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234 Concrete obstructions which infest the air! —That earth's alive, and gentle or ungentle Motions within her, signify but growth: The ground swells greenest o'er the labouring moles. Howe'er the uneasy world is vexed and wroth, Young children, lifted high on parent souls, Look round them with a smile upon the mouth, And take for music every bell that tolls. said we should be better if like these? And we despond we for the future, though Posterity is smiling at our knees, Convicting us of folly? Let us go— We will trust God. The blank interstices Men take for ruins, He will build into With pillared marbles rare, or knit across With generous arches, till the fane's complete. This world has no perdition, if some loss.

Such cheer I gather from thy smiling, Sweet! The self same cherub faces which emboss The rail, lean inward to the mercy-seat.