Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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