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No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence.

Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love.

The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.

When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.