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A REFLECTION on the Clofe of the YEAR: occafioned by hearing the Bells at Midnight.

E creatures of a day! can you rejoice

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That all-important Time fo fwiftly flies?
And fcorn Reflection's monitory voice,

That calls, that warns, that wooes you to be wife?

For ever ye departed months, adieu!

What heart that knows your value can be gay?
Who loath, yet by Reflection forced to view,
How unimproved the hours are fled away!

Yet oft her warning voice (before they past)

Cried, "Seize the precious minutes! Make them thine!
Ah! how wilt thou account for fo much waste
Of treasure, lent for purpofes divine ?"

Thy voice, Reflection, now refolved I hear,

To thee the folemn midnight hour I give:
And afk, while musing on the finished year,
How have I spent my time-and why I live?

How I have spent my time? Reflection say;
She answers, "Wafted many a precious Hour,
And thrown, in careless indolence away

The Days which claimed for God each active power."

Why do I live? "Paft errors to deplore,
And humbly at thy Saviour's crofs to bow,
To afk his aid, and all his grace implore,
To dedicate to him the prefent Now."

Then, O my Lord, to thy atoning blood,

For pardon, peace, and power I meekly fly:
Forgive my follies paft'; then O my God,
Inftru&t me how to live-and how to die!

END of VOL. IX.

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