But I could never find my heart o'erflow.

He cried aloud, till in the flock began

The sigh, the tear, as caught from man to man;

They wept and they rejoiced, and there was I,

Hard as a flint, and as the desert dry.

To me no tokens of the call would come,

I felt my sentence and received my doom;

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But I complain'd;—'Let thy repinings cease,