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“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!”

“One of those heavenly days that cannot die.”

“And mighty poets in their misery dead.”

“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”

“Nature's old felicities.”

“But he is risen, a later star of dawn.”

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