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Methinks when I stand in life's sunset,
As I stood when we parted at school,
I shall see the bright faces of children
I loved in the village of Yule.

— Hezekiah Butterworth

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Imagination makes poems; devotion makes hymns. There can be poetry without emotion, but a hymn never.

Reads again the words puissant, "All men are created free,"
Claims again for man his birthright, claims the world's equality.

One taper lights a thousand,
Yet shines as it has shone;
And the humblest light may kindle
A brighter than its own.
Between a man of peace and war.

Lovely land of Palestina! he thy shores will never see,
But, his dream fulfilled, he follows Him who walked in Galilee.

The war's red flames,
Charging Tarleton, proud Cornwallis, navies moving on the James.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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