Ballads for the Times (Now first collected,) Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Bartenus, A Thousand Lines, and other poems. By Martin F. Tupper. A new Edition, enlarged and revised |
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The Happy Man.
A man of no regrets
He goes his sunny way,
Owing the past no load of debts
The present cannot pay:
He wedded his first love
Nor loved another since;
He sets his nobler hopes above;
He reigns in joy a Prince!
He goes his sunny way,
Owing the past no load of debts
The present cannot pay:
He wedded his first love
Nor loved another since;
He sets his nobler hopes above;
He reigns in joy a Prince!
A man of no regrets,
He hath no cares to vex,
No secret griefs, nor mental nets
Nor troubles to perplex:
Forgiveness to his sin,
And help in every need,
Blessings around, and peace within,
Crown him a King indeed!
He hath no cares to vex,
No secret griefs, nor mental nets
Nor troubles to perplex:
Forgiveness to his sin,
And help in every need,
Blessings around, and peace within,
Crown him a King indeed!
A man of no regrets,
Upon his Empire free
The sun of gladness never sets,—
Then who so rich as he?
Yea, God upon my heart
Hath pour'd all blessings down:
Then yield to Him, with all thou art,
The homage of thy crown!
Upon his Empire free
The sun of gladness never sets,—
Then who so rich as he?
Yea, God upon my heart
Hath pour'd all blessings down:
Then yield to Him, with all thou art,
The homage of thy crown!
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