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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK II. There is a God the Universe exclaims; There is a God the heart of Man replies; And round the world that mighty answer rolls - And thus Creation, while the spirit throbs In full response to her sublime appeal, Can teach the mind imagination's creed, Till all her splendours to the soul become The faint reflections of a vast UNSEEN,1 Yet vainly beautiful the god of Earth, Whom Nature's worship for the soul creates: Our homage is material; and the mind, While in the light of elemental pomp It lives and moves, may still her darkness keep, Unvisited by that perpetual ray Of hope divine, from revelation born. There is a haunt, whose quietude of scene Accordeth well with hours of solemn hue, ? A churchyard, buried in a beauteous vale, Besprinkled o'er with green and countless graves, And mossy tombs of unambitious pomp Decaying into dust again. No step Of mirth, no laughter of unfeeling life Amid the calm of death, that spot profanes; The skies o'erarch it with serenest love; The winds, when visiting the dark-bough'd elms, An airy anthem sing; and birds and bees, That in their innocence of summer joy, Exult and carol with commingling glee, But add to Solitude the lull of sound: There is an ocean, ?but his unheard waves By noon entranced, in dreaming slumber lie; Or when the passion of a loud-wingd gale Hath kindled them with sound, the stormy tone Of waters, mellow'd into music, dies, Like that which echoes from the world afar, Or lingers round the path of perish'd years And here, companion'd by his soul alone, A being, whose unfathom'd spirit fought With loneliness, did wander oft, and muse His hours away; while dream-wove spells entwined Their myst'ry round him;?if the tomb its dead Surrender'd, well might he arise and speak, How frail the creed whi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217094382 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217094384 |
| Weight | 0.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 214 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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