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XXIV.
HOME SERVICE.
Would we recal our virtues and our peace?The ancient teraphim we must restore;
Bring back the household gods we loved of yore,
And bid our yearning for strange idols cease.
Our worship still is in the public way,—
Our altars are the market-place;—our prayer
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And heaven affects us little while we pray.
We do not call on God but man to hear;—
Nor even on his affections;—we have lost
The sweet humility of our home desires
And flaunt in foreign fashions at rare cost;
Nor God our souls, nor man our hearts, inspires,
Nor aught that should to God or man be dear.
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