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HE REJOICES AT BEING ON EARTH WITH HER, AS HE IS THEREBY ENABLED BETTER / TO IMITATE HER VIRTUES.
Soul! with such various faculties endued / To think, write, speak, to read, to see, to hear; / My doting eyes! and thou, my faithful ear! / Where drinks my heart her counsels wise and good; / Your fortune smiles; if after or before, / The path were won so badly follow'd yet, / Ye had not then her bright eyes' lustre met, / Nor traced her light feet earth's green carpet o'er.
Now with so clear a light, so sure a sign, / 'Twere shame to err or halt on the brief way / Which makes thee worthy of a home divine.
That better course, my weary will, essay! / To pierce the cloud of her sweet scorn be thine, / Pursuing her pure steps and heavenly ray.
MACGREGOR.