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the plant is not a tiny tree , with its mock branches and minikin seeds . Nor is the morning merely a dim day . Some powers in man , like some arts in society , speedily attain to excellence ,, while others wait for the appropriate excitement or discipline . This must be taken into account in reasoning backward from maturity to youth ; although what allowance should be made for it is a question not very easy of solution .
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56 A Portrait .
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Beautiful , eyes ! they seem to fill all space With light ,-and love , and hope , and purity ! To watch the gleam that plays about thy face Is like a glimpse of fairy land , we try In vain to track the spell so wondrously Revealed in thee—whence is it ? for where'er
Thy presence comes , so rare a grace we see In its poetic charm , the very air By thee seems newly gifted to make all things fair . Excelling voice ! whose spirit tone can reach The whole world of the heart in one brief minute ,
And by its music-eloquence can teach What deeply-hidden treasures lie within it ; Thou liast a power to charm the soul , to win it To deeds of nobleness—oh ! then to praise , As voice to song , the heart leaps to begin it ! Whence comes thy power ? whence that excelling" grace ? Whence the surpassing light that shines from out thy face ? Love answers for thee ! he has shed around thee The atmosphere of light wherein you dwell ; Even the reptiles who crawl forth to wound thee Are decked with glowing colours by thy spell ; They cannot harm thee , and thine eye might well Charm serpents dumb , who fain would hiss at thee—Let them hiss on , heed not their venom ' s swell ; Bear on and fear not ! thou art guarded by The finely-tempered shield of thine own purity !
Shine on , thou sunborn child of light ! thou star That dwellest brightly in thine own calm heaven ! What tho' the ignorant world send up afar Its noxious vapours ! Yet to thee ' tis given To live thy life of light for ever ; even The clouds that thicken darken not thy way ;
Theirs is the mist of earth—thine light from heaven ; The changeful wind shall waft the cloud away , While thou shalt shine serene in thine own changeless ray . S . Y
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A PORTRAIT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 56, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/56/
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