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"How beautiful the hour of early dawn, / When the first rays glance up the Eastern sky, / When the bright fingers of the fresh'ning morn / Draw back the veil of dark obscurity, / And give all Nature's beauties to the eye, / Her fairest scenes unfolding to the view; / The lark with buoyant pinion mounts on high, / And on the emerald lawn the pure soft dew / Sparkles with every beam which breaks the bright clouds / through.
"Thus on the night of ignorance and sin / The radiant morning of Conversion breaks, / A beam from heaven seems to shine within; / And, as the lark his earthly nest forsakes / And upward soars towards the source of light,- / From bonds of sin the soul enraptured breaks, / And-winged by Faith-springs on her upward flight / Till that clear day when Faith itself is lost in sight!"