But where all our hopes are tending, Peace and love Reign above, Bliss and joy unending. XLIV. O HUMAN heart! thou hast a song O human heart! what deed of thine O human heart! that singest still O human heart! thou hast a song SAY not the law divine Is hidden from thee, or afar removed; That law within would shine, If there its glorious light were sought and loved. Soar not on high, Nor ask who thence shall bring it down to earth. That vaulted sky Hath no such star, didst thou but know its worth. Nor launch thy bark In search thereof upon a shoreless sea, No dove to bring this olive-branch to thee. Then do not roam In search of that which wandering cannot win. At home! at home! That word is placed, thy very heart within. O! seek it there, Turn to its teachings with devoted will; And in the power of faith this law fulfil. WHAT conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue. Let not this weak unknowing hand And deal damnation round the land If I am right, thy grace impart Save me alike from foolish pride, At aught thy wisdom has denied, Teach me to feel another's woe, The mercy I to others shew, C ALL men are equal in their birth, All men are equal when that earth All wait alike on Him whose Upholds the life He gave ; power The sage within his star-lit tower, God meets the throngs who pay their VOWS In courts their hands have made; And hears the worshipper who bows Beneath the plantain-shade. 'Tis man alone who difference sees, And worships those, and tramples these, Oh, let man hasten to restore In power and wealth exult no more; In wisdom lowly move. Ye great! renounce your earth-born pride; Ye low! your shame and fear: Live, as ye worship, side by side; Your brotherhood revere. XLVIII. Joy there is, that, seated deep, Stern and awful are its tones Tenderer is the form it wears, Touched with love, dissolved in tears, Joy even here! a budding flower, Nurtured in its native land. |