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Felicia Dorothea Hemans - The Aged Patriarch
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Of life`s past woes, the fading trace
Hath given that aged patriarch`s face
Expression, holy, deep, resign`d, 
The calm sublimity of mind.

Years o`er his snowy head have pass`d,
And left him of his race the last;
Alone on earth, but yet his mien
Is bright with majesty serene;

And those high hopes, whose guiding star
Shines from eternal words afar,
Have with that light illumed his eye
Whose fount is immortality.

And o`er his features pour`d a ray
Of glory not to pass away,
He seems a being who hath known
Communion with his God alone.

On earth by nought but pity`s tie,
Detain`d a moment from on high;
One to sublimer worlds allied,
One from all passions purified.

E`en now half-mingled with the sky,
And all prepared, oh! not to die,
But like the prophet, to aspire
To Heaven`s triumphal car of fire.
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