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you, you have always | 7 been a | sad | dog; | 77 | you'll never come to good; | 77 | you'll never be rich; | 777 I leave you | 7 a | shilling, 7 to | buy a halter."|77|77|

"Ah! | father," | 7 cries | Dick, | 7 without | any emotion, | 7" may | Heaven | give you | life and health | 7 to enjoy it your- | self!" | 77 |77|

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A SUMMER EVENING'S MEDITATION.

Mrs. Barbauld.

7 "Tis past; 7 7 the sultry | tyrant of the south 7 |

7 Has | spent his | short-lived | rage. 7 | 77 | 7 More | grateful hours

Move silent on. 7 | 77 | 7 The | skies no more re

pel 7 |

7 The | dazzled | sight; 7|77| But with | mild | maiden | beams 7 |

7 Of temper'd | light, 7 | 7 in- | vite the | cherish'd | eye 7 |

7 To wander o'er their | sphere; 7 | where 7 | hung a- |

loft, 7 |

Dian's | bright | crescent, like a | silver | bow 7 |

New strung in heaven, | lifts | high | 7 its | beamy | horns, 7 |

7 Im- patient for the night, 77 and seems to

push 7 |

7 Her | brother | down the | sky. 7 | 77 | Fair | Venus |

shines 7

Even in the eye of day; 7|7 with | sweetest | beam 7 |

7 Pro- pitious | shines, and | shakes a trembling | flood 7 |

7 Of¦ soften'd | radience | 7 from her | dewy | locks. |

77 | 7 7 |

7 The shadows | spread a pace; 7 | 77 | 7 while | meeken'd | eve, 7 |

7 Her | cheek yet | warm with | blushes, | slow re

tires

Through the Hes- | perian | gardens of the | west, 7 | 7 And | shuts the | gates of | day. 7 | 77 | 7 'Tis | now the hour 7 |

7 When | contem- | plation | 7 (from her | sunless |

haunts,

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7 The cool | damp | grotto, |77|7 or the | lonely |

depth 7 |

7 Of | unpierced | woods, 7 | where, 7 | wrapt in | silent shade, | 77 |

7 She mused a- | way the gaudy | hours of | noon, 7 |

7 And fed on | thoughts | un- | ripen'd by the |

sun,) 7 |

Moves forward; | 7 and with | radiant | finger | points 7 |

7 To yon blue | concave, | swell'd by | breath di- | vine: | 77 |

Where, 7 one by one, the living | eyes of | heaven

7 A- | wake, 7 7 | quick | kindling | 7 o'er the | face of

ether |

One | boundless | blaze; | 7 7 | ten | thousand | trembling fires, 7 |

7 And dancing | lustres, where the un- steady |

eye, 7!

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Restless 7 and | dazzled, | wanders | uncon- | fined 7 | 7 O'er | all this | field of | glories: | spacious | field, 7 | 7 And worthy of the | Master! | he | 7 whose | hand, 7 | 1

7 With hieroglyphics |77| elder than the | Nile, 7 | 7 In- | scribed the | mystic | tablet, | hung on | high 7 | 7 To | public | gaze; | 7 and | said, 7 | 7 A- | dore O | man, 7 |

7 The | finger of thy | God! 7 | 77 | 7 From | what | pure wells

7 Of | milky light, 7 | What | soft | 7 o'er- | flowing

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7 Are | all these | lamps | so | fill'd? 7 | these | friendly

| lamps, 7 |

7 For-ever | streaming | o'er the | azure | deep, | 7 To point our path, 7|7 and | light us to our | home. 7 | 77 | 77 |

7 How soft they | slide a- | long their | lucid | spheres! |

7 And | silent as the | foot of time, 7 | 7 ful- | fil 7 | 7 Their destin'd | courses. | 7 7 | Nature's | self | 7 is | hush'd |

And 7 (but a scatter'd | leaf which | rustles | through 7 !

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7 The thick-wove | foliage,) | not a sound | is |

heard 7 |

7 To | break the | midnight | air : 7 | though the raised

ear, 7 |

7 In- tensely listening, | drinks in | every | breath. 7 | 7777

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How deep the silence, | yet how | loud the | praise ! | 77 | 7 7 |

7 But | are they | silent | all? 7 | 7 or | is there not | 7 A tongue in every | star 77 that talks with A❘ | |

man,

7 And | woos him to be | wise? 7 | 7 nor | woos in | vain : 7 | 77 | 7 7 |

7 This dead of | midnight | 7 is the noon of | thought, 7 |

7 And | wisdom | mounts her | zenith | 7 with the | stars. 7 | 77 | 77 |

7 At this still | hour | 7 the self-col- lected |

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soul 7

Turns | inward, | 7 and be- | holds a | stranger |

there 7

7 Of | high de- | scent, 7 | 7 and | more than | mortal | rank; | 77 |

7 An | embryo | God; 7 | 7 a | spark of | fire di- |

vine, 7 |

Which must burn | on for | ages, | 7 when the | sun 7 |

(Fair | transitory | creature of a | day ?) 7 |

7 Has closed his | wonted | journey | through the | east. | 77 | 7 7 |

Ye | citadels of light, 7 | 7 and | seats of | bliss! 7 | 7 Perhaps my | future | home, 7 | 7 from whence | 7 the soul, 7 |

Revolving periods | past, | 7 may | oft | look |

back, 7 |

With recollected | tenderness, | 7 on | all |

The various busy | scenes she | left be- | low, 7| 7 Its deep-laid | projects, | 7 and its | strange events, 7 |

As on some fond and | doting | tale | 7 that sooth'd | 7 Her | infant | hours. 7 | 77 |O| be it | lawful | now 7] 7 To | tread the | hallow'd | circle | 7 of your|courts, 7| And | 7 (with | mute | wonder | and de- | lighted | awe,) 7!

7 Approach your burning | confines! | Seized in | thought, |

7 On | fancy's | wild and | roving | wing I | sail, 7| 7 From the green | borders | 7 of the | peopled | earth, 7 |

7 And the | pale | moon 7 | 7 her | duteous | fair at- | tendant; | 77 |

7 From | solitary | Mars; | 7 from the | vast | orb | 7 Of | Jupiter, | whose | huge gi- | gantic | bulk 7 | Dances in ether | like the | lightest | leaf; 7 | 77 | 7 To the dim | verge, | 7 the | suburbs of the | system,

7 Where cheerless | Saturn, | midst his | watery |

moons, 7 |

Girt with a | lurid | zone, 7 | 7 in | gloomy | pomp, 7 | Sits like an exiled | monarch. | 7 7 | Fearless | thence 7 | 7 I | launch | into the | trackless | deeps of | space, 7 | Where 7 | burning | round, 7 | ten | thousand | suns | 7 ap- pear 7 |

7 Of elder! beam | 7 which | ask | no | leave to | shine. | 7 Of | our ter- | restrial | star 7 | 7 7 | nor | borrow | light |

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