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Contending Passions jostle and displace And tilt and tourney mostly in the Face: * * * * * Unmatched by Art, upon this wondrous scroll Portrayed are all the secrets of the soul. - [Face] Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below? - [Eternity] Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates. - [Death] None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He dares confront the time, And speak the truth, and give the world no rest No kingly threat can cowardize his breath, He with majestic step goes forth to meet his death. - [Courage] O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft. - [Women] O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem! With dazzling pomp descending angels sung Good will and peace to men, to God due praise, Who on the errand of salvation sent Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity Essential part, made flesh that mad'st all worlds. - [Christmas] O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most. - [Love of Country] So many great nobles, things, administrations, So many high chieftains, so many brave nations, So many proud princes, and powers so splendid, In a moment, a twinkling, all utterly ended. - [Change] The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore. - [Grave] To legislate each duty, were to count Drops of a stream that issue from one fount. God gives, since all effects are in their cause, For narrow prescripts universal laws. - [Cause] True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise. - [Love] 'Twas not the fading charms of face That riveted Love's golden chain; It was the high celestial grace Of goodness that doth never wane-- Whose are the sweets that never pall, Delicious, pure, and crowning all. - [Beauty] We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free. - [Freedom] Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surprise Flash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed? - [Blushes] Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound. - Man, the Microcosm; and the Cosmos (p. 51) [Hearing] Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing! - The Microcosm and other Poems (p. 191) [Flags]
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