Touches on The Harp of Nature in the Same Key as Burns' Grand Anthem. By Henry Ellison |
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ON SELF-DENIAL. |
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ON SELF-DENIAL.
Deny thyself, and that which thou deni-Est thyself will be godlike gain—will be
As measurelessly more than all that the
Fulfilment of thy wish, yea, in its high-
Est sense could bring, as the Godlike, which thy
Heart thro' it feels, than all else unto thee:
For, if felt, all else but as nought thou'lt see
Compared therewith; make thou ungrudgingly
The will of others, and their pleasure, thine;
Thus wilt thou have the enjoyment, not of one,
But many hearts, yet all still as thine own!
In doing good give thou thereof no sign;
Be viewless as the wind: pass on unknown,
Merged, like thy Maker, in thy work divine!
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