The Lesson of the Beautiful.

"He hath made everything beautiful in His time."ECCLES. iii, II.

I.

WHAT a palace of beauty, my GOD, is this earth; From the star-spangled roof all around

To the green velvet sward, where of lowliest birth Countless lovely wild flowers are found.

Beauty dwells in each leaf lying low on the

ground;

Beauty smiles in each star shining o'er ;

Beauty speaks to the heart in each sight and

each sound;

And it bids us its MAKER adore.

II.

For it tells us that MAKER a Being must be
Full of goodness as well as of power;

Or HE ne'er would have made bright the stars which we see,

Or have tinted with beauty each flower.

And though oft we must own that our life's little

hour

Is not all joy like Heaven above;

Yet GOD smiles on our tears, like the sun on

the shower,

And we see the bright rainbow of Love.

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Singing in the Rain.

Rejoice evermore. -I THESS. v, 16.

I.

THE day is dull and dreary,

And heavy is my heart;

Almost, of life aweary,
I'm longing to depart.
But on a rose branch, swinging
Before my window pane,
There is a robin singing,

Yes, singing in the rain.

II.

Sweet red-breast, let me borrow
A lesson from thy voice;
And in the time of sorrow

Learn sweetly to rejoice.

So in each tearful hour

My griefs shall pass from me,

As in this autumn shower

The rain-drops glance from thee.

Human Life.

"As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field so he flourisheth; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more."-PSA. ciii, 15, 16.

I.

To the grass of the field,

GOD has likened our race;
And the truth thus revealed

I would thoughtfully trace.

II.

Human life is a day

Of both sunshine and shower;
And the passing winds play

With us every hour.