Happy the heart where graces reign
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Happy the heart where graces reign,Where love inspires the breast:Love is the brightest of the train,And strengthens all the rest.
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Knowledge—alas! 'tis all in vain,And all in vain our fear;Our stubborn sins will fight and reign,If love be absent there.
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This is the grace that lives and singsWhen faith and hope shall cease;'Tis this shall strike our joyful stringsIn the sweet realms of bliss.
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Before we quite forsake our clay,Or leave this dark abode,The wings of love bear us away,To see our smiling God.