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Is there a heart that beats and lives, To which no joy the Spring-time gives? Alas! in that unfeeling heart Nor love nor kindliness has part; Or chilling want, or pining care Must brood, or comfortless despair. Blest, who without profane alloy Can revel in that blameless joy! More blest, in every welcome hour, If Spring-time smile, or winter lower, Who round him scatter’d hears or sees What still the excursive sense may please; Who round him finds, perchance unsought, Fresh matter for improving thought; And more, the more he looks abroad, Marks, owns, and loves the present God!
Is there a heart that beats and lives, To which no joy the Spring-time gives? Alas! in that unfeeling heart Nor love nor kindliness has part; Or chilling want, or pining care Must brood, or comfortless despair. Blest, who without profane alloy Can revel in that blameless joy! More blest, in every welcome hour, If Spring-time smile, or winter lower, Who round him scatter’d hears or sees What still the excursive sense may please; Who round him finds, perchance unsought, Fresh matter for improving thought; And more, the more he looks abroad, Marks, owns, and loves the present God!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop Mant (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 529 · printed citation: Bishop Mant · subject: SEASONS
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