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Oh ye who all life's energies combine	A
The fadeless laurel round your brows to twine	A
Pause but one moment in your brief career	B
Nor seek for glory in a mortal sphere	B
Can figures traced upon the shifting sand	C
Washed by the mighty tide its force withstand	C
Time's stern resistless torrent onward flows	D
The restless waves above your labours close	E
And He who bids the bounding billows roll	F
Sweeps out the feeble record from the soul	F
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The glorious hues that flush the evening sky	G
Melt into night and on her bosom die	G
Through the wide fields of heaven's immensity	G
The gold tipped billows of that crimson sea	H
Flash on the awe struck gazer's dazzled sight	G
The rich out gushings from the fount of light	G
Yet oft concealed beneath that splendid form	I
We hail the herald of the coming storm	I
The fiery spirit over half a globe	J
Spreads the bright tissue of his beamy robe	J
And ere the day king veils his glowing crest	G
Shrouds the dark tempest in his burning vest	G
O'er earth and heaven his gorgeous banner flings	K
And gilds with borrowed light his sable wings	K
And those who view with rapture lifted eyes	L
The short lived pageant of the summer skies	L
Behold it vanish like a fearful dream	M
And death and desolation mar its beam	M
So when we seek above life's sea of tears	N
To raise a monument for future years	O
If built on earth the fabric will decay	P
Oblivion's hand will sweep the pile away	P
The proudest trophies of the mightiest mind	G
Fade in her grasp nor leave a wreck behind	G
She o'er earth's ruins spreads her misty pall	Q
And time's unsparing ocean swallows all	R
Hope for a moment gilds the spoiler's shroud	G
As parting sunbeams tinge the lurid cloud	G
The transient glory cheats the gazer's sight	G
The storm rolls on 'tis universal night	G
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Say did not man inherit at his birth	S
A higher promise than the things of earth	S
Views more exalted than this world can give	T
And hopes that deathless as the soul outlive	T
The wreck of nature and the common doom	U
That hourly sweeps her myriads to the tomb	U
His mental powers unfettered by the clod	G
Soar o'er time's gulf and reach the throne of God	G
Oh what a privilege it is to know	V
That death chains not the immortal soul below	V
Through the dark portals of the grave upborne	V
Leaving the care worn sons of earth to mourn	V
On wings of light the new born spirit flies	L
To seek a home and kindred in the skies	L
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Oh what are earthly crowns and earthly bliss	W
And pride's delusive dreams compared with this	W
Ambition's laurel purchased with a flood	G
Of human tears and stained with kindred blood	G
Once gained converted to a crown of thorns	X
Pierces the aching temples it adorns	X
Not Sappho's lyre nor Raphael's deathless art	G
Can twine the olive round the bleeding heart	G
In heaven alone the promised blessing lies	L
And those who seek must seek it in the skies	L
Seek it through Him who humbling human pride	G
Wept o'er man's fall and for his ransom died	G
Poured out his blood on the accursed tree	H
To break the chain and set the captive free	H
Heaven bowed its glory on the cross to teach	Y
That greatness man's lost nature could not reach	Y
The true humility which stoops to rise	L
And leaving earth claims kindred with the skies	L
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How many pages have been blotted o'er	Z
With heartfelt tears that now are read no more	A2
And like the eyes that long have ceased to weep	B2
In dust and darkness quite forgotten sleep	B2
Dead to the world as if they ne'er had been	V
The favoured actors in one little scene	V
The scene is changed and like their fleeting fame	C2
The fickle world adores another name	C2
They knew the price at which its praise was bought	G
The glittering bauble was not worth a thought	G
Yet Esau like a better birthright sold	G
And for base counterfeit exchanged the gold	G
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Ere man presumptuously his genius boasts	D2
Let him reflect upon the countless hosts	D2
The untold myriads of each age and clime	C2
That sleep forgotten in the grave of time	C2
What were their names Go ask the silent sod	G
Their deeds their record lives but with their God	G
At every step we tread on kindred earth	S
Nor know the spot that gave our fathers birth	S
Oh could we call before our wondering eyes	L
All that have lived and bid the dead arise	L
From the first moment the Creator spoke	E2
The word of power and light through darkness broke	E2
And see earth covered with the mighty tide	G
Of all who on her bosom lived and died	G
What a stupendous thought would fill the soul	F
Could we behold life's breathing ocean roll	F
Its human billows onward and the mass	F2
The grave has swallowed down from Adam pass	F2
In one unbroken stream the brain would reel	G2
Lost in immensity would cease to feel	G2
Whilst living ah how few were known to fame	C2
One in a million has not left a name	C2
A single token on life's shifting scene	V
To tell to other years that such has been	V
Yet man unaided by a hope sublime	C2
Thinks that his puny arm can cope with time	C2
That his vast genius can reverse the doom	C2
And shed a deathless light upon his tomb	C2
That distant ages shall his worth admire	H2
And young hearts kindle at the sacred fire	Z
Of him whose fame no envious clouds o'ercast	G
Yet died forgotten and unknown at last	G
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Oh think not genius with its hallowed light	G
Can break the gloom of an eternal night	G
For splendid talents often lead astray	P
The unguarded heart and hide the narrow way	P
While the unlearned and those of low estate	G
With faith's clear eye behold the living gate	G
Whose portals open on the shoreless sea	H
Where time's strong ocean meets eternity	H
Across the gulf that stretches far beneath	I2
Lies the dark valley of the shade of death	J2
A land of deep forgetfulness a shore	A2
Which all must traverse but return no more	A2
To this sad earth to dissipate our dread	G
And tell the mighty secrets of the dead	G
Enough for us that those drear realms were trod	G
By heavenly footsteps that the Son of God	G
Passed the dark bourne and vanquished Death to save	K2
The weary wanderers of life's stormy wave	K2
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Why then should man thus cleave to things of earth	S
Daily experience proves their little worth	S
Or waste those noble qualities of mind	G
For wise and better purposes designed	G
In the pursuit of trifles which confer	Z
No solid pleasure on their worshipper	Z
Or in the search of causes that are known	V
And guided by Omnipotence alone	V
A height his finite reason cannot reach	Y
And all his boasted learning fails to teach	Y
While the bewildering thought overwhelms his brain	V
Death comes to prove his speculations vain	V
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Is he deserving of a better doom	C2
Who will not raise a hope beyond the tomb	C2
Who quite enamoured with his fallen state	G
Clings to the world and leaves the rest to fate	G
Prefers corruption to his Maker's smile	L2
And shuns the light because his deeds are vile	L2
The man who feels the value of his soul	F
Presses unwearied towards a higher goal	F
Leaving this earth he seeks a brighter prize	L
And claims a crown immortal in the skies	L
The child of pleasure may despise his aim	C2
And heap reproach upon the Christian's name	C2
May laugh his faith as foolishness to scorn	V
These by the man of God are meekly borne	V
His glorious hope no infidel can shake	M2
He suffers calmly for his Saviour's sake	M2
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The world's poor votary seeks in vain for peace	N2
He cannot bid the voice of conscience cease	N2
Its dire upbraidings in his heartless course	O2
He meets at every turn the fiend Remorse	O2
Who glares upon him with her tearless eye	G
That sears his heart but mocks its agony	H
He hears that voice amid the festive throng	P2
Speak in the dance and murmur in the song	P2
A death bell pealing in the midnight chime	C2
Whose awful tones proclaim the lapse of time	C2
And e'en the winged moments as they fly	G
Seem to proclaim Rash mortal thou must die	G
Soon must thou tread the path thy fathers trod	G
And stand before the judgment seat of God	G
He hears but seeks in pleasure's cup to drown	V
The dread that weighs his ardent spirit down	V
Derides the warning voice in mercy sent	G
Rejects the thought of after punishment	G
In folly's vortex wastes the spring of youth	Q2
Nor till death summons owns the awful truth	Q2
Feels it too late to calm the agonies	R2
Remorse has kindled and despairing dies	L
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But in the breast where true religion reigns	S2
There is a balm for all these mental pains	S2
A sweet contentment felt but undefined	G
A full and free surrender of the mind	G
To its divine original a trust	G
Which lifts to heaven the dweller of the dust	G
The pilgrim glowing with a hope divine	V
Counts not the distance to the heavenly shrine	V
He meets with guardian spirits on the road	G
Who cheer his steps and ease his heavy load	G
Serenely journeying to a better clime	C2
He does not shudder at the lapse of time	C2
But calmly drinks the cup of mortal woe	V
And finds that peace the world cannot bestow	V
That promised joy which brightens all beneath	I2
And smooths his pillow on the bed of death	J2
That perfect love which casteth out all fear	Z
And wafts his spirit to a happier sphere	Z
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Fame is a dream the praise of man as brief	T2
As morning dew upon the folded leaf	T2
The summer sun exhales the pearly tear	Z
And leaves no trace of its existence there	Z
Seek not for immortality below	V
But fix your hopes beyond this vale of woe	V
That when oblivion gathers round thy sod	G
A lasting record may be found with God	G