CONTENTS.

How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

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Elijah's Interview with God..

The Mother and her dying Boy

7

Lo, we have left all, and followed Thee

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Fly, ye Hours

"Return unto Me, and I will return unto thee"

"Whither shall I fly from Thy presence?"

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"My Beloved is mine, and I am His "

A Summer Day in Winter

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"Is this thy kindness to thy Friend ?"

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The Infant's address to departing Day-light

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"It is I be not afraid"

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Inscription on a Monument to S-P-S-.

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To Ellen, weeping in Church on the Anniversary of her

Father's Death, when Fifteen Years old

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On dreaming of my Mother

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"It doth not yet appear what we shall be"

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"O that I had wings like a dove, and then would I flee

away and be at rest"

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POEMS,

CHIEFLY RELIGIOUS.

"HOW SHALL WE SING THE LORD'S SONG

IN A STRANGE LAND?"

THE

song of God, so nobly sung

By angels in a higher sphere,

Shall my unworthy heart and tongue
Attempt its numbers here?

With spirit cleaving to the dust,

How should I hope to glow and soar? How speak of heavenly joy and trust,

Till I have felt them more?

An heir of guilt, a child of sin,

An exile in a world like this,

What should I find without, within,
To match with Him and His?

In vain I spread my flickering wings;
In vain I strive aloft to flee:

Great Lord of lords, and King of kings,
I cannot sing of Thee!

I want a seraph's lofty voice,

I want a seraph's soaring wing, Before I make such themes my choice, And God's dread glories sing.

Thou needest not a note of mine

To swell the triumphs of thy throne,

Where myriads round thee bend and shine,

And Heaven is all thy own!