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. 1866 Excerpt: ...for such a boundless debt, Deputes their suffring brothers to receive! And, if deep human guilt in payment fails; As deeper guilt prohibits our despair! Enjoins it, as our duty, to rejoice! And (to close all) omnipotently kind, Takes his delights among the sons of men." W hat words are these--And did they comefrom ...
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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. 1866 Excerpt: ...for such a boundless debt, Deputes their suffring brothers to receive! And, if deep human guilt in payment fails; As deeper guilt prohibits our despair! Enjoins it, as our duty, to rejoice! And (to close all) omnipotently kind, Takes his delights among the sons of men." W hat words are these--And did they comefrom heaven? And were they spoke to man? to guilty man? What are all mysteries to love like this? The songs of angels, all the melodies Of choral gods, are wafted in the sound; Heal and exhilarate the broken heart; Though plunged, before, in horrors dark as night: Rich prelibation of consummate joy! Nor wait we dissolution to be blest. This final effort of the moral muse, How justly titled? Nor for me alone: For all that read; what spirit of support, What heights of consolation, crown my song! Then farewell night! Of darkness, now, no more: Joy breaks--shines--triumphs; 'tis eternal day. Shall that which rises out of nought complain Of a few evils, paid with endless joys? My soul! henceforth, in sweetest union join The two supports of human happiness, Which some, erroneous, think can never meet; True taste of life, and constant thought of death! The thought of death, sole victor of its dread! Hope, be thy joy; and probity thy skill; Thy patron he, whose diadem has dropp'd Yon gems of heaven; eternity, thy prize: And leave the racers of the world their own, Their feather, and their froth, for endless toils: They part with all for that which is not bread; They mortify, they starve, on wealth, fame, power; And laugh to scorn the fools that aim at more. How must a spirit, late escaped from earth, Suppose Philanders, Lucia's or Narcissa's, The truth of things new-blazing in its eye, Look back, astonished, on the ways of men, Whose lives' whole drift is...
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