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Teach me, submissive and resign'd, To calm the tempest of the mind; To lift the meek, adoring eye, Suppress the tear and hush the sigh; Gaze on one bright, unclouded star, And hail "the day-spring" from afar, Bid angel-faith dispel surrounding gloom, And soar, on cherub-wing—beyond the tomb.