XXIII. THE SAME, CONTINUED. THE love of all things springs from love of one; The sky-like spirit of God; a hope begun 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 And of a beauty fadeless and eterne ; 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, Whence glory-winged things to Heaven have flown: While she in glorious madness doth forecast 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. 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. |