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 minister pleasures of loftier tone, To the fubtler fenfe of mind. In the beauty that woes the eye around, A voice from the ocean's world of wonder, From the rushing wind, from the rolling thunder, Where in the foreft's lonely place, The fountain dwells fecure; The humbleft flower, the tinieft 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 fprings God fees and God alone. And would ye know what deeds are done And call down teachers many a one, Delightful task, to fingle out Some twinkling point of light And draw you of its scenery H Yet there be vast and dim dominions, Ocean without a shore, Which not the boldest angel-pinions And there be myfteries fathomless, One thing we know, that ages back, That darkness past, and light on high But when we looked along the sky, Again the angel-watch was fet We met again no more. God o'er their fate a veil has spread, That fighed the name of fin. God guard us fafe from aught of ill, To know His love, to do His will May naught avert the bleffing given HANKINSON. XXXII. DEATH. HE feeble pulfe, the gafping breath, The mourners by our parting bed, But from the much-loved world to part, To dream through life a gaudy dream To meet o'er foon our angry King, O Searcher of the fecret heart, Nor give to hell the victory. BISHOP HEBER.* XXXIII. PRAYER. O up and watch the new-born rill Canft thou her bold career foretell, This powerful defcription of untamed fin at its clofing hour will more forcibly remind the reader of that awful hymn by Peter Damian on "the Laft Day," which is given in this collection, than what is ufually found in modern compofitions. |