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‘O happy Earth! reality of Heaven! / To which those restless souls that ceaselessly / Throng through the human universe, aspire; / Thou consummation of all mortal hope! / Thou glorious prize of blindly-working will! / Whose rays, diffused throughout all space and time, / Verge to one point and blend for ever there: / Of purest spirits thou pure dwelling-place! / Where care and sorrow, impotence and crime, / Languor, disease, and ignorance dare not come: / O happy Earth, reality of Heaven!
‘Genius has seen thee in her passionate dreams, / And dim forebodings of thy loveliness / Haunting the human heart, have there entwined / Those rooted hopes of some sweet place of bliss / Where friends and lovers meet to part no more. / Thou art the end of all desire and will, / The product of all action; and the souls / That by the paths of an aspiring change / Have reached thy haven of perpetual peace, / There rest from the eternity of toil / That framed the fabric of thy perfectness.