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He snatched his sister from the wreck;

Faint was her welcome dear;

Yet strong her white arms twined his neck:"Blest William, art thou here?"

The wild waves swell like mountains on,

The blasts impetuous sweep:

Where is the heir of England's throne?
Go, ask the surging deep.
He slumbers in the coral grove,

Pale pearls his bed adorn;
A martyr to that brother's love
Which with his life was born.

Wo was in England's halls that day,
Wo in her royal towers;

While low her haughty monarch lay,
To wail his perished flowers.
And though protracted years bestow
Bright honor's envied store,

Yet on that crowned and lofty brow
The smile sat never more.

LESSON CXXVIII.

The "Frenzied Child of Grace."—Crabbe.

SUCH were the evils, man of sin,

That I was fated to sustain ;
And add to all, without-within,

A soul defiled with every stain
That man's reflecting mind can pain;

That pride, wrong, rage, despair can make;
In fact, they'd nearly touched my brain,
And Reason on her throne would shake.

But pity will the vilest seek,

If punished guilt will not repine :-
I heard a heavenly teacher speak,

And felt the sun of mercy shine:
I hailed the light! the birth divine!

And then was sealed among the few;
Those angry fiends beheld the sign,
And from me in an instant flew.

Come, hear how thus the charmers cry To wandering sheep, the strays of sin; While some the wicket-gate pass by,

And some will knock and enter in Full joyful 'tis a soul to win,

For he that winneth souls is wise; Now hark! the holy strains begin,

And thus the sainted preacher cries

"Pilgrim, burthened with thy sin,

Come the way to Zion's gate;

There, till mercy let thee in,

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Knock, and weep, and watch, and wait. Knock!—He knows the sinner's cry: Weep!-He loves the mourner's tears: Watch!-for saving grace is nigh : Wait―till heavenly light appears.

"Hark! it is the Bridegroom's voice; Welcome, pilgrim, to thy rest; Now within the gate rejoice,

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Safe, and sealed, and bought, and blest! Safe-from all the lures of vice,

Sealed-by signs the chosen know, Bought by love, and life the price, Blest the mighty debt to owe.

Holy pilgrim! what for thee,

In a world like this, remain?

From thy guarded breast shall flee.
Fear, and shame, and doubt, and pain.
Fear the hope of heaven shall fly,

Shame-from glory's view retire,
Doubt-in certain rapture die,
Pain-in endless bliss expire."

LESSON CXXIX.

Sabbath Morning.JAMES GRAHAME.

How still the morning of the hallowed day!
Mute is the voice of rural labor, hushed

The ploughboy's whistle, and the milk-maid's song.
The scythe lies glittering in the dewy wreath
Of tedded grass, mingled with fading flowers,
That yester-morn bloomed, waving in the breeze.
Sounds the most faint attract the ear-the hum
Of early bee, the trickling of the dew,
The distant bleating midway up the hill.
Calmness sits throned on yon unmoving cloud.
To him who wanders o'er the upland leas,
The blackbird's note comes mellower from the dale;
And sweeter from the sky the gladsome lark
Warbles his heaven-tuned song; the lulling brook
Murmurs more gently down the deep-worn glen;
While, from yon lowly roof, whose curling smoke
O'ermounts the mist, is heard, at intervals,
The voice of psalms-the simple song of praise.
With dove-like wings, Peace o'er yon village broods;
The dizzying mill-wheel rests; the anvil's din

Hath ceased; all, all around is quietness.

Less fearful on this day, the limping hare

Stops, and looks back, and stops, and looks on man, Her deadliest foe. The toil-worn horse, set free,

Unheedful of the pasture, roams at large;
And, as his stiff, unwieldy bulk he rolls,
His iron-armed hoofs gleam in the morning ray.
But chiefly man the day of rest enjoys.

Hail, Sabbath! thee I hail, the poor man's day.
On other days the man of toil is doomed

To eat his joyless bread, lonely; the ground

Both seat and board; screened from the winter's cold
And summer's heat by neighboring hedge or tree;—
But on this day, embosomed in his home,
He shares the frugal meal with those he loves;
With those he loves he shares the heartfelt joy
Of giving thanks to God-not thanks of form,
A word and a grimace, but reverently,
With covered face, and upward earnest eye.
Hail, Sabbath! thee I hail, the poor
man's day.
The pale mechanic now has leave to breathe
The morning air, pure from the city's smoke;
While, wandering slowly up the river side,
He meditates on Him, whose power he marks
In each green tree that proudly spreads the bough,
As in the tiny dew-bent flowers that bloom
Around its roots; and, while he thus surveys,
With elevated joy, each rural charm,

He hopes, yet fears presumption in the hope,
That heaven may be one Sabbath without end.

LESSON CXXX.

Anticipation of the Millennium.-COWPER.

THE groans of nature in this nether world, Which Heaven has heard for ages, have an end. Foretold by prophets, and by poets sung,

Whose fire was kindled at the prophet's lamp,

The time of rest, the promised Sabbath' comes.
Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh
Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course
Over a sinful world; and what remains
Of this tempestuous state of human things
Is merely as the working of the sea
Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest:

For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds
The dust that waits upon his sultry march,
When sin hath moved him, and his wrath is hot,
Shall visit earth in mercy; shall descend
Propitious in his chariot paved with love;
And what his storms have blasted and defaced
For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair.
Sweet is the harp of prophecy; too sweet
Not to be wronged by a mere mortal touch:
Nor can the wonders it records be sung
To meaner music, and not suffer loss.
But when a poet, or when one like me,
Happy to rove among poetic flowers,

Though poor in skill to rear them, lights, at last,
On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair,
Such is the impulse and the spur he feels
To give it praise proportioned to its worth,
That not t' attempt it, arduous as he deems
The labor, were a task more arduous still.

O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true-
Scenes of accomplished bliss! which who can see,
Though but in distant prospect, and not feel
His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy?
Rivers of gladness water all the earth,

And clothe all climes with beauty; the reproach
Of barrenness is past. The fruitful field
Laughs with abundance; and the land, once lean,
Or fertile only in its own disgrace,
Exults to see its thistly curse repealed.
The various seasons woven into one,

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