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Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still.

— Reginald Heber

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Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb.

What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile.

When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.

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