With a mild and gentle sympathy that steals
Away their sharpness ere he is aware.
Thanatopsis. Wm. Cullen Bryant.
The man who loves his nature he holds connections with his form in a visible manner; he speaks a different language for his lively hours. Nature has a glad voice and smile and beauty. He goes into his darker musings with a mild and healing sympathy and not with a sorrowful feeling that steals away their sharpness before he is aware of it.
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To him she speaks the love of nature and of various languages, and she smiles with healing sympathy and steals away his gayer hours and eloquence of beauty that steals away their sharpness before he knows of it.
Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young,
As angels are, ripening through endless years.