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• Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

  Robert Southey

  Mother, Pain, Night

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.322

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• Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

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  Sky, Rainbow, Lovely

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.108

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• The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

  Robert Southey

  Fields, Clergymen, Parades

  Robert Southey (1850). “The Life & Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey: (VIII, 390 p.)”, p.75

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• A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

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  Wise, Men, Good Man

  Robert Southey (1850). “The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey”, p.279

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• Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

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  Home, Character, Eye

  Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.157

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• Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

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  Blessed, Men, Wind

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• Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

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  Memories, Light, Awful

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.696

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• O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Atheist, Eye

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