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The soul that | sees him, or re- | ceives, sub- | limed, || New faculties, or learns at least to em- | ploy More | worthily |the | powers she | owned be- | fore, ◄|

Dis- | cerns in | all things | what with | stupid | gaze Of ignorance, till | then she | over- | looked, | A ray of heavenly | light, gilding | all | forms | Terrestrial in the vast and the mi- | nute; 771 The unambiguous | footsteps of the | God, | Who | gives its | lustre | to an | insect's | wing, | And wheels his throne upon the | rolling | worlds. | Much conversant with | heaven, she often | holds | With those | fair | ministers of | light to | man, |

That fill the skies

nightly with | silent | pomp, |

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With which | heaven | rang, when every | star, in

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To gratulate the | new-created | earth,|

Sent forth a voice, and all the sons of | God | Shouted for joy. 111111"Tell me, ye | shining

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That navigate a | sea that | knows no

storms, |

Beneath a vault un- | sullied with a | cloud, |77| If from your ele- | vation, || whence ye | view

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Favored as ours;

trans-gressors from the womb,

And hastening to a grave, yet doomed to rise, And to possess a | brighter | heaven than | yours? |

As one who | long de- | tained on | foreign | shores,| Pants to re- turn, | | and when he sees a- | far | weather-bleached and battered |

His country's

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From the green | wave e- | merging, darts an eye Radiant with joy, towards the happy | land; 171 So I with | animated | hopes be- | hold, |

And many an aching | wish, your | beamy fires,| | | | 1 | That show like | beacons in the | blue a- | byss, | Or- dained to | guide the em- | bodied | spirit | home | From toilsome | life to never-ending | rest. 11 Love | kindles as I gaze! I feel de- | sires, | | | ▼

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That give assurance of their | own success,

And that in- | fused from | heaven

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lost,
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With intellects be- | mazed in | endless | doubt, 71

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But runs the | road of | wisdom. || Thou hast | built |

With means, that were not | till by | thee em- |

ployed,

Worlds, that had never been hadst | thou in strength

Been less,

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They are thy witnesses, who | speak thy | power |

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And goodness infinite,

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but speak in ears |

That hear not, or re- ceive not | their re- | port.

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In vain thy | creatures | testify of | thee, |
Till | thou pro- | claim thy- | self. |▼

in- | deed, |

A teaching voice;

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| Theirs is,

but 'tis the | praise of thine, |

prompt to

That | whom | it | teaches | it | makes

learn,

And with the | boon gives | talents for its |

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Yet | deemed o- | racular, | lure | down to | death, ◄|

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The unin- formed and | heedless | souls of men.

We give to chance, | blind | chance,

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Perfect and unim- | peachable of | blame,

Challenging human | scrutiny, | and | proved |

Then skillful | most when | most severely | judg

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But | chance is not; | or | is not | where | thou |

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Thy | providence | for- | bids | that | fickle | power |

If | power she | be that works but to con- | found)|
To mix her wild va- | garies with thy | laws.
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Yet thus we dote,

Instruction,

re- | fusing while we can. | and in- | venting to our- | selves |

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Gods such as guilt makes | welcome; gods that | sleep |
Or | disregard our | follies, or that | sit
A-mused spec- | tators of this bustling | stage. 111771
Thee | we re-ject, un- | able to a- | bide |

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'tis the voice of | song,

Then | liberty,

like | day, |

and, by a flash from | heaven,

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Till thou hast touched them:

Aloud ho- | sanna | sent from | all thy | works; ◄|

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In that blest | moment, || Nature, throwing |

wide

Her veil opaque, dis- | closes with a smile |

The Author of her | beauties, | who, re- | tired |

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Be- | hind his | own cre- | ation, | works un- | seen

By the im- pure, and hears his power de- | nied. 17771

Thou art the source | and | centre of | all | minds, |

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From | thee is | all that | soothes the | life of | man,

His | high en- | deavor,

His strength to suffer,

and his | glad suc- | cess, and his will to serve. |

But oh, thou | bounteous | Giver of all good, 1

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Thou art of all thy gifts thy- | self the | crown!|◄|

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Lock up thy senses; let no | passion | stir; 1|17|

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Of nature's | silence, midnight, || thus in- |

quire:

As I have done;

and shall in- quire no more.
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In nature's channel | thus the questions | run: 11/711 "What am I? and from whence? I nothing

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| know,

But that I am; and, since I am, con- clude |

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