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Can all that optics teach, unfold
Thy form to please me so,
As when I dreamt of gems and gold
Hid in thy radiant bow?
When Science from Creation's face
Enchantment's veil withdraws,
What lovely visions yield their place
To cold material laws!
And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams,
But words of the Most High,
Have told why first thy robe of beams
Was woven in the sky.

— Thomas Campbell Theodric: A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825)

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'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

A stoic of the woods—a man without a tear.

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Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name?

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Oh, how hard it is to find
The one just suited to our mind!

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