text:  Nor did they assemble there because his genius was greater than God in his bounty had bestowed upon others but because he had used it for the glory and exaltation of his country; because he loved her with an ardour the most vivid and extreme; because he had shed the light entrusted to his charge both on the lofty dwelling and on the lowly hearth but most brightly and cheeringly upon the latter for that was his peculiar charge