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... hear the voice of God among the trees ; With thee in shady solitudes I walk , With thee in busy crowded cities talk , In every creature own thy forming power , In each event thy Providence adore . Thy hopes shall animate my drooping ...
... hear the voice of God among the trees ; With thee in shady solitudes I walk , With thee in busy crowded cities talk , In every creature own thy forming power , In each event thy Providence adore . Thy hopes shall animate my drooping ...
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... Hear him , ye deaf , and all ye blind , behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray , And on the sightless eye - ball pour the day . ' Tis He th ' obstructed paths of sound shall clear , And bid new music charm th ...
... Hear him , ye deaf , and all ye blind , behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray , And on the sightless eye - ball pour the day . ' Tis He th ' obstructed paths of sound shall clear , And bid new music charm th ...
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... hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear . On rifted rocks , the dragon's late abodes , The green reed trembles , and the bulrush nods . Waste sandy valleys , once perplexed with thorn , The spiry fir and shapely box adorn ; To ...
... hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear . On rifted rocks , the dragon's late abodes , The green reed trembles , and the bulrush nods . Waste sandy valleys , once perplexed with thorn , The spiry fir and shapely box adorn ; To ...
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... hear Bright harmony from every starry sphere ; Nor at thy presence brake the voice of song From all the cherub choirs , And seraphs ' burning lyres , Poured through the host of heaven the charmed clouds along . One angel - troop the ...
... hear Bright harmony from every starry sphere ; Nor at thy presence brake the voice of song From all the cherub choirs , And seraphs ' burning lyres , Poured through the host of heaven the charmed clouds along . One angel - troop the ...
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... hear , Save with faith's raptured ear , Thy voice of tenderness , God's holy Son ! Our eyes behold thee not , Yet hast thou not forgot Those who have placed their hope , their trust in thee ; Before thy Father's face Thou hast prepared ...
... hear , Save with faith's raptured ear , Thy voice of tenderness , God's holy Son ! Our eyes behold thee not , Yet hast thou not forgot Those who have placed their hope , their trust in thee ; Before thy Father's face Thou hast prepared ...
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Page 152 - Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom...
Page 61 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow thee ; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my all shalt be ; Perish every fond ambition, All I've sought, or hoped, or known ; Yet how rich is my condition, God and heaven are still my own.
Page 106 - Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my Hymn. Thou first and chief, sole sovran of the Vale ! O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky or when they sink...
Page 173 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all...
Page 174 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 98 - FRIEND after friend departs ; Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying none were blest.
Page 13 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ; Thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; Thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sit'st above these Heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 152 - Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 143 - THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb.
Page 36 - If aught should tempt my soul to stray From heavenly wisdom's narrow way, To fly the good I would pursue, Or do the sin I would not do, — Still He, who felt temptation's power, Shall guard me in that dangerous hour.