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But who with filial Confidence inspir'd
Can lift to Heav'n an unpresumptuous eye,
And smiling say-"My Father made them all"

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TO LIBERTY.

BY COLERIDGE.

Ye clouds! that far above me float and pause, Whose pathless march no mortal may control! Ye ocean-waves! that wheresoe'er ye roll, Yield homage only to eternal laws!

Ye woods that listen to the night-bird's singing,
Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined,
Save when your own imperious branches, swinging,
Have made a solemn music of the wind!
Where, like a man beloved of God,

Through glooms, which woodman never trod,
How oft, pursuing fancies holy,

My moonlight way o'er flowering weeds I wound
Inspired, beyond the guess of folly,

By each rude shape and wild unconquerable sound
O, ye loud waves! and O, ye forests high!
And O, ye clouds that far above me soar'd!
Thou rising sun! thou blue rejoicing sky!
Yea, every thing that is, and will be free!
Bear witness for me, wheresoe'er ye be,
With what deep worship I have still adored
The spirit of divinest Liberty.-

O Liberty! with profitless endeavour
Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour;
But thou nor swell'st the victor's strain, nor

Didst breathe thy soul in forms of human power
Alike from all howe'er they praise thee,
(Not prayer, nor boastful name delays thee,)
Alike from priestcraft's harpy minions,
And factious blasphemy's obscener slaves,
Thou speedest on thy subtle pinions,

The guide of homeless winds, and playmate of the waves!

And there I felt thee !-on that sea-cliff's verge, Whose pines scarce travelled by the breeze

above,

Had made one murmur with the distant surge
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.

RESTRAINT NO WHERE ENDURABLE.

BY DRYDEN.

On give me liberty!

For were even paradise my prison,

Still I should long to leap the crystal walls.

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