GOD'S OMNIPRESENCE. AMONG the deepest shades of night, When every eye around me sleeps, If I could find some cave unknown, On every side there would be God. He smiles in heaven; he frowns in hell; I must within his presence dwell; Yet I may flee-he shows me where: TAYLOR. CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE. JESUS CHRIST, my Lord and Saviour, All my nature is unholy; Pride and passion dwell within; But the Lord was meek and lowly, And was never known to sin. While I'm often vainly trying Let me never be forgetful Lord, though now thou art in glory, I can read thy sacred story, Help me by that rule to measure TAYLOR. TEACHING FROM THE STARS. STARS, that on your wondrous way Yes, methinks I hear you say, Child of mortal race, attend; "While we run our wondrous way, "Listen; we would be your friend; "Teaching you that Name Divine, "By whose mighty word we shine. "Child, as truly as we roll Through the dark and distant sky, "You have an immortal soul, "Born to live when we shall die. "Suns and planets pass away: "Spirits never can decay. "When some thousand years, at most, "All their little time have spent, "One by one our sparkling host "Shall forsake the firmament. "We shall from our glory fall; "You must live beyond us all. "Yes, and GOD, who bade us roll, "GOD, who hung us in the sky, "Stoops to watch an infant's soul "O then, while your breath is given, TAYLOR. EASTER HYMN. JESUS CHRIST is risen to-day, Our triumphant holiday; Halleluiah! Who so lately on the cross Suffered, to redeem our loss, Halleluiah! Hymns of praises let us sing Unto Christ our heavenly King, Halleluiah! Sinners to redeem and save, Halleluiah! But the pains which he endured, Our salvation have procured; Halleluiah! Where the angels ever sing Halleluiah! ENGLISH POETRY. PART THE SECOND. THE LAST MINSTREL. THE way was long, the wind was cold, The unpremeditated lay; Old times were changed, old manners gone; A stranger filled the Stuart's throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. |