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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357276" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Song to David</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sublime—invention ever young, <br>Of vast conception, tow'ring tongue <br>To God th' eternal theme; <br>Notes from yon exaltations caught, <br>Unrivall'd royalty of thought<br>O'er meaner strains supreme. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His muse, bright angel of his verse, <br>Gives balm for all the thorns that pierce, <br>For all the pangs that rage; <br>Blest light still gaining on the gloom,<br>The more than Michal of his bloom, <br>Th' Abishag of his age. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sang of God—the mighty source <br>Of all things—the stupendous force <br>On which all strength depends;<br>From whose right arm, beneath whose eyes, <br>All period, power, and enterprise <br>Commences, reigns, and ends. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tell them, I AM, Jehovah said <br>To Moses; while earth heard in dread,<br>And, smitten to the heart, <br>At once above, beneath, around, <br>All Nature, without voice or sound, <br>Replied, O LORD, THOU ART. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world, the clustering spheres, He made;<br>The glorious light, the soothing shade, <br>Dale, champaign, grove, and hill; <br>The multitudinous abyss, <br>Where Secrecy remains in bliss, <br>And Wisdom hides her skill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pillars of the Lord are seven, <br>Which stand from earth to topmost heaven; <br>His Wisdom drew the plan; <br>His Word accomplish'd the design, <br>From brightest gem to deepest mine;<br>From Christ enthroned, to Man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Adoration all the ranks <br>Of Angels yield eternal thanks, <br>And David in the midst; <br>With God's good poor, which, last and least<br>In man's esteem, Thou to Thy feast, <br>O blessèd Bridegroom, bidd'st! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Adoration, David's Psalms <br>Lift up the heart to deeds of alms; <br>And he, who kneels and chants,<br>Prevails his passions to control, <br>Finds meat and medicine to the soul, <br>Which for translation pants. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Adoration, in the dome <br>Of Christ, the sparrows find a home,<br>And on His olives perch: <br>The swallow also dwells with thee, <br>O man of God's humility, <br>Within his Saviour's church. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet is the dew that falls betimes,<br>And drops upon the leafy limes; <br>Sweet Hermon's fragrant air: <br>Sweet is the lily's silver bell, <br>And sweet the wakeful tapers' smell <br>That watch for early prayer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet the young nurse, with love intense, <br>Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence; <br>Sweet, when the lost arrive: <br>Sweet the musician's ardour beats, <br>While his vague mind's in quest of sweets,<br>The choicest flowers to hive. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strong is the horse upon his speed; <br>Strong in pursuit the rapid glede, <br>Which makes at once his game: <br>Strong the tall ostrich on the ground;<br>Strong through the turbulent profound <br>Shoots Xiphias to his aim. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strong is the lion—like a coal <br>His eyeball,—like a bastion's mole <br>His chest against the foes:<br>Strong, the gier-eagle on his sail; <br>Strong against tide th' enormous whale <br>Emerges as he goes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But stronger still, in earth and air, <br>And in the sea, the man of prayer,<br>And far beneath the tide: <br>And in the seat to faith assign'd, <br>Where ask is have, where seek is find, <br>Where knock is open wide. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Precious the penitential tear;<br>And precious is the sigh sincere, <br>Acceptable to God: <br>And precious are the winning flowers, <br>In gladsome Israel's feast of bowers <br>Bound on the hallow'd sod.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glorious the sun in mid career; <br>Glorious th' assembled fires appear; <br>Glorious the comet's train: <br>Glorious the trumpet and alarm; <br>Glorious the Almighty's stretched-out arm;<br>Glorious th' enraptured main: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glorious the northern lights astream; <br>Glorious the song, when God 's the theme; <br>Glorious the thunder's roar: <br>Glorious Hosanna from the den;<br>Glorious the catholic Amen; <br>Glorious the martyr's gore: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glorious—more glorious—is the crown <br>Of Him that brought salvation down, <br>By meekness call'd thy Son:<br>Thou that stupendous truth believed;— <br>And now the matchless deed 's achieved, <br>Determined, dared, and done!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christopher+Smart">Christopher Smart</a><div class=q>
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Of vast conception, tow'ring tongue 
To God th' eternal theme; 
Notes from yon exaltations caught, 
Unrivall'd royalty of thought
O'er meaner strains supreme. 

His muse, bright angel of his verse, 
Gives balm for ..."></div>
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