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[133] The sensuous joy from all things fair
     His strenuous bent of soul repressed,
And left from youth to silvered hair
     Few hours for pleasure, none for rest.

For all his life was poor without,
     O Nature, make the last amends!
Train all thy flowers his grave about,
     And make thy singing-birds his friends!

Revive again, thou summer rain,
     The broken turf upon his bed!
Breathe, summer wind, thy tenderest strain
     Of low, sweet music overhead!

With calm and beauty symbolize
     The peace which follows long annoy,
And lend our earth-bent, mourning eyes,
     Some hint of his diviner joy.

For safe with right and truth he is,
     As God lives he must live alway;
There is no end for souls like his,
     No night for children of the day!

Nor cant nor poor solicitudes
     Made weak his life's great argument;
Small leisure his for frames and moods
     Who followed Duty where she went.

The broad, fair fields of God he saw
     Beyond the bigot's narrow bound;
The truths he moulded into law
     In Christ's beatitudes he found.

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