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The voice that breathed o'er Eden,
That earliest wedding day,
The primal marriage blessing,
It hath not passed away.

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Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken, feels her present God again,
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away.

The Christian Year (1827)

When the shore is won at last,
Who will count the billows past?

The Christian Year (1827)

As fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Lectures on Poetry 1832–1841 (1844)

'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store.

The Christian Year (1827)

The trivial round, the common task,
Would furnish all we ought to ask.

The Christian Year (1827)

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The best way to worship God is to love your wife.

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