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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

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Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

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The planets in their station list'ning stood.

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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Calm of mind, all passion spent.

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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

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And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

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Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

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If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

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