The Righteous. "Say ye to the righteous, It shall be well with him." "Happy were men, if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good!" FOUNTAIN. H! how supremely blest is he, Who through the darkest cloud can see The light of other skies! Who trembles not beneath the blast That rends the oak in twain, Knowing that when the storm is past Knowing that the Eternal's word Heaven's majesty controls; Without His sovereign will, No storm but waits on His decree, His mandate to fulfil. Jabid and Golix}. "But the might's with the right; From the cloud breaks the light; SHERIDAN KNOWLES. B EHOLD! the giant warrior of Gath Comes like the potentate of Heaven and earth; Scorns with contempt the bold intrepid youth Arrayed in all the panoply of Truth; Tells him his flesh and body shall be given A feast for reptiles and the fowls of heaven. But, hark! that brave, undaunted youth replies, Lifting on high his Heaven-directed eyes— "The ravenous vulture and the savage beast Shall on thy carcase, O Goliah! feast." Nearer and nearer, see, the champions draw, While halting armies wait with speechless awe : Nerved by that Power that rends the earth in twain, And the same moment closes it again,— Though by a stripling slung, the well-aimed stone Sinks in the forehead of the champion! Drive. "Of all the causes which conspire to blind Р I've seen him with a scornful eye Turn from the cottage of the poor, And pass the helpless beggar by, As but a worm, and nothing more. But then, again, I've seen him fall, Dashed headlong back from whence he rose, His boasted wealth, his pomp, his all, Exchanged for want, with all its woes. |