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God gran to to each a sphere to be hit w © rkJ » Appointed with the various objects needed To satisfy his own peculiar wants ; So , I create a world for these ray shapes Fit taPfeusiain their beauty and their strength I " And , at the word , I would contrive and paint
Woods , valleys , rocks , and plains , delis , sands , and wastes , I * akes which when morn breaks on their quivering bed Blaze like a wyvern flying round the * sun ; And ocean-isles so small , the dog-fish tracking A dead whale , who should find them , would swim thrice Around them , and fare onward—all to hold The offspring of my brain . Nor these
alone—Bronze labyrinths , palace , pyramid , and crypt , Baths , galleries , courts , temples , and-terraces , Marts , theatres , and wharfs—all filled with men ! Men everywhere ! And this performed , in turn , When those who looked on pined to hear the hopes ,
And fears , and hates , and loves which moved the crowd , I would throw down the pencil as the chisel , And I Would speak : no thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold ; all passions , Ail soft emotions , from the turbulent stir Within a heart fed with desires like
mine—To the last comfort , shutting the tired lids Of him who sleeps the sultry noon away Beneath the tent-tree by the way-side well : And this in language as the need &hould be , Now poured at once forth in a burning flow / Now piled up in a grand array of words . This done , to perfect and consummate all , Even as a luminous haze links star to star ,
I would supply all chasms with music , breathing Mysterious motions of the soul , no way To be defined save in strange melodies . Last , having thus revealed all I could love , ] Having received all love bestowed on it , I would die : having preserved throughout my course God full on me , as £ was full % n men .
He would approve my prayer—*• I have gone through The loveliness of life , create for me If not for men—or take me to thyself , Eternal , infinite Love !"' There is another description of like beauty , of love working with bounded means . A few lyrics are interspersed , which arc
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/34/
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