The Layman's Breviary, Or Meditations for Every Day in the Year Pt. 2461
The Layman's Breviary, Or Meditations for Every Day in the Year Pt. 2461
Leopold Schefer
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Is man*s great wish! No sorrow then bows down His head to earth ; no tear bedims his eye And veils the fair world from his sight; no fear O'ercasts the radiance of the sunny days ; Nor yet does ev'n a hope contract his breast, And fix his spirit's eye on earthly things. Free from misfortune, man can live in bliss. With gladness can enjoy what makes this life A thing divine to man: for as the rose Is laden with sweet perfume, so the world Is laden with beauty and felicity. And even a god cannot ...impart to man A higher joy than God has given to him Who lives in purity an unvexed life! Honor Beauty and Goodness everywhere» The good in others, O conceal thou not, The good, both what they do and what they are, The beauty they themselves are, and create. What? by concealment thankest thou the God Who gave the feeling for the fair and good? Thankest thou thus the man, who offers it With soul inspired by native modesty? For such a soul is his, who bears so much Of what is good and fair, that like the fruit-tree THE LAYMAN'S BREVIARV.
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