On Sinai's top, in prayer and trance,
Full forty nights and forty days
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The morning mist is cleared away,
Yet still the face of Heaven is grey,
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Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved,
Watch by Thine own forgiven friend;
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O Youth and Joy, your airy tread
Too lightly springs by Sorrow's bed,
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Red o’er the forest peers the setting sun;
The line of yellow light dies fast away
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We were not by when Jesus came,
But round us, far and near,
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See Lucifer like lightning fall,
Dashed from his throne of pride;
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In troublous days of anguish and rebuke,
While sadly round them Israel's children look,
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The bright-haired morn is glowing
O'er emerald meadows gay,
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Oh! who shall dare in this frail scene
On holiest happiest thoughts to lean,
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Since all that is not Heaven must fade,
Light be the hand of Ruin laid
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Seest thou, how tearful and alone,
And drooping like a wounded dove,
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Foe of mankind! too bold thy race:
Thou runn'st at such a reckless pace,
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When Nature tries her finest touch,
Weaving her vernal wreath,
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It was not then a poet's dream,
An idle vaunt of song,
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Red o'er the forest peers the setting sun,
The line of yellow light dies fast away
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Why should we faint and fear to live alone,
Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,
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Oh! Thou who deign'st to sympathise
With all our frail and fleshly ties,
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Ye hermits blest, ye holy maids,
The nearest Heaven on earth,
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Well may I guess and feel
Why Autumn should be sad;
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Creator, Saviour, strengthening Guide,
Now on Thy mercy's ocean wide
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Why doth my Saviour weep
At sight of Sion's bowers?
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When brothers part for manhood's race,
What gift may most endearing prove
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Who is God's chosen priest?
He, who on Christ stands waiting day and night,
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The world's a room of sickness, where each heart
Knows its own anguish and unrest;
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Sit down and take thy fill of joy
At God's right hand, a bidden guest,
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Two clouds before the summer gale
In equal race fleet o'er the sky:
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