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What's hallow'd ground? Has earth a clod
Its Maker mean'd not should be trod
By man, the image of his God,
Erect and free,
Unscourged by Superstition's rod
To bow the knee.

— Thomas Campbell

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

The Pleasures of Hope (1799)

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

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

Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)

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

The Pleasures of Hope (1799)

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

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

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