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Delicious, on his rosy wing; each bird,
Or high in air or secret in the shade,
Rejoicing, warbles wild his matın hymn;
While beasts of chase, by secret instinct moved,
Scud o'er the lawns, and, plunging into night,
In brake or cavern slumber out the day.

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Invited by the cheerful Morn abroad,
See, from his humble roof the good man comes
To taste her freshness, and improve her rise
In holy musings: rapture in his eye,
And kneeling wonder speak his silent soul
With gratitude o'erflowing, and with praise.
Now Industry is up: the village pours

Her useful sons abroad to various toil;

The laborer here with every instrument

Of future plenty armed; and there the swain,
A rural king amid his subject flocks,
Whose bleatings wake the vocal hills afar.
The traveller, too, pursues his early road,
Among the dews of morn. Aurora calls,
And all the living landscape moves around.

But see, the flushed horizon flames intense

With vivid red, in rich profusion streamed

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O'er Heaven's pure arch. At once the clouds assume
Their gayest liveries; these with silvery beams

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Fringed lovely, splendid those in liquid gold,

And speak their sovereign's state. He comes; behold!
Fountain of light and color, warmth and life!
The king of Glory!-round his head divine,
Diffusive showers of radiance circling flow,
As o'er the Indian wave up rising fair,
He looks abroad on Nature; and invests,
Where'er his universal eye surveys,
Her ample bosom, earth, air, sea, and sky,

In one bright robe with heavenly tinctures gay.

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From this hoar hill, that climbs above the plain,
Half way up heaven, ambitious, brown with woods
Of broadest shade, and terraced round with walks
Winding and wild, that deep embowering rise,
Maze above maze, through all its sheltered height;
From thence the aerial concave without cloud,
Translucent, and in purest azure dressed;

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The boundless scene beneath, hill, dale, and plain;
The precipice abrupt; the distant deep,

Whose shores remurmur to the sounding surge;

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The nearest forest in wide circuit spread,

Solemn recess! whose solitary walks

Fair Truth and Wisdom love; the bordering lawn,
With flocks and herds enriched; the daisied vale;
The river's crystal, and the meadow's green
Grateful diversity!-allure the eye
Abroad, to rove amid ten thousand charms.

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These scenes, where every Virtue, every Muse,

Delighted range, serene the soul, and lift,

Borne on Devotion's wing, beyond the pole,

First source of all things lovely, all things good,

Eternal, Infinite! before whose throne

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To highest Heaven, her thought, to Nature's God,

Sits Sovereign Bounty, and through heaven and earth

Ceaseless diffuses plenitude of bliss.

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Him all things own; he speaks, and it is day:

Obedient to his nod alternate night

Obscures the world: the seasons at his call,

Succeed in train, and lead the year around.

While reason thus, and rapture fill the heart,

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Friends of mankind, good angels, hovering near,

Their holy influence, deep infusing, lend;

And in still whispers, soft as Zephyr's breath,

When scarce the green leaf trembles, through her powers Inspire new vigor, purer light supply,

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And kindle every virtue into flame.

Celestial intercourse! superior bliss,

Which vice ne'er knew! health of the enlivened soul,
And heaven on earth begun!

EXERCISE XIX.

Trust in God.-WORDSWORTH.

How beautiful this dome of sky!
And the vast hills, in fluctuation fixed

At thy command, how awful! Shall the soul,

Human and rational, report of Thee

Even less than these? Be mute who will, who can,
Yet I will praise Thee with impassioned voice:
My lips that may forget Thee in the crowd,
Cannot forget Thee here, where thou hast built,
For thy own glory in the wilderness.

Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine,

In such a temple as we now behold

Reared for Thy presence; therefore am I bound
To worship here - and everywhere — as one

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Not doomed to ignorance, though forced to tread,
From childhood up, the ways of poverty

From unreflecting ignorance preserved,

And from debasement rescued. By Thy grace
The particle divine remained unquenched;
And, mid the wild weeds of a rugged soil,
Thy bounty caused to flourish deathless flowers,
From Paradise transplanted. Wintry age
Impends; the frost will gather round my heart;
And if they wither, I am worse than dead.

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Come labor, when the worn-out frame requires
Perpetual sabbath; come disease and want,

And sad exclusion through decay of sense;
But leave me unabated trust in Thee;
And let Thy favor, to the end of life,

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Inspire me with ability to seek

Repose and hope among eternal things, —

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Father of heaven and earth! and I am rich,

And will possess my portion in content.

And what are things eternal? - Powers depart,

Possessions vanish, and opinions change,

And passions hold a fluctuating seat:

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But by the storms of circumstance unshaken,
And subject neither to eclipse nor wane,

Duty exists;-immutably survive,

For our support, the measures and the forms,
Which an abstract Intelligence supplies;

Whose kingdom is where time and space are not:
Of other converse, which mind, soul, and heart,
Do, with united urgency, require,

What more, that may not perish? Thou, dread Source,
Prime, self-existing Cause and End of all,

That, in the scale of being, fill their place,

Above all human region, or below,

Set and sustained; — Thou,

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who didst wrap the cloud

Of infancy around us, that Thyself,

Therein, with our simplicity awhile,

Might'st hold, on earth, communion undisturbed, -
Who, from the anarchy of dreaming sleep,
Or from its death-like void, with punctual care,
And touch as gentle as the morning light,
Restorest us, daily, to the powers of sense,
And reason's steadfast rule,

Art everlasting.

Thou, Thou alone,

This universe shall pass away,

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Glorious! because the shadow of Thy might, -
A step, or link, for intercourse with Thee.
Ah! if the time must come, in which my feet
No more shall stray where meditation leads,
By flowing stream, through wood, or craggy wild,
Loved haunts like these, the unimprisoned mind
May yet have scope to range among her own,
Her thoughts, her images, her high desires.

If the dear faculty of sight should fail,
Still it may be allowed me to remember
What visionary powers of eye and soul,

In youth, were mine; when stationed on the top
Of some huge hill, expectant, I beheld

The sun rise up, from distant climes returned,
Darkness to chase, and sleep, and bring the day,
His bounteous gift! or saw him, towards the deep
Sink, with a retinue of flaming clouds
Attended! Then my spirit was entranced

With joy exalted to beatitude;

The measure of my soul was filled with bliss,
And holiest love; as earth, sea, air, with light,

With pomp, with glory, with magnificence!

EXERCISE XX.

Happiness sought in Wealth.-POLLOK.

Gold many hunted, sweat and bled for gold;
Waked all the night, and labored all the day.
And what was this allurement dost thou ask?
A dust dug from the bowels of the earth,
Which, being cast into the fire, came out
A shining thing that fools admired, and called

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