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Rh Of anxiousness, with which they are combined.

And thus it is that fitly they become

Associates in the joy of purest minds:

They blend therewith congenially: meanwhile

Calmly they breathe their own undying life

Through this their mountain sanctuary; long

Oh long may it remain inviolate,

Diffusing health and sober cheerfulness,

And giving to the moments as they pass

Their little boons of animating thought

That sweeten labour, make it seen and felt

To be no arbitrary weight imposed,

But a glad function natural to man.

Fair proof of this, newcomer though I be,

Already have I gained; the inward frame,

Though slowly opening, opens every day