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Say , will the share less pierce or shine , Because ye think of Burns ' s line ? Must ye neglect the lowing kine At ev ' ning-fall , If , chance , the songs of auld lang syne Those sounds recall ?
No ! though your homes may humble be , As is the lark ' s upon the lea , The mind may spread its wings all free , The nest above , And pour down thence new melody On all ye love .
While , too , on Nature ' s glowing page Ye comment with the bard and sage , More lofty themes may well engage A thought at times—When the Great Author fills the stage , How it sublimes !
The hawthorn ' s breath , the brooklet ' s fall , The distant cuckoo ' s evening call ,
The sunset mountain's gorgeous pall , The twilight dim , Touch'd by Religion , each and all , O'erflow with Him . And think—whate ' er in this world—thou , Who toilest at " the sacred plough , " May ' st yet lift an immortal brow
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In lands unknown , When o ' er the limbs , so vigorous now , Leans the grey stone . Crediton , April 28 , 1831 ,
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CHRISTIAN PATRIOTISM .
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376 Chri&tinn Patriotism .
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The sacred and heavenly influences which invest the character of our Lord have inspired the mind with so much reverence , that men have hesitated to think of Jesus as any thing but a divine messenger , and been deterred from ascribing to him any mere , however exalted , earthly excellence . Jesus the Saviour has so absorbed the affections , that few have ventured to look on Jesus the Patriot . Earth and Heaven ought to be in no case disunited , for they are linked together in God ' s appointments , and by a reciprocity of
influences ; nor in any case more than in his character , who came down from Heaven that he might lead the sons of men thither . Jesus was in all respects like unto his brethren . Not a feature of humanity is there but he wore
itbut each in a renovated and brightened form . He was of the earth , but from it he sprung to heaven—to all divine and heavenly graces , that is—to the per-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/16/
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