Hail! Emmanuel, Great Deliverer! Live for ever in our days— Then fhall come the Great Meffiah, Now triumphant and renowned. Hail! Meffiah, reign for ever; Heaven to Earth reflects the found. Heaven and Earth, with all their legions, RAFFLES. XXXI. SONG OF THE ANGELS. AIL! Hail! Hail! Welcome to your realm of beauty! Welcome to your bleft abode ! Join our voices to falute ye, Now let triumph ride the gale, ; Peace and joy and praise prevail ! Finished is the fix-days' wonder, Since Jehovah's voice of might, We have watched the grand progrefsion Of the mighty lyre of Nature Ye, in whom the beauty liveth, We have longed and watched to view, For ye,- ye have a foul like ours; It heaves in your bofom, it beams thro' your eye; Baptized in the feelings, endowed with the powers, That burn through the depth of eternity. And happy are we, unto whom 'tis given To tend you as guardians, and cheer you as friends, Happy to speed from our homes in Heaven, And carry the bleffings your Father fends. We will encamp you around by night, Like the hills that watch in fhadowy night Round the lake fo pure Which, dreaming of distant worlds of light, And as that still lake awakes and rejoices, So ye shall awake at our gentle call, From your pillow of fearn and heather; And we'll fing to the God and Father of all, Our Matin praise together. When past the freshness of the dawning, And when the fapphire gates of even Open to realms beyond; When Earth to the embrace of Heaven, Doth glowingly respond; When sweet and flumbrous melodies As Nature fits, with half-fhut eyes, Ye fhall catch the gleam of our golden hair, And we'll wander on earth, or hover in air, And those whofe miffion with daylight closes, Shall leave you a chaplet of Heaven's own roses, Yet not to the animal tafte alone Is our office of love confined; We will minifter pleasures of loftier tone, In the beauty that woes the eye around, fee and hear. A voice from the ocean's world of wonder, From the mountain's creft elate, From the rushing wind, from the rolling thunder, Announces "GOD IS GREAT." Where in the foreft's lonely place, The fountain dwells fecure; With fmiles upon its dimpled face, It tells us "GOD IS PURE." The humbleft flower, the tiniest creature, The bleffing with the sunshine given, Heaven speaks to earth, and earth to Heaven Thus borrowing from material things We'll teach of love, whofe fecret springs God fees and God alone. And would ye know what deeds are done In other worlds afar? And call down teachers many a one, From planet and from star ? Delightful task, to fingle out Some twinkling point of light And draw you of its scenery H |