...chance desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose which ever is the same. Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face ; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds ; And fragrance...

...are unprofitable; the other, in which we who look on cannot refrain from recalling the ode : — " Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace, Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." Let us note another marked characteristic in the discussion...

...chance-desires : My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's...on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and...

...of duty goes into the mighty work which is ever ours. How applicable here are the words of the poet: "Stern Lawgiver! Yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know I anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh before the on their beds, And fragrance...

...invariable conformity to moral law just as the activity of flowers and stars conforms to natural law: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and...

...not an unpleasant burden. This custom reminds one of William Wordsworth's lines in his "Ode to Duty': Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face; Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance...

...from duty fulfilled. In his " Ode to Duty " he brings all under her stem but benignant power : — " Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, are fresh and...

...image, "wear[ ing]," and thus expressing his grace the way a smile represents a person's disposition: Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face. (49-52, in Poems, in Two Volumes 107) The following...

...wise.] Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear 50 The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh...on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and...

...intrinsic undecidable causality of moral speech. At issue is the following stanza of the Ode to Duty : Stern lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds; And Fragrance...