Tis floating 'midst day's setting glories; Night, The dying hear it, and, as sounds of earth GOD, THE EVERLASTING LIGHT OF THE BLESSED. [DODDRIDGE.] E golden lamps of heaven, farewell, YE With all your feeble light! Farewell, thou ever-changing moon, Pale empress of the night! And thou, refulgent orb of day, In brighter flames array'd, My soul, that springs beyond thy sphere, Ye stars are but the shining dust The pavement of those heavenly courts Where I shall reign with God. The Father of eternal light Shall there his beams display, Nor shall one moment's darkness mix No more the drops of piercing grief Nor the meridian sun decline There all the millions of his saints And each the bliss of all shall view "WEEP FOR YOURSELVES! AND FOR YOUR CHILDREN." [MRS. SIGOURNEY.] E mourn for those who toil WE The slave who ploughs the main, Or him who hopeless tills the soil Beneath the stripe and chain; For those whom, in the world's hard race A host of restless phantoms chase,- We mourn for those who sin, Bound in the tempter's snare, Whom syren Pleasure beckons in Whose hearts, by whirlwind passions torn, We mourn for those who weep, Of lover or of friend; But they to whom the sway Of pain and grief is o'er, Whose tears our God hath wiped away- RESIGNATION. [NORRIS, OF BEMERTON.] INCE 'tis thy sentence I should part SIN With the most precious treasure of my heart, I freely that and more resign, My heart itself, as its delight, is thine; My little all I give to thee, Thou gav'st a greater gift, thy Son to me Take all, great God, I will not grieve Nor beg thy angel to sheath up his sword. TRUST IN GOD. [LANGHORNE.] HROUGH Error's maze, through Folly's night, THR The lamp of Reason lends me light: When stern Affliction waves her rod, Affliction flies, and Hope returns: Oh! may I still thy favour prove! PA UNMURMURING SUBMISSION. [REV. C. STRONG.] ASSING the inclosure where the dead repose Lingering with fond regard at evening's close, Silent they stood ---serene their thoughtful air; Next Sabbath brought me where the flow'ret lay, Record of high descent the marble bore, Heir of a noble house, and only stay; And these words, gather'd from the Bible's store— "The Lord hath given, the Lord hath ta'en away, His holy name be blessed evermore!" AS THY DAY IS, SO SHALL THY [MRS. SIGOURNEY.] HEN adverse winds and waves arise, WE And in my heart despondence sighs,-- When life her throng of care reveals, That" as my day, my strength shall be." |