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See, His frail bark the waters fill:

Yet why that faithless dread?

Before His mighty "Peace, be still," The storm is fled.

1869.

IV.

A weeping sinner dares to touch

And bathe His feet with tears:

And "Go in peace: thou lovest much,"
Is all she hears.

V.

His hour is come: sad bosoms heave

With bodings unexpress'd:
Peace-grief itself forgets to grieve
At His bequest.

VI.

O never, never, gentle Dove,

Let Thy soft pleadings cease,
Until we bask in light, and love,

And perfect peace.

THE ROCK OF AGES.

"Thou art the same, and Thy years shall have no end." -Ps. cii. 27.

O GOD, the Rock of Ages,
Who evermore hast been,
What time the tempest rages,

Our dwelling-place serene :

Before Thy first creations,

O Lord, the same as now,

To endless generations

The Everlasting Thou!

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1862.

A sleep, a dream, a story

By strangers quickly told,
An unremaining glory

Of things that soon are old.

O Thou, who canst not slumber,
Whose light grows never pale,

Teach us aright to number

Our years before they fail.

On us Thy mercy lighten,

On us Thy goodness rest,

And let Thy Spirit brighten

The hearts Thyself hast bless'd.

Lord, crown our faith's endeavour
With beauty and with grace,
Till, clothed in light for ever,
We see Thee face to face:
A joy no language measures;
A fountain brimming o'er;
An endless flow of pleasures;
An ocean without shore.

THE HIDING-PLACE.

"A man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land."-Isa. xxxii. 2.

O JESU, Saviour of the lost,

My rock and hiding-place;

By storms of sin and sorrow tost
I seek Thy sheltering grace.

Guilty, forgive me, Lord, I cry;
Pursued by foes I come;

A sinner, save me, or I die;

An outcast,—take me home.

Once safe in Thine Almighty arms,

Let storms come on amain;

There danger never, never harms,

There death itself is gain.

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