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How faint is language when we strive to sing The beauties of the Almighty hand! Each year upon our outward sense they win, With all increasing and still varying force; The seasons, days, months, years, incessant bring Contrasting changes! First seeds, leaves, expand As the young years with tender warmth begin, Then bloom and fruit, and life bursts from its source, In animated Nature, then decays, And with revolving time is still renew’d. Thus hope’s bright beam the distant scene displays Where no repelling shadow’s may intrude; So life may joyous be, and genius dwells In new awaked fires, and fresh enchantment spells.
How faint is language when we strive to sing The beauties of the Almighty hand! Each year upon our outward sense they win, With all increasing and still varying force; The seasons, days, months, years, incessant bring Contrasting changes! First seeds, leaves, expand As the young years with tender warmth begin, Then bloom and fruit, and life bursts from its source, In animated Nature, then decays, And with revolving time is still renew’d. Thus hope’s bright beam the distant scene displays Where no repelling shadow’s may intrude; So life may joyous be, and genius dwells In new awaked fires, and fresh enchantment spells.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Sir E. Brydges (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 416 · printed citation: Sir E. Brydges · subject: NATURE
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