A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

And I am happy when I sing.

A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.