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 Ev'n so, with all submission, I
 . . . .
  Send you each year a homely letter,
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 Ev'n so, with all submission, I
 . . . .
  Send you each year a homely letter,
   Who may return me much a better. 
 Good-bye--my paper's out so nearly,
 I've only room for, Yours sincerely.  
 Good-bye--my paper's out so nearly,
 I've only room for, Yours sincerely. 
 Belshazzar had a letter,--
 He never had but one;
  Belshazzar's correspondence
   Concluded and begun
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 Belshazzar had a letter,--
 He never had but one;
  Belshazzar's correspondence
   Concluded and begun
    In that immortal copy
     The conscience of us all
      Can read without its glasses
       On revelation's wall. 
 A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a 
beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring read more 
 A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a 
beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring 
sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of 
man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth. 
 Messenger of sympathy and love,
 Servant of parted friends,
  Consoler of the lonely,
   Bond read more 
 Messenger of sympathy and love,
 Servant of parted friends,
  Consoler of the lonely,
   Bond of the scattered family,
    Enlarger of the common life. 
 Every day brings a ship,
 Every ship brings a word;
  Well for those who have no fear,
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 Every day brings a ship,
 Every ship brings a word;
  Well for those who have no fear,
   Looking seaward well assured
    That the word the vessel brings
     Is the word they wish to hear. 
 Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow,
 Led thro' a said variety of woe:
  Now warm in read more 
 Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow,
 Led thro' a said variety of woe:
  Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,
   Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! 
 Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear,
 Unite division, and draw distance near;
  Their magic force each silent read more 
 Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear,
 Unite division, and draw distance near;
  Their magic force each silent wish conveys,
   And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways:
    Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean,
     For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between. 
 And oft the pangs of absence to remove
 By letters, soft interpreters of love.  
 And oft the pangs of absence to remove
 By letters, soft interpreters of love.