This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... And note the hour when temperance and health Yield the pale vigils of the night to wealth? Say, is it vision'd Fancy works the charm, When these blest objects lose their power to warm? Ah! no: --from other sources springs the smart; Its source is here, hard pressing on my Heart. Yes, 'tis the Heart, my friend ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... And note the hour when temperance and health Yield the pale vigils of the night to wealth? Say, is it vision'd Fancy works the charm, When these blest objects lose their power to warm? Ah! no: --from other sources springs the smart; Its source is here, hard pressing on my Heart. Yes, 'tis the Heart, my friend, which rules And turns a gloomy to a cloudless sky; the eye, The soft magician governs ev'ry scene, Blossoms the rock, or desolates the green; Along the heath bids fancied roses blow, And sunshine rise upon a world of snow. Yes, 'tis the Heart endears each smiling plain, Or to his native mountain binds the swain (a); His native mountain where his cottage stands, More lov'd, more dear, than all theneighb'ring lands; For though the blast be keen, the soil be bare, His friends, his wife, his little ones are there. Oh! had the brother of my heart been nigh, When morning threw her mantle o'er the sky; Or when gay noon a gaudier robe display'd, Or modest ev'ning drew her softest shade; Then had the shrubs breath'd forth their full perfume, And, like bis flow'rs, my feelings been in bloom. For still to prove the natural bias right, Should each fair season with each sense unite. The bias Social, man with men must share The varied benefits of earth and air; Life's leading law, my friend, which governs all, To some in large degrees, to some in small; To lowest insects, highest pow'rs, a part Wisely dispens'd to ev'ry beating heart; A due proportion to all creatures given, From the mole's mansion, to the seraph's heav'n. See the wing'd legions which at noontide play, Together clust'riug in the solar ray, There sports the social passion; see, and own, That not an atom takes its flight alone. Th' unweildy monsters of the pregnant deep, The savage herds...
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