Comforts that shall o'er death prevail, SECTION VIII. The Character of Christ. In deeds of mercy, words of peace, 3. To spread the rays of heav'nly light, To preach glad tidings to the poor, 4. Lowly in heart, by all his friends, He wash'd their feet, he wip'd their tears. 6. In the last hour of deep distress, With soul resign'd, he bow'd and said, "Thy will, not mine, be done!" 7. Be Christ my pattern, and my guide! O may I tread his sacred steps, CHAPTER V. PROMISCUOUS PIECES. SECTION I. Gratitude to the Supreme Being. 1. How cheerful along the gay mead, The daisy and cowslip appear ! COTTON. ENFIELD? The flocks, as they carelessly feed, Rejoice in the spring of the year. 2. The myrtles that shade the gay bowers, The herbage that springs from the sod, Trees, plants, cooling fruits, and sweet flowers,. All rise to the praise of my God. 3. Shall man, the great master of all, The only insensible prove? Forbid it, fair gratitude's call! Forbid it, devotion and love! 4. The LORD, who such wonders could raise, And still can destroy with a nod, My lips shall incessantly praise; My heart shall rejoice in my God. SECTION II. Acknowledgment of Divine favors. 1. WHENE'ER I take my walks abroad, What shall I render to my GOD, 2. Not more than others I deserve, 3. How many children in the street, While I am cloth'd from head to feet, 4. While some poor creatures scarce can tell, I have a home wherein to dwell, 5. While others early learn to swear, LORD! I am taught thy name to fear, 6. Are these thy favors, day by day, Then let me love thee more than they, And try to serve thee best SECTION III. The excellence of the Bible. 1. GREAT GOD! with wonder and with praise, But still thy wisdom, power, and grace, 2. The stars, which in their courses roll, But thy good word informs my soul 3. The fields provide me food, and show But fruits of life and glory grow 4. Here are my choicest treasures hid, Here my desires are satisfied, And hence my hopes arise. 5. Lord! make me understand thy law 6. For here I learn how Jesus died, By day to read these wonders o'er, SECTION IV. 1. How does the little busy bee With the sweet food she makes. 3. In work of labor or of skill, .I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still, WATTS 1 For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or work, or healthful play, That I may give for every day SECTION V. 1. How foolish they who lengthen night And hear the music of the grove! SECTION VI. 1. IN yonder glass, behold a drowning Fly! Its little feet, how vainly does it ply! WATTS. ARMSTRONG. Poór helpless insect! and will no one save? Will no one snatch thee from the threat'ning grave? My finger's top shall prove a friendly shore, There, trembler, all thy dangers now are o'er. Wipe thy wet wings, and banish all thy fear: Go, join thy num'rous kindred in the air. Away it flies; resumes its harmless play; And lightly gambols in the golden ray. 2. Smile not, spectators at this humble deed: For you, perhaps, a nobler task's decreed: A young and sinking family to save; To raise the thoughtless from destruction's wave! To a Redbreast. LITTLE bird, with bosom red, Pleasure in thy glancing eye ; SECTION VIII. To a child five years old. 1. FAIREST flower, all flowers excelling, Which in Milton's page we see : Flowers of Eve's embower'd dwelling, Are, my fair one, types of thee. 2. Mark, my Polly, how the roses Emulate thy damask cheek; How the bud its sweets discloses→ Buds thy op'ning bloom bespeak. 3. Lilies are by plain direction, Emblems of a double kind; 4. But dear girl, both flowers and beauty SECTION IX. The Rose. LANGHORNE COTTON 1. How fair is the rose! what a beautiful flow'r ! |