And from the clouds, by seraph eyes surrounded, The Saviour shall put forth his radiant head *; While Earth and Heav'n before Him pass away+ Who, Mighty GOD, oh who shall bear that day? When, with a glance, th' Eternal Judge shall sever To these, "Come, dwell with me in endless light!"‡ * "They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven - and all the angels with him."— Matt. xxiv. 30. and xxv. 31. "From his face the earth and the heaven fled away."Rev. xx. 11. + "And before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another. "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you, &c. “Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, &c. "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal."— Matt. xxv. 32. et seq. OH, TEACH ME TO LOVE THEE. (AIR. HAYDN.) Он, teach me to love Thee, to feel what thou art, Like some pure temple, that shines apart, In joy and in sorrow, through praise and through blame, Thus still let me, living and dying the same, In Thy service bloom and decay – Like some lone altar, whose votive flame In holiness wasteth away. Though born in this desert, and doom'd by my birth To pain and affliction, to darkness and dearth, On Thee let my spirit rely Like some rude dial, that, fix'd on earth, Still looks for its light from the sky. WEEP, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. (AIR. STEVENSON.) WEEP, weep for him, the Man of GOD* His doctrine fell like Heaven's rain ‡, His words refresh'd like Heaven's dew— Oh, ne'er shall Israel see again A Chief, to GOD and her so true. Weep, children of Israel, weep! "And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab." - Deut. xxxiv. 8. "And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.”. ver. 6. Ibid. + My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shali distil as the dew."- Moses' Song. Remember ye his parting gaze, His farewell song by Jordan's tide, He saw the promised land and died.* Yet died he not as men who sink, "I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.". - Deut. xxxiv. 4. "As he was going to embrace Eleazer and Joshua, and was still discoursing with them, a cloud stood over him on the sudden, and he disappeared in a certain valley, although he wrote in the Holy Books that he died, which was done out of fear, lest they should venture to say that, because of his extraordinary virtue, he went to God."―Josephus, book iv. chap. viii. LIKE MORNING, WHEN HER EARLY BREEZE. (AIR. - BEETHOVEN.) LIKE morning, when her early breeze Thy Grace can send its breathings o'er Till David touch'd his sacred lyre, So sleeps the soul, till Thou, oh LORD, Shalt deign to touch its lifeless chord Till, waked by Thee, its breath shall rise In music, worthy of the skies! |