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    Their proper joyt and grieft ; they , groir too great For narrow creed * of rigbt and wrong ; which fade ' Before unmeasiur'd tbftet for good ; while peace Rises within them eyei * tnore and more . Such men are even now upon the earth— - Serene amid the half-forovd creatures round ,

    Whom they should save and join with them at last Such was my task , and I was bom to it—Free , as I said but now , from much that chains Spirits ingh-dovrerM , but limited and vex'd By a divided and delusive aim—*******

    Yet , constituted thus , and thus endow ed , I fail'd : I gazed on power till I grew blind . Power : I could not take my eyes from that—That only was to be preserved , increased At any risk ; display ed , struck out at once—The sign , and note , and character of man .

    I saw no use in the past : only a scene Of degradation , ugliness , and tears ; The record of disgraces best forgotten ; A sullen page in imman chronicles To be erased : I saw no cause why man Should not be all-sufficient even now ;

    Or why bis annals should be forced to tell That once the tide of light about to break Upon the world was seai'd within its spring , Although my own name led the brightness in : 1 would have had one day , one moment ' s space , Change man ' s condition , push each slumbering claim To mastery o ' er the elemental world At once to full maturity : then roll Oblivion o ' er its work , and hide from man 1

    What night had usherd morn . No so , dear child Of after-days , wilt thou reject the Past , Big with deep warnings of the proper tenure By which thou hast the earth : for thee the Present Shall have distinct and trembling beauty , seen Beside its shadow—whence , in strong relief , its features shall stand out : nor yet on thee Shall burst the future ; as successive zones

    Of several wonder open on some spirit Flying secure and glad from heaven to heaven ; But hope , and fear , and love , shall keep thee man J AH this was hid from me : as one by one My dreams grew dim , my wide aims circurnscribed ^ -

    As actual good within my reach decreased , While obstacles sprung up this way and that , To keep me from effecting half the sum , Small as it proved : as object * , mean within The prinftal aggregate , remained ftlone Of all K )\ e company , and , even the loafet *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 723, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/31/