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Page 30 - Lost in clouds, in tempests tost,'" Anxious hopes some friendly coast, Which shall calm and shelter give, Where he peacefully may live : But the coast that I have found, Is not common eartlily ground ; His is mortal, mine's eternal, His is barren, mine is Heaven?
Page 124 - Perchanc'd against a rock to bounce With force as if with sudden pounce He'd lighted on a timid hare That fleetly wing'd the nether air. Quick rising up, the sudden blow...
Page 15 - tis the ruler of the hosts on high : Some trivial exercise of power divine, For purposes — to him best known — but wise, For wisdom is the daughter of Divinity.
Page 36 - O'ER fields of green the flocks are spread, The oak extends its sylvan shade, The root puts forth its tender blade And says 'tis May.
Page 175 - The bee collecting honied wine ; And with a friend, whose every sigh Is wing'd for Heaven, low to lie Where we may with JESUS meet — Oh ! is not this divinely sweet ? XLJII.
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Page 144 - OH see those fair celestial heights, How bright they shine, how glorious glow, They shine, oh ye who act aright, They glow, oh Christians, but for you ! OJV SEEING A PJSSWG VESSEL.
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| Title | Miscellaneous Poems: On Moral and Religious Subjects |
| Author | Benjamin Allen |
| Publisher | Wm. E. Norman, 1811 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 May 2007 |
| Length | 180 pages |
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