Truth is alone eternal as the God

Who on this everlasting basis placed

His own immutable and moveless throne.

Time to these writings daily adds new force,

Deepening the traces of Jehovah's love,

His fathomless, unbounded love to man.—

Peruse this volume, and then walk abroad

And meditate in silence on the scenes

Which lately charmed your unassisted sense,

Till your soul burns within you, and breaks forth

In holy hymns of gratitude and praise.—

Faith gives a grandeur to created things,

Beyond the poet's lay or painter's art,

Or upward flight of Fancy's eagle wing;—

Earth is the vista through which heaven is seen

By him who, journeying through life's narrow vale,

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Seeks in the objects which around him rise

To hold communion with his God! to trace

The wisdom, goodness, majesty, and love,

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