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RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND ART.
"Musicians, painters, poets went their way, And I roamed musing o'er this lovely plain;And ere hath fled the light of this fair day Yon mountain's lofty height I hope to gain,Where Fame's proud temple in its beauty stands; There Genius' high-souled sons and daughters goFrom many nations and from many lands, For holy fires on their souls' altars glow."
Religion all the while had listened there, And when Art ceased, in prayer she bowed her head.Then soon again she to her sisters fair In gentle tones and in sweet accents said,"O glorious Art! with eye that beams inspired, Within whose soul the soul of beauty lies,Where wander beauty's forms, in robes attired All touched with rainbow tints and sunbeam dyes.
"O noble Science! daughter of the skies, O being of a bright celestial birth!Whose hand unfolds all Nature's mysteries, And scatters beams of truth throughout the earth,Come, go with me, ascend the mount of God, And at the cross of Calv'ry humbly kneel;Come, tread with me where Christ's own feet have trod, And Christ shall there to you Himself reveal.
