The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Absence of occupation is not rest.
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.