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Of Hfc t ***« * mtottid % * A here « w * thew ' Beeor scattarM o w the vlgfele world before , Asking to W tombinM—dim fragments meant To be united in tome wondrfeas tftw > k—Imperfect qualities throughout creatioft , Suggestin g some one creature yet to make *—» » . * ? * «
And man appears at last : so far tbe seal Is put on life : one stage of being complete . One scheme wound up ; and from the grand result A supplementary reflux of light , Illustrates all the inferior grades , explains Each back step in tbe circle : not alone Tbe clear d&wn of those qualities shines out ,
But the new glory mixes with the heaven And earth . If an , once descried , imprints for ever His presence on all lifeless things—the winds Are henceforth voices * wailing , or a shout , A querulous mutter , or a quick gay laugh- — Never a senseless " gust now man is born . After some varied and most poetical illustration , the author continues : c And this to fill us with regard for man , Deep apprehension of his passing worth , Desire to work his proper nature out , To ascertain his rank and final p lace . For all these things tend upward—progress is The law of life—man is not man as yet :
Nor shall I deem his object served , his end Attain'd , his genuine strength put fairly out , While only here and there a ttartfifrgfeis The darkness—here and there a towering mind O ' erlooks its crawling fellows : when the host Is out at once to the despair of night , When all mankind is perfected alike , Equal in full-blown powers—then , not till then Begins the general infancy of man ; For wherefore-make account of feverish starts
Of restless members of a dormant whole—When all the race is perfected alike As iiuni * that is : all tended to mankind And , man produced , all ha * its end thus far ; But in completed man begins anew
A tendency to God . Prognostics told Man ' s near approach ; so in man ' s self a ^ se August anticipations * symbols , types Of a dim sptewdour ever on before , In the et * r * flt < feel * life pursues : For men begin to fais ttieSr nature ' s bound . To have ne # J * b * fhad « fere « which fast sittMIimt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 722, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/30/
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