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Excerpt from Sketches of Life and Landscape True Life. Thou that hast tuned my reed, if tuned it be, If this high prayer to such low dust belong, Ineffable Inspirer! speak to me, That I sing not an inharmonious song. Speak to me, trembling in thy glory's blaze, That chanting Life, withal I chant thy praise. This earth-strung harp but teaches me to weep, Furrows my aching brow before its time; O! give me now the lyre that I shall sweep Upon the hills of you celestial clime: God! make my spirit like a surging sea, Rolling its thundering anthems up to Thee! Such scope I covet - fitly to adore! Such scope, the import of my theme to scan; Ocean of Life! no swimmer finds a shore; Unfathomable mystery of Man! So vast, so various, whence, or whether, all Shrouded in secrecy as with a pall! Dread dissonance of earth! each life a note Swelling the mighty uproar tempest high; Harmonious voices few, and too remote To temper the wild clamor of the sky; O! for a plunge that ocean to explore! O! for a wing that chaos outsoar! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.