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allied to triumph , for his were the triumphs of good over evil . We feel that his spirit has touched many dark places . It has beamed on the most degraded scenes of savage life , it has helped to unlock the fetters of slavery , it has descended into prisons , it has entered and will enter much more into the spirit of our criminal code , it has given historians lessons of toleration , inculcated on statesmen higher principles of action , and associated with the poetical name the remembrance of a pure , serious , and devout spirit . These things cannot be , and be in vain . Shakspeare says— * The evil that men do lives after them , The erood is oft interred with their bones : '
but , for once , we find ourselves completely at issue with him . The evil is perishable and transitory ; but ' the sun may as well
discard its own rays , and banish them from itself into some region far remote from it , where they shall have no dependence at all upon it , as God can forsake and abandon goodness in the world , and leave it a poor , orphan thing , that shall have no influence from him to preserve it . and keep it . ' * To think of it as left in the silent grave to mingle with the dust , while the spirit of evil is allowed to walk the earth triumphant and unperishing , is one of
those suggestions which we must put down to the account of momentary thoughtfulness or misanthropy . It did not emanate from the spirit of man ' s better nature , from the spirit which is of
God . To us , on the contrary , it has often seemed as if the fruits of a good life were only perfected in death—as if the dissolution of the earthly fabric were generally ordained to precede the full influence of a noble example .
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A Night amid the Sea ^ ward Hilfo . 575
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A NIGHT AMID THE SEA-WARD HILLS .
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The brow of Heaven wears No frown , nor storm-cleft wrinkle ; The fountain ' s gentle tears Arnid the silence tinkle ; The lake it formeth in the meadow Is kiss'd by many a trembling- shadow Of flo > wer and blade ; Reflected stars , its depths amid , Gaze heavenward as with furtive lid , And by the moon a pyramid Of lig-ht is made .
The water-fowl supine Crowd close , with hidden bills The ruminating kine Move not upon the hills ; Moths on the warm air dimly flit , And insects in a slumb ' rous fit * Cudworth .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1833, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2624/page/15/
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