'Tis true, of old the unchanging sun
His daily course refused to run,
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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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I thought to meet no more, so dreary seem'd
Death's interposing veil, and thou so pure,
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The voice that breathed o'er Eden,
That earliest wedding day
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Blest are the pure in heart,
For they shall see our God;
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"O holy mountain of my God,
"How do thy towers in ruin lie,
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Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,
It is not night if Thou be near;
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Ye whose hearts are beating high
With the pulse of Poesy,
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We were not by when Jesus came,
But round us, far and near,
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The mid-day sun, with fiercest glare,
Broods o'er the hazy twinkling air:
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Who is God's chosen priest?
He, who on Christ stands waiting day and night,
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Oh! Thou who deign'st to sympathise
With all our frail and fleshly ties,
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Oh! who shall dare in this frail scene
On holiest happiest thoughts to lean,
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Dear is the morning gale of spring,
And dear th' autumnal eve;
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The world's a room of sickness, where each heart
Knows its own anguish and unrest;
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Twice in her season of decay
The fallen Church hath felt Elijah's eye
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'Tis gone, that bright and orbed blaze,
Fast fading from our wistful gaze;
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Awake--again the Gospel-trump is blown -
From year to year it swells with louder tone,
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Not till the freezing blast is still,
Till freely leaps the sparkling rill,
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What went ye out to see
O'er the rude sandy lea,
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Of the bright things in earth and air
How little can the heart embrace!
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What sudden blaze of song
Spreads o'er th' expanse of Heaven?
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As rays around the source of light
Stream upward ere he glow in sight,
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Say, ye celestial guards, who wait
In Bethlehem, round the Saviour's palace gate,
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When in my silent solitary walk,
I sought a strain not all unworthy Thee,
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Hues of the rich unfolding morn,
That, ere the glorious sun be born,
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The year begins with Thee,
And Thou beginn'st with woe,
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And wilt thou hear the fevered heart
To Thee in silence cry?
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