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To The Returning Sun.
TO THE RETURNING SUN .
BY THE SAME . Welcome , thou glorious spring of light and heat ! Where hast thou made thy long retreat—What lands thy warmer beams possest—What happy Indian worlds thy fruitful presence blest ? Where deep in the dark bosom of the ground
Thy wondrous operation ' s found ? Even there thy beams the earth refine , And mix , and stamp thy lustre through the dazzling mine . Since thy retreat so far from our cold isle , She never wore a lovely smile ; No joy her withered brow adorned
in dark unlovely days , and in long nights she mourned . The poor dejected beasts hung down their heads , And trembled on then - naked beds ; No footsteps of green life remain , But dying fields , and woods and a hare bleaky plain , The drooping birds were silent in the groves ,
They quite forgot their songs and loves ; Their feeble mates sat sullen by , We thought the feathered world resolved their land should die , But see ! the land revives at thy approach ; She blooms and quickens at thy touch ; Her kindled atoms life receive ,
'The meadows , and the groves , begin to stir and live . Mixed with thy beams the southern breezes blow , And help the sprouting births below . The infant flowers in haste appear , And gratefully return perfumes to the kind air . The trees , and fields , again look fresh and gay ,
The birds begin their softer play—Thou hast then - life , nay more , their love , restored—Their late and early hymns praise thee , their welcome lord . The spreading fire glides through the plains and woods , It even pierces the cold floods : The duller brutes feel the soft flame , The fishes leap for joy , and wanton in the stream .
HUMAN KNOWLEDGE—Man being the servant and interpreter of nature , can do and understand so much , aud so much only , as he has observed in fact or in thought of the coarse of nature : beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything . Novum Orgamm .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Returning Sun.
TO THE RETURNING SUN .
BY THE SAME . Welcome , thou glorious spring of light and heat ! Where hast thou made thy long retreat—What lands thy warmer beams possest—What happy Indian worlds thy fruitful presence blest ? Where deep in the dark bosom of the ground
Thy wondrous operation ' s found ? Even there thy beams the earth refine , And mix , and stamp thy lustre through the dazzling mine . Since thy retreat so far from our cold isle , She never wore a lovely smile ; No joy her withered brow adorned
in dark unlovely days , and in long nights she mourned . The poor dejected beasts hung down their heads , And trembled on then - naked beds ; No footsteps of green life remain , But dying fields , and woods and a hare bleaky plain , The drooping birds were silent in the groves ,
They quite forgot their songs and loves ; Their feeble mates sat sullen by , We thought the feathered world resolved their land should die , But see ! the land revives at thy approach ; She blooms and quickens at thy touch ; Her kindled atoms life receive ,
'The meadows , and the groves , begin to stir and live . Mixed with thy beams the southern breezes blow , And help the sprouting births below . The infant flowers in haste appear , And gratefully return perfumes to the kind air . The trees , and fields , again look fresh and gay ,
The birds begin their softer play—Thou hast then - life , nay more , their love , restored—Their late and early hymns praise thee , their welcome lord . The spreading fire glides through the plains and woods , It even pierces the cold floods : The duller brutes feel the soft flame , The fishes leap for joy , and wanton in the stream .
HUMAN KNOWLEDGE—Man being the servant and interpreter of nature , can do and understand so much , aud so much only , as he has observed in fact or in thought of the coarse of nature : beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything . Novum Orgamm .