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To gentle offices of love

VI.

His feet are never flow;

He views, through mercy's melting eye,

A brother in a foe.

VII.

Peace from the bofom of his God,
My peace to him I give;

And when he kneels before the throne,
His trembling foul fhall live.

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AGAIN the Lord of life and light

Awakes the kindling ray ;

Unfeals the eye-lids of the morn,
And pours increafing day.

II.

O what a night was that, which wrapt

The Heathen world in gloom!

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O what a fun, which broke this day
Triumphant from the tomb !

III.

This day be grateful homage paid,
And loud hofannas fung;

Let gladnefs dwell in every heart,
And praise on every tongue.

IV.

Ten thousand differing lips fhall join
To hail this welcome morn,
Which featters bleffings from its wings
To nations yet unborn.

V.

Jefus the friend of human kind,
With ftrong compaffion mov'd,
Defcended like a pitying god,
To fave the fouls he lov'd.

VI.

The powers of darkness leagu'd in vain To bind his foul in death ;

He fhook their kingdom, when he fell, With his expiring breath.

VII.

Not long the toils of hell could keep
The hope of Judah's line;
Corruption never could take hold

On aught so much divine.

VIII.

And now his conquering chariot-wheels

Afcend the lofty skies;

While broke beneath his powerful cross,
Death's iron fceptre lies.

IX.

Exalted high at God's right hand,

And Lord of all below,

Through him is pard'ning love difpens'd,
And boundless bleffings flow.

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JEHOVAH reigns: let every nation hear,

And at his footstool bow with holy fear;

Let heaven's high arches echo with his name,
And the wide peopled earth his praise proclaim,

II.

He rules with wide and abfolute command
O'er the broad ocean, and the stedfaft land:

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Jehovah reigns unbounded and alone,
And all creation hangs beneath his throne.

III.

He faw the struggling beams of infant light
Shoot through the maffy gloom of ancient night;
His spirit hufh'd the elemental strife,

And brooded o'er the kindling feeds of life.
Seafons and months began the long proceffion,
And measur'd o'er the years in bright fucceffion.

IV.

The joyful fun fprung up th' ethereal way,
Strong as a giant, as a bridegroom gay;
And the pale moon diffus'd her shadowy light
Superior o'er the dusky brow of night;
Ten thousand glittering lamps the skies adorning,
Num'rous as dew-drops from the womb of morning.

V.

Earth's blooming face with rifing flowers he dreft,
And spread a verdant mantle o'er her breast :
Then from the hollow of his hand he pours

The circling waters round her winding fhores,
The new-born world in their cool arms embracing,,
And with foft murmurs still her banks careffing.

VI.

At length fhe rose complete in finish'd pride,
All fair and fpotlefs like a virgin bride;

Fresh with untarnish'd lustre as she stood,

Her maker blefs'd his work, and call'd it good: The morning stars with joyful acclamation,

Exulting fung and hail'd the new creation.

VII. Yet

VII.

Yet this fair world, the creature of a day,
Though built by God's right hand, muft pafs away 5
And long oblivion creep o'er mortal things,
The fate of empires and the pride of kings;
Eternal night shall veil their proudest story,
And drop the curtain o'er all human glory.
VIII.

The fun himself, with weary clouds oppreft,
Shall in his filent dark pavilion rest;

His golden urn fhall broke and useless lie,
Amidst the common ruins of the fky!
The stars rush headlong in the wild commotion,
And bathe their glittering foreheads in the ocean.

MRS. BARBAULD.

SE CT. XVII.

TO A YOUNG LADY.

HEALTH to my dear-and long unbroken years,

By ftorms unruffled, and unstain'd by tears:
Wing'd by new joys may each white minute fly
Spring on her cheek, and funshine in her eye:
O'er that dear breast, where love and pity fprings,
May peace eternal spread her downy wings;
Sweet beaming hope her path illumine still,
And fair ideas all her fancy fill.

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MRS. BARBAULD,

SECT.

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