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Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed,—
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.
The Pelican Island (1827)
Night is the time to weep,
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory where sleep
The joys of other years.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
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