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XXIII.

THE SAME, CONTINUED.

THE love of all things springs from love of one;
Wider the soul's horizon hourly grows,
And over it with fuller glory flows

The sky-like spirit of God; a hope begun
In doubt and darkness 'neath a fairer sun
Cometh to fruitage, if it be of Truth ;

And to the law of meekness, faith, and ruth,

By inward sympathy, shall all be won:

This thou shouldst know, who, from the painted feature

Of shifting Fashion, couldst thy brethren turn
Unto the love of ever-youthful Nature,

And of a beauty fadeless and eterne ;
And always 't is the saddest sight to see

An old man faithless in Humanity.

XXV.

THE SAME, CONTINUED.

THEREFORE think not the Past is wise alone,

For Yesterday knows nothing of the Best,
And thou shalt love it only as the nest

Whence glory-winged things to Heaven have flown:
To the great Soul alone are all things known;
Present and future are to her as past,

While she in glorious madness doth forecast
That perfect bud, which seems a flower full-blown
To each new Prophet, and yet always opes
Fuller and fuller with each day and hour,
Heartening the soul with odor of fresh hopes,
And longings high, and gushings of wide power,
Yet never is or shall be fully blown

Save in the forethought of the Eternal One.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by

JOHN OWEN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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ΤΟ

MY FATHER,

CHARLES LOWELL, D. D.,

WHOM, IF I HAD NOT THE

HIGHER PRIVILEGE OF REVERING AS A PARENT,

I SHOULD STILL HAVE

HONORED AS A MAN AND LOVED AS A FRIEND, THIS VOLUME,

CONTAINING MANY OPINIONS FROM WHICH HE WILL WHOLLY,

YET WITH THE

LARGE CHARITY OF A CHRISTIAN HEART, DISSENT,

IS INSCRIBED, BY HIS

YOUNGEST CHILD.

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