BLESSING.
Blessings star forth forever; but a curse
Is like a cloud—it passes.
Festus: Sc. Hades. P.J. BAILEY.
To heal divisions, to relieve the oppressed,
In virtue rich; in blessing others, blessed.
Odyssey, Bk. VII. HOMER. Trans. of POPE.
Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed,
Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes
Expanded, shine with azure, green, and gold;
How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
Night Thoughts, Night II. DR. E. YOUNG.
In the nine heavens are eight Paradises;
Where is the ninth one? In the human breast.
Only the blessèd dwell in the Paradises,
But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
Oriental Poetry: The Ninth Paradise. W.R. ALGER.