WE live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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Behold us spiritwise in heaven; unite
In angel worship of the infinite God
World destinative. Evil, all tempting, man
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Once in days of yore a little Princess, who had summers seen
Scarcely seven, and was christened by the holy name Christine,
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Hark! 'tis the passing bell;
While the soul is on its way,
While it waves its upward wings,
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Thence earthward tending, first we make the sun;
Where, as at rest in light, a mediate point,
A bright effect original of God,
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I LOVED her for that she was beautiful;
And that to me she seem'd to be all Nature,
And all varieties of things in one:
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THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD is the wisdom of man—
This is the end of Being, wisdom; this
Of wisdom, action; and of action, rest;
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Soul solemnized by dear one's death, belief
In heavenly life confirmed of reason finds.
Here round her bier they meet who several rule,
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The eternal all--sire from his throne, our isle
Regarding; these Imperial shores, the while
Earth's orb rolls round, shewn, eminent in his eye,
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All man's acts,
Serious or trivial, all man's thoughts perchance
Pass not unmarked of angel eye, or God's.
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