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been much swayed by the doctrine. To Young, Dryden, Shelley quote a few verses from the best poets of the and Words worth. Christian world : In the Night Thoughts'
of Young, the poet sings,--
"Look Nature through, 'tis revolution all, All change, no death ; day follows night, and night The dying day, stars rise and set, and set and rise. Earth takes the example. All to reflourish fades; As in a wheel-all sinks to re-ascend;
Emblems of man, who passes, not expires." In Dryden's Ovid we read, -
"Death has no power the immortal soul to slay, That, when its present body turns to clay, Seeks a fresh home, and with unlessened might,
Inspires another frame with life and light." Shelley sings in 'Queen Mab, :
"For birth but wakes the spirit to the sense
Of outward shows, whose inexperienced shape New modes of passion to its frame may lend, Life is its state of action, and the store Of all events aggregated there That variegate the eternal universe, Death is a gate of dreariness and gloom, That leads to azure isles and beaming skies And happy regions of eternal hope.”'
In his “Intimations of Immortality Wordsworth informs, -
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