I'll seek, by day, some glade unknown, Thy heaven, on which 'tis bliss to look, I'll read thy anger in the rack Of sunny brightness breaking through! There's nothing bright, above, below, There's nothing dark, below, above, This second verse, which I wrote long after the first, alludes to the fate of a very lovely and amiable girl, the daughter of the late Colonel Bainbrigge, who was married in Ashbourne church, October 31, 1815, and died of a fever in a few weeks after the sound of her marriagebells seemed scarcely out of our ears when we heard of her death. During her last delirium she sung several hymns, in a voice even clearer and sweeter than usual, and among them were some from the present collection (particularly, There's nothing bright but Heaven), which this very interesting girl had often heard during the summer. Pii orant tacite. Praise to the Conqueror, praise to the Lord! Of those she sent forth in the hour of her pride? GO, LET ME WEEP! Go, let me weep! there's bliss in tears, When he who sheds them inly feels Effaced by every drop that steals. Leave me to sigh o'er hours that flew More idly than the summer's wind, More idly than the summer's wind, I have so altered the character of this air, which is from the b ginning of one of Avison's old-fashioned concertos, that, without its i acknowledgment, it could hardly, I think, be recognised And it came to pass, that, in the morning watch, the Lord loc unto the host of the Egyptians, through the pillar of fire and of is cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians.» — Egod, xiv, 34 Air-HAYDN. As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean, Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So, deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion, Unheard by the world, rises silent to thee, And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these.-Exod. xiv, 20. My application of this passage is borrowed from some late prose writer, whose name I am ungrateful enough to forget. Instead of On Egypt here, it will suit the music better to sing On these; and in the third line of the next verse, While shrouded" may, with the same view, be altered to While wrapp'd. 3. Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much.St Luke, vii, 47 ALMIGHTY GOD! CHORUS OF PRIESTS. Air-MOZART. ALMIGHTY God! when round thy shrine The palm-tree's heavenly branch we twine, 6 (Emblem of Life's eternal ray, And Love that « fadeth not away,-) And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.Isaiah, XXV, 7 The rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth.-Isaiah, xxv, 8. 3 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; neither shall there be any more pain.-Rev, xxi, 4. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Rev. xxi, 5. 5. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.Rev. xxii, 17. 6 The Scriptures having declared that the Temple of Jerusalem was a type of the Messiab, it is natural to conclude that the Palms, which made so conspicuous a figure in that structure, represented that Life and Immortality which were brought to fight by the Gospel. Observations on the Palm, as a sacred Emblem, by W. Tighe. ANGEL OF CHARITY. ANGEL of Charity, who from above 1 And be carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims, and palm-trees, and open flowers,— 1 Kings, vi, 29. When the passover of the tabernacles was revealed to the great law-giver in the mount, then the cherubic images which appeared in that structure were no longer surrounded by flames; for the tabernacle was a type of the dispensation of mercy, by which Jehovah confirmed his gracious covenant to redeem mankind."-Observations on the Palm. In St Augustine's treatise upon the advantages of a solitary life, addressed to his sister, there is the following fanciful passage, from which the thought of this song was taken Te, soror, nunquam nolo esse securam, sed timere, semperque tuam fragilitatem habere suspectam, ad instar pavida columbæ frequentare rivos aquarum et quasi in speculo accipitris cernere supervolantis effigiem et cavere. itivi aquarum sententiæ sunt scripturarum, quæ de limpidissimo sapientia fonte profluentes, etc. etc.-De Vit. Eremit. ad Sororem, BEHOLD THE SUN. Air-LORD MORNINGTON. BEHOLD the sun, how bright From yonder east he springs, As if the soul of life and light Were breathing from his wings: So bright the gospel broke So fresh the dreaming world awoke in truth's full radiance then! Before yon sun arose, Stars cluster'd through the skyBut oh how dim, how pale were those, To his one burning eye! So truth lent many a ray, To bless the Pagan's nightBut, Lord, how weak, how cold were they, To thy one glorious light! LORD, WHO SHALL BEAR THAT DAY. LORD, who shall bear that day, so dread, so splendid, And hear him swear by thee that time 's no more!1 When through the world thy awful call hath sounded. Wake, oh ye dead, to judgment wake, ye dead! 3 And from the clouds, by seraph eyes surrounded, The Saviour shall put forth his radiant head;4 While earth and heaven before him pass away-5 Who, mighty God, oh who shall bear that day? 1. Then Faith shall fail, and holy Hope shall die, One lost in certainty, and one in joy.-PRIOR. And the Angel which I saw stand upon the sea and apo the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by Him that liveth f ever and ever, that there should be time no longer. » — Røv. x, 5, § 3 Awake, ye dead, and come to judgment. 4 They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of beaves. -and all the angels with him.- Matt xxiv, 36, and xxv, 3. 5. From his face the earth and the beaven fled away.-R. 15. 1. And before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you, etc. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from m, ye cursed, etc. « And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal.-Matt. xxv, 32, et seq. 2 «And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab.» Deut. xxxiv, 8. 5. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."-Ibid. ver. 6. 4. My doctrines shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew.Moses' Song. 5. I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.-Ver. 5. Yet died he not as men who sink, Before our eyes, to soulless clay; But, changed to spirit, like a wink Of summer lightning, pass'd away!! Weep, children of Israel, weep! LIKE MORNING, WHEN HER EARLY BREEZE. LIKE morning, when her early breeze Thy grace can send its breathings o'er Till David touch'd his sacred lyre, So sleeps the soul, till thou, O Lord, Shall deign to touch its lifeless chordTill, waked by thee, its breath shall rise In music, worthy of the skies! COME, YE DISCONSOLATE. Air-German. COME, ye disconsolate, where'er you languish, Joy of the desolate, light of the straying, Hope, when all others die, fadeless and pure, Here speaks the Comforter, in God's name saying- Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot cure." Go, ask the infidel, what boon he brings us, What charm for aching hearts he can reveal, Sweet as that heavenly promise Hope sings us« Earth has no sorrow that God cannot heal.»> AWAKE, ARISE, THY LIGHT IS COME. Air-STEVENSON. AWAKE, arise, thy light is come;" The nations, that before outshone thee, Now at thy feet lie dark and dumbThe glory of the Lord is on thee! As he was going to embrace Eleazer and Joshua, and was still discoursing with them, a cloud stood over him on the sudden, and he disappeared in a certain valley, although he wrote in the Holy Books, that he died, which was done out of fear, lest they should venture to say that, because of his extraordinary virtue, he went to God. Josephus, book iv, chap. viii. « Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord s risen upon thee.•—Isaiak, Ix. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.-Isaiah, Ix. 2 Lift up thine eyes round about and see; all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side."-lb. 3 The multitude of camels shall cover thee; the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and incense.»—Ib. Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows-lb. 5 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish, first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them.-lb. The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious. -Ib. 7 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls, Salvation, and thy gates, Praise.—Ib. My own, elect, and righteous Land! THERE IS A BLEAK DESERT. Air-CRESCENTINI. THERE is a bleak Desert, where daylight grows weary Of wasting its smile on a region so dreary What may that Desert be? "T is Life, cheerless Life, where the few joys that come Are lost, like that daylight, for 't is not their home. There is a lone Pilgrim, before whose faint eyes "T is Man, hapless Man, through this life tempted on There is a bright Fountain, through that Desert stealin 'Tis Truth, holy Truth, that, like springs under ground, By the gifted of Heaven alone can be found. There is a fair Spirit, whose wand hath the spell 'Tis Faith, humble Faith, who hath learn'd that, where er Her wand stoops to worship, the Truth must be there. SINCE FIRST THY WORD. Air-NICHOLAS FREEMAN. SINCE first thy word awaked my heart, I live for, now and ever. Like him, whose fetters dropp'd away Hath from her chains arisen. Return to bondage?-never! I live for, now and ever. HARK! 'T IS THE BREEZE. Air-ROUSSEAU. HARK!-'t is the breeze of twilight calling Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my bands. In singing, the following line had better be adopted * Thy sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for bright-Isaiah, Ix. ness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.-16. Thy sun shall no more go down; for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.» Ib. Can but by the gifted of heaven be found. 3 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a lit shined in the prison, and his chains fell off from his hands,-Ach xii, 7. |