...best given by the beginning of ' Duty ' : ' Stern daughter of the voice of God ! 0 Duty ! If that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check...; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity.' The differences between Gray's and Wordsworth's lines ought to be at once apparent. Gray never wholly...

...eyejj survey'd ! vol. i. & 1 1 ODE TO DUTY. Stern Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a Light to guide, a Rod To check...terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; From strife and from despair; a glorious ministry. There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them;...

...STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a Light to guide, a Rod V To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou who art victory...terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free J And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ;...

...man. Like his other tales, the predominant characters are all good and amiable ; they are of those " Who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love and trnth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Blest hearts ! without reproach...

...the voice of nature. They belong to the class of beings described by the poet, in his Ode to Duty : " There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who,...misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth ; Blest hearts ! without reproach or blot! Who do thy will, and know it not ! " . . It never occurs...

...great Above all human estimate. ODE TO DUTY. STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a Light to guide, a Rod To check...overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free; And calmstthe weary strife of frail humanity! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who, in love...

...listening. ODE TO DUTY. Daughter of the Voice of God ! 'I'uiy' if that name thou love, ' Wbo art a Light lo guide, a Rod • To check the erring, and reprove...who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; • FfWD vain temptations dost set free; And calm'sl the weary strife of frail humanity! There are...

...of delight ? ODE TO DUTY. [WORDSWORTH.] STERN daughter of the voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love ; Who art a light to guide, a rod To check...terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; From strife and from despair ; a glorious ministry. There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them...

...good-will to all men in the path of duty. " Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty 1 if that name thou love, Who art a Light to guide, a Rod To check...; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity. Stern lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we any thing so fair...

...Duty"— my admiration for Wordsworth, but I " Stern daughter of the voice of God, O duty ! if that name thou love, Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the errmg, and reprove ; Then who art victory and law, When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations...