smiled . " P . 154 .
May I take the liberty of remarking , that the Reviewer of Mrs . Hemans * Poems , in bringing that lady for a moment into comparison with Mrs . Barbauld , has not adverted to one of the most marked distinctions between them ? I should think the warmest admirer of the late Mrs . B . would not hesitate in allowing to Mrs . H . the superiority in mere imagination . But in harmonious and flowing diction , in exquisite and even elaborate finish * in the perfectly good choice of words , and in the classical purity of her taste ,
Mrs . B . again is surely the superior . It is often quite necessary to glance over Mrs . He mans' lines before we can venture to read them aloud , lest the accent should not fall in the right place ; with Mrs . Barbauld this is never required . It is to be regretted that the most impressive , beautiful and engaging of our living poets should not bestow rather more time on the needful labour oi correction , T .
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u Thou shalt sleep with thy fathers , " as they Are sleeping in silence with theirs ; And the dark grave where moulders thine ancestors' clay Shall soon be the home of thine heirs .
" Thou shalt sleep with thy fathers . Thy doom , Like theirs , is to moulder beneath ; The only thing permanent here is the tomb , The only thing certain is—death . " Thou shalt sleep with thy fathers . " JRepose Which flies from the wretched one ' s l > ed ; When prayed for by weariness , courted by woes—Repose is the lot of the dead .
" Thou shalt sleep with thy fathers . " They were And they are not ; thou art , but ere long Thou shalt not be : we vibrate 'twixt pleasure and care , And fall ' midst the sepulchred throng . " Thou shalt sleep with thy fathers . " They sleep With their fathers ; and wave after wave Whelms the centuries of men to the grass-covered heap Which affection hath raised for the grave .
** Thou shalt sleep with thy fathers . " Thy sons Shall sleep in aue season with thee ; Till the last drop of time from it * cistern which runs Falls into eternity's s $ a » April 7 , 1828 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/23/
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