SONG WRITTEN FOR A SOCIETY, WHOSE MOTTO WAS WHEN "Friendship, Love, and Truth" abound Among a band of BROTHERS, The cup of joy goes gaily round, Each shares the bliss of others: Sweet roses grace the thorny way The flowers that shed their leaves to-day Shall bloom again to-morrow: How grand in age, how fair in youth, Are holy "FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, and TRUTH!” On halcyon wings our moments pass, Old TIME lays down his scythe and glass, His reverend front adorning, Night soften'd into morning. How grand in age, how fair in youth, Are holy "FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, and TRUTH!" From these delightful fountains flow Can man desire, can Heaven bestow, Where every Star, with modest light, How grand in age, how fair in youth, Are holy "FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, and TRUTH!" 1799. RELIGION. AN OCCASIONAL HYMN. way; THROUGH shades and solitudes profound Welcome, thrice welcome, to his eye, The sudden moon's inspiring light, When forth she sallies through the sky, The guardian angel of the night. Thus mortals, blind and weak, below The world's a wilderness of woe, Till mild RELIGION, from above, The bow of promise in a storm. Then guilty passions wing their flight, RELIGION'S yoke is soft and light, Ambition, pride, revenge depart, And folly flies her chastening rod; She makes the humble contrite heart A temple of the living GOD. Beyond the narrow vale of time, At her approach the Grave appears Baptized with her renewing fire, "THE JOY OF GRIEF." OSSIAN. SWEET the hour of tribulation, When the heart can freely sigh, And the tear of resignation Twinkles in the mournful eye. Have you felt a kind emotion Tremble through your troubled breast; Soft as evening o'er the ocean, When she charms the waves to rest? Have you lost a friend, or brother? Heard a father's parting breath? Gazed upon a lifeless mother, Till she seem'd to wake from death? Have you felt a spouse expiring In your arms before your view? Watch'd the lovely soul retiring From her eyes that broke on you? Did not grief then grow romantic, |