Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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THE BEST MEANS FOR WORKING OUT GREAT BLESSINGS. |
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THE BEST MEANS FOR WORKING OUT GREAT BLESSINGS.
How would ye work out grand Results, save byThe most familiar Means? or how would ye
With Profit rouse Men's Hearts to feel and be
The Godlike which they are, if not by steadily
Subliming, purifying, what is high
Within them, by the Aid of all they see
And hear? the commoner the better, the
'More certain then will be its Agency,
'Till Repetition to fixed Habit grow:
But by the daily Beatings of the Heart,
The Hopes which leaven, lighten here below
Man's daily Bread? sublime but these, impart
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'Till, like the common Air we breathe, it flow
Thro' his whole Being, leaven into Food
Fit for the Angels' Lips his daily Bread,
Then commonest Things will most subserve to Good,
For in them at all Moments may be read
The sublime Lesson thus made present to
Men's Minds, in all they think, hope, feel, and do;
A daily Warmth within the Heart to keep
Its best Affections, Energies, in still
And quiet Action, yet intense and deep,
Like that upon the Householdhearth, around
Which so, so many Blessings meet, to fill
Not with intoxicating, but profound
Delights the wise Heart which has learnt to bound
Itself to that best sphere, which itself can
Fill out and perfect — by these Means alone
Are great Results to be accomplished — Man
Is benefitted, bettered thro 'his own
Most daily Thoughts and Feelings only, by
His most familiar Impressions; these
Once in your Power, you mould him as you please,
The Drudge of Earth or Angel for the Sky!
The Fool alone wants Means, and hopes by rare
And farfetched Methods to work out great Things,
Neglecting those, which like the common Air,
Abound on all Sides: not so Wisdom brings
Her Plans unto Perfection, for she knows
That God, who has supplied the meanest Flower,
Nay e'en the crawling Earthworm with full Power
Its Being to fulfill, has not left those
Unfurnished whom he fashioned for the Sky,
After his divine Likeness, and that when
He gifted Man with Mind and Heart, he gave,
Summed up in these, all Goods which he could have;
All that was needful in the narrowest Span
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And with what wouldst thou fuse the Hearts of Men
Into one godlike mighty Heart, save by
The daily Warmth which their own Breasts supply?
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