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imepiece: The Task, Bk. II_. W. COWPER. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to Heaven, Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. _Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3_. SHAKESPEARE. Wel ought a prest ensample for to yive, By his clennesse, how that his sheep shulde lyve. * * * * * To draw folk to heven by fairnesse By good ensample, this was his busynesse. _Canterbury Tales: Prologue_. CHAUCER. Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached. _Art of Preserving Health_ J. ARMSTRONG. CLOUD. By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven. _Michael Angelo, Pt. II_. H.W. LONGFELLOW. Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast. And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire. _In Memoriam, XV_. A. TENNYSON. The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields, And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool, Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow In large effusion, o'er the freshened world. _The Seasons: Spring_. J. THOMSON. A step, A single step, that freed me from the skirts Of the blind vapor, opened to my view Glory beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul! The appearance, instantaneously disclosed Was of a mighty city,--boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, Far sinking into splendor,--without end! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed; there, towers begirt With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars,--illumination of all gems! _The Excursion, Bk. II_. W. WORDSWORTH. See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks! _Christus: The Golden Legend_. H.W. LONGFELLOW. COMFORT. Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human
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