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Thou hast crossed over torrents, and swung through wide-spreading ocean,–
That thou might’st see me from near, and learn to value my beauty,Which the voice of renown spreads through the wandering world.And now before me thou standest,–canst touch my altar so holy,–But art thou nearer to me, or am I nearer to thee?
Fast, in its prison-walls of earth,
Up, comrades, up, and aid the birthThe bell that shall be born to-day!Who would honor obtain,With the sweat and the pain,The praise that man gives to the master must buy.–But the blessing withal must descend from on high!And well an earnest word beseemsThe work the earnest hand prepares;Its load more light the labor deems,When sweet…
Which religion do I acknowledge?
‘None that I name? And why so? ‘-Why, for religion’s own sake?
She sought to breathe one word, but vainly;
And yet my timid glance read plainlyThe language of her speaking eye.Thy silent glades my footstep presses,Thou fair and leaf-embosomed grove!Conceal within thy green recessesFrom mortal eye our sacred love!Afar with strange discordant noises,The busy day is echoing;And ‘mid the hollow hum of voices,I hear the heavy hammer ring.‘Tis thus that man, with toil ne’er…
That which I learned from the Deity,-
Meekly and gratefully now, here I suspend in his shrine.