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But one stood beside me whose presence repress'd The deep pang of sorrow that troubled my breast; And the babe on my bosom so calmly reclining, Check'd the tears as they rose, and all useless repining. Hard indeed was the struggle, from thee forced to roam; But for their sakes I quitted both country and home. Bless'd Isle of the Free!
Saint Swithin's Chair On Hallow-Mass Eve, ere ye boune ye to rest, Ever beware that your couch be bless'd; Sign it with cross, and sain it with bead, Sing the Ave, and say the Creed. For on Hallow-Mass Eve the Night-Hag will ride, And all her nine-fold sweeping on by her side, Whether the wind sing lowly or loud, Sailing through moonshine or swath'd in the cloud.
Here then a quatrain of Phrynichus long ago to one of old Athens' favorites: Thrice-happy Sophocles! in good old age, Bless'd as a man, and as a craftsman bless'd, He died; his many tragedies were fair, And fair his end, nor knew he any sorrow.
He liv'd a patriarch in his numerous race, And show'd in charity a Christian's grace: Whate'er a friend or parent feels, he knew; His hand was open, and his heart was true; In what he gain'd and gave, he taught mankind, A grateful always is a generous mind. Here rest his clay! his soul must ever rest; Who bless'd when living, dying must be blest.
And down the shining stream, They launch their buoyant skiff, Bless'd, if they may but trust hope's dream, But ah! Truth echoes "If!" If health be firm if friend be true If self be well-controlled, If tastes be pure if wants be few And not too often told If reason always rule the heart If passion own its sway If love for aye to life impart The zest it does to-day
I remember how I saw, with an indescribable conflict of feelings, the ranked graves of the soldiers in the cemetery at Arlington, and recollected that this very ground had been taken from General Lee, that heroic opponent of Federal authority and read the tablet, "How sleep the brave who sink to rest by all their country's wishes bless'd," and bowed in spirit to the nation's benediction upon the men who had upheld its power.
Great pains will moreover be taken to cultivate the domestic habits and affections, as the poet says: "'Man may for wealth and glory roam, But woman must be bless'd at home; To this should all her studies tend, This her great object, and her end.
" 'Mamma, said the child, with streaming eyes, My father has gone above the skies; And you tell me this world is mean and base Compared with heaven that blessed place. " 'My daughter, I know I believe it all I would not his spirit to earth recal. The bless'd one he his storm was brief Mine, a long tempest of tears and grief.
I never so deeply felt the pathetic as in that part, "A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware." It stung me into high pleasure through sufferings. Lloyd does not like it; his head is too metaphysical, and your taste too correct, at least I must allege something against you both, to excuse my own dotage,
If Providence, with parent care, Mete out the varying lot While meek contentment bows to share, The palace, or the cot And oh! if Faith, sublime and clear, The spirit upwards guide Then bless'd indeed, and bless'd for ever, The bridegroom and the bride! "EVER, evermore!" repeated a young man, bending with a smile over the fair face that rested on his breast.
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