Touches on The Harp of Nature in the Same Key as Burns' Grand Anthem. By Henry Ellison |
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THOUGHT'S POWER. |
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THOUGHT'S POWER.
Art thou not a magician? can'st thou tooNot draw a circle round thee, o'er which naught
Shall pass? Yea, surely; thou can'st with thy thought
Keep all life's ills at bay;—for how, save thro'
Thy thought, can aught affect thee, reach unto
Thy inner self? all that which Time has brought
He takes again; but if the heart be fraught
Thereby with all high feelings, with the True
And Godlike, what then matters it if he
Resume the mere thing given? It has done
Enough: made us feel godlike! and if we
Feel so through it, all that it e'er could be
It is already; then, do this alone,
Feel all things godlike, and then Time of none
Can rob thee! but to do this rests with thee:
For if thou wilt but learn to feel thine own
Heart godlike, all things thou thro' it must godlike see!
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