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" Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first Love, And looking back, at that short space Could see a glimpse... "
The Gentleman's Magazine
1903
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Lives of sacred poets

Lives of sacred poets, Volume 1

Robert Aris Willmott, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee - Literary Criticism - 1834 - 363 pages
...from Herbert's poem on Grace. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy. Before I understood this place, Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, celestial thought, — When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first...
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THE SACRED CLASSICS

THE SACRED CLASSICS

THE REV.R. CATTERMOLE, B.D - 1836
...give a sunshine after rain. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race ; Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love...
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Sacred poetry of the seventeenth century: including the whole of Giles ...

Sacred poetry of the seventeenth century: including the whole of Giles ...

Giles Fletcher - Poetry - 1836
...give a sunshine after rain. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shin'd in my angel-infancy ! Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race; Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love...
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The Church of England quarterly review

The Church of England quarterly review

Religion - 1837
...to Henry Vaughan. The following lines are beautiful in the conception and in the expression : — " Happy those early days when I Shined in my angel infancy...Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought, But a white celestial thought — * * * ' * When on some gilded cloud, or flower, My gazing...
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance

The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance

Art
...days when I, Shrined in my angel infancy ! Ere I understood this place Appointed for my second raoe ; Or taught my soul to fancy aught, But a white celestial thought. When on some gilded clond or flower, My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories, spy...
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Gems of sacred poetry [ed. by R. Cattermole?].

Gems of sacred poetry [ed. by R. Cattermole?].

Gems - History - 1841
...and the out-courts of glory. THE RETREAT. HAPPY those early days, when I Shined in my angel-infancy! Before I understood this place, Appointed for my second...soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; - - , — i When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love ; And, looking back...
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The Southern literary messenger

The Southern literary messenger

1842
...very life of things. Happy those early days when I Shrined in my angel infancy! Ere I understood thin place Appointed for my second race : Or taught my...to fancy aught, But a white celestial thought. When on some gilded cloud or flower, My piling soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories, spy...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 16-17

1849
...passionate love of Nature — " Happy those early dayes when I stil:. '.i in my Angell-infancy ! Eefore I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy ought But a white, Celestiall thought ; When yet I had not walkt above A mile or two from my first...
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Eclectic magazine: foreign literature

Eclectic magazine: foreign literature, Volume 17

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1849
...this passionate love of Nature — " Happy those early daye* when I Shin'd in ray Angell-infaucy ! . " The vertebra of the sea-serpent described and delineated in the ' Werneriau Transac ought I'.ut a white, Celestiall thought ; When yet 1 had not walkt above A mile or two from my first...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical ...

The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical ...

Religion - 1850
...early youth. Nothing that he was afterwards called upon to witness or mingle with, entirely Before 1 understood this place Appointed for my second race...But a white celestial thought ; When yet I had not walk'd above A mile or two from my first love; And looking back at that abort space, Could see a glimpse...
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