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Praise chears, and warms, like gen'rous wine;
 praise, more divine than pray'r;
Pray'r points our ready path to heav'n;
 praise is already there.

Let plausive Resignation rise,
 and banish all complaint;
All virtues thronging into one,
 it finishes the saint;

Makes the man bless'd, as man can be;
 life's labours renders light;
Darts beams thro' fate's incumbent gloom,
 and lights our sun by night;

'Tis nature's brightest ornament,
 the richest gift of grace,
Rival of angels, and supreme
 proprietor of peace;

Nay, peace beyond, no small degree
 of rapture 'twill impart;
Know, Madam! "when your heart's in heav'n,
 "All heav'n is in your heart."

But who to heav'n their hearts can raise?
 deny'd divine support,
All virtue dies; support divine
 the wise with ardour court:

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