NOT TO MYSELF ALONE.

I sing unto the common, bleak and bare,
My gladsome tune;

I sweeten and refresh the languid air
In droughty June.”

"Not to myself alone,"

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O man! forget not thou-earth's honored priest,
Its tongue, its soul, its lip, its pulse, its heart
In earth's great chorus to sustain thy part!
Chiefest of guests at love's ungrudging feast,
Play not the niggard; spurn thy native clod,
And self disown;

Live to thy neighbor, live unto thy God;
Not to thyself alone!

H

PART IV.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

FAIN, O my child, I'd have thee know,
The God whom angels love:

And teach thee feeble strains below,
Akin to theirs above.