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Far from mortal cares retreating,
Sordid hopes and vain desires,
Here, our willing footsteps meeting,
Every heart to heaven aspires.

— Jane Taylor

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Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do!

Oh that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I am taught.

I thank the goodness and the grace
Which on my birth have smiled,
And made me in these Christian days,
A happy English child.

Are we not children, all of us?

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