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Strange That A Harp Of Thousand Strings Should Keep In Tune So Long!
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Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long!
-- Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
-- Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book ii, Hymn 19
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Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
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The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
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So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by tu
And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain....
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Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain....
And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return.
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Fly, like a youthful hart or roe, Over the hills where spices grow.
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When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I 'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
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Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul
The mind 's the standard of the man....
But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise
Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes....