Careful Words

rejoice (v.)

  Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth.

Old Testament: Ecclesiastes xi. 9.

  The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice.

Old Testament: Psalm xcvii. 1.

  The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Old Testament: Isaiah xxxv. 1.

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud.

We in ourselves rejoice!

And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight,

All melodies the echoes of that voice,

All colours a suffusion from that light.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Dejection. An Ode. Stanza 5.