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Let others for man ' s baseness only plead , This is my faith—my hopeful , happy creed I How beautiful is nature ! the lone vales—The shrub-fring'd rocks , the mountains vast , the seas Begemm'd with isles , and spotted o ' er with sails—The weeds , the wild-flowers , and the forest-trees . The springs whose crystal tribute never fails—The winding streams—how beautiful are these ! How fair the . broad blue arch o ' er all things bow'd When sunset flushes through the lingering cloud . And beautiful is summer ' s balmy night , When the soft stars ar * e shining in the sky , And the pale moon is shedding pearly light—And beautiful is morning ' s dewy eye Of rosy hue , —and noontide blazing bright With many a mingling green and golden dye- *^ And , oh , how beautiful the summer ' s eve When weary hearts rejoice , or gentler grieve !
And full of beauty are the autumnal Avoods Checker ed with wan , and red and yellow leaves ; And winter lacks not beauty when his floods Are coped with ice , and when the snow-storm weaves A mantle for the fields , and glistening hoods For the tree-tops , and high the white drift heaves—And flower-crown'd spring , when winter ' s frosty thrall She breaks , is yet more beautiful than all !
Oh , how I love the beautiful , where ' er It loving dwells , —in nature or in man ;—It calms my heart , it reconciles to care ; It lustre throws on the mysterious plan Of Providence . I feel the bright and fair , Can never lie beneath the Almighty ' s ban . They lead my willing spirit up to Him 1 The beautiful makes Deity less dim ! It tends to breed , to foster , and diffuse An universal love , by soft appeals To the touch'd spirit . —Like the silent dews It calls out grace and fragrance—it unsteels Man ' s stubborn nature !—Ever then , my Muse , Be thine the will , —the effort that reveals The forms of beauty kindled from above—The bright reflections of Eternal Love I T . N .
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S 49 The Beautiful
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/26/
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