Silent companions of the lonely hour, Friends, who can never alter or forsake, Who for inconstant roving have no power, And all neglect, perforce, must calmly take,-- Let me return to you; this turmoil ending Which worldly cares have in my spirit wrought, And, o'er your old familiar pages bending, Refresh my mind with many a tranquil thought: Till, haply meeting there, from time to time, Fancies, the audible echo of my own, 'Twill be like hearing in a foreign clime My native language spoke in friendly tone, And with a sort of welcome I shall dwell On these, my unripe musings, told so well.
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Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
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Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Matthew 11:28:
'Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.'
(NIV)
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.](AMP)
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
(KJV)
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2 Peter 1:13:
I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body
(NIV)
I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle (tent, body), to stir you up by way of remembrance
(AMP)
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
(KJV)
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