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och you and only you soggarth aroon
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now whispers relief to the bosom of pain and the hair that was shining with diamond and pearl is wet with the tears of the penitent girl
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and is mine one said abou nay not so
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with dovelike wings peace o'er yon village broods the dizzying mill-wheel rests the anvil's din hath ceased all all around is quietness
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and when refreshed the soul once more puts on new life and power oh let thine image lord alone gild the first waking hour
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shine out true light to guide my way amid that deepening gloom and rise o morning star the first that dayspring to illume
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shall these glad things arise to verify thy word and bless our wandering eyes
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when brightly shines the prosperous day be thoughts of thee a cloudy screen to temper the deceitful ray
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o father grant thy love divine to make these mystic temples thine
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which whyle thou lyvest shall nat let the want that thou desyrest justly for thy syrvyce and than after gyve the the joyes of paradyse
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thou art not he who yesterday sat here and begged beside the way for he was blind
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their words passed by him like the wind which raves and howls but cannot shock the hundred-fathom-rooted rock
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not that amassing flowers youth sighed which rose make ours which lily leave and then as best recall
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not that admiring stars it yearned nor jove nor mars mine be some figured flame which blends transcends them all
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not for such hopes and fears annulling youth's brief years do i remonstrate folly wide the mark
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rather i prize the doubt low kinds exist without finished and finite clods untroubled by a spark
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rejoice we are allied to that which doth provide and not partake effect and not receive
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a spark disturbs our clod nearer we hold of god who gives than of his tribes that take i must believe
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then welcome each rebuff that turns earth's smoothness rough each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go
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what is he but a brute whose flesh hath soul to suit whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play
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to man propose this test thy body at its best how far can that project thy soul on its lone way
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as the bird wings and sings let us cry all good things are ours nor soul helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul
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be there for once and all severed great minds from small announced to each his station in the past
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what though the earlier grooves which ran the laughing loves around thy base no longer pause and press
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what though about thy rim scull-things in order grim grow out in graver mood obey the sterner stress
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religion relates to life and the life of religion is to do good swedenborg
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have i not lord gone day by day where thy poor children dwell and carried help and gold and food
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have i not watched and wept she cried did thy dear saints do more
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consume and cleanse the sin that lingers still within its depths let heavenly love begin
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so we inherit that sweet purity for which we struggled failed and agonized with widening retrospect that bred despair
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this is life to come which martyred men have made more glorious for us who strive to follow
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an infant crying in the night an infant crying for the light and with no language but a cry
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look forth again it must be near the hour dost thou not see the snowy mountain copes and the green woods beneath them on the slopes
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i did and going did a rainbow note surely thought i this is the lace of peace's coat
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the weary day is at its zenith still yet 't is as if beside some cool clear rill through shadowy stillness rose an evening psalm
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while inly rose the sense in swelling tide of weakness insufficiency and sin and fear and gloom and doubt in mighty flood rolled in
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waters flowed over mine head then i said i am cut off lamentations iii
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that with no middle flight intends to soar above the aonian mount while it pursues things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme
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me who have touched and tasted yet both live and life more perfect have attained than fate meant me by venturing higher than my lot
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god therefore cannot hurt ye and be just not just not god: not feared then nor obeyed your fear itself of death removes the fear
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that ye shall be as gods since i as man internal man is but proportion meet i of brute human ye of human gods
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so ye shall die perhaps by putting off human to put on gods death to be wished though threatened which no worse than this can bring
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some natural tears they dropt but wiped them soon the world was all before them where to choose their place of rest and providence their guide
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and the grave is not its goal dust thou art to dust returnest was not spoken of the soul
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in the world's broad field of battle in the bivouac of life be not like dumb driven cattle
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i slept and dreamed that life was beauty i woke and found that life was duty was then thy dream a shadowy lie
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toil on sad heart courageously and thou shalt find thy dream to be a noonday light and truth to thee
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serene will be our days and bright and happy will our nature be when love is an unerring light
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i call thee: i myself commend unto thy guidance from this hour oh let my weakness have an end
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let not soft slumber close my eyes before i've recollected thrice the train of action through the day
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more pale to see christ hung upon the cruel tree and bore his father's wrath for me
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beneath a rod more heavy christ for my sake trod the wine-press of the wrath of god
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not so christ whose mighty love of me sufficed for strength salvation eucharist
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if i bleed his feet have bled: yea in my need his heart once bled for mine indeed
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so he was young who for my sake in silence hung upon the cross with passion wrung
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he was more fair than men who deigned for me to wear a visage marred beyond compare
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daily bread all else is his who living dead for me lacked where to lay his head
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it was not so to him whose cup did overflow with mine unutterable woe
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when christ would sup he drained the dregs from out my cup so how should i be lifted up
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helpless dust in thee o lord i put my trust answer thou for me wise and just
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witness my god i did yet i am run again upon the score my faults cannot be hid
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'twill be but labor lost my good cannot prevail against mine ill the business will be crost
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and when he is come he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment john xvi
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behold satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat luke xxii
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but noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger
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and conscious still of the divine within them lie on earth supine no longer
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the sun comes up and the sun goes down and day and night are the same as one the year grows green and the year grows brown
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the syrian heard rose up and braced his huge limbs to the accustomed toil my child see how the waters boil
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no more arprobus swerved but gained the farther bank and then a voice cried hence christopheros be
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for carrying thou hast carried me the king of angels and of men the master thou hast served
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the merlin cannot ever soar on high nor greedy greyhound still pursue the chase the tender lark will find a time to fly
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a soul as dauntless 'mid the storm of daily life a heart as warm and pure as breast e'er wore
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who is thine enemy the high in station or in wealth the chief
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a feather which thou mightest cast aside as idly as the blast the light leaf from the tree
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death in the breast's consuming fires to that high nature which aspires forever till thus checked
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these are thine enemies thy worst they chain thee to thy lowly lot thy labor and thy life accursed
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thou art thyself thine enemy the great what better they than thou
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with this and passions under ban true faith and holy trust in god thou art the peer of any man
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or ragg'd to go or show a downcast look and sour
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resort to sermons but to prayers most praying's the end of preaching o be drest
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god calleth preaching folly do not grudge to pick out treasures from an earthen pot
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two went to pray o rather say one went to brag the other to pray
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the strangers' bread with bitter tears we steep and when our weary eyes should sink to sleep in the mute midnight we steal forth to weep
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he passed again and lo the well by summers never dried had cooled ten thousand parching tongues and saved a life besides
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it shone upon a genial mind and lo its light became a lamp of life a beacon ray a monitory flame
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this would i be and would none other be but a religious servant of my god and know there is none other god but he
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and willingly to suffer mercy's rod joy in his grace and live but in his love and seek my bliss but in the world above
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and i would frame a kind of faithful prayer for all estates within the state of grace that careful love might never know despair
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nor servile fear might faithful love deface and this would i both day and night devise to make my humble spirit's exercise
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pray for me o my friend but nathan cried pray thou for me ben isaac
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shall he the searcher of the hidden heart in his eternal and divine decree condemn the woman and forgive the man
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whatever the sins that tripped them god pity them still i say
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only hate from men only remorse to whisper of a life that might have been
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and perhaps their unstained feet were led by a gentle mother toward the golden street
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with earnest heart i ask that your eyes may not look earthward on the failure of your task
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by the great god of heaven it was not my serious meaning it was ne'er resolve
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or that the sun could rising from the west draw his coach backward take from the account of time so many minutes
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held in the mouth that languid fever burns his tasteless food he indolently turns on alba's oldest stock his soul shall pine
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or darkly shadowed forth in dream confused while the damp brow betrays the inward storm before him flits thy aggravated form
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when muttered thunders shake the lurid sky whose deadly paleness now the gloom conceals and now the vivid flash anew reveals
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