ic purity of diction as well as tenderness of sentiment. They
express, without freshness of intuition, the emotions and desires of a
devoutly religious nature; and they commend themselves, like some of the
best and earliest Christian hymns, by their realization of the Divine
essence as something to be directly approached with filial and personal
affection. Here is no burst of fervid devotion, but rather a quiet love,
breathing contrition, faith, and praise in poems of gentle earnestness,
which even the reader not imbued with the element of their inspiration
may find graceful and pleasing.

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