WEEP NOT FOR THOSE. Air-AVISON. WEEP not for those whom the veil of the tomb, In life's happy morning, hath hid from our eyes, Ere sin threw a blight o'er the spirit's young bloom, Or earth had profaned what was born for the skies. Death chill'd the fair fountain, ere sorrow had stain'd it, 'T was frozen in all the pure light of its course, And but sleeps till the sunshine of heaven has unchain'd it, To water that Eden where first was its source! Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb, In life's happy morning, hath hid from our eyes, Ere sin threw a blight o'er the spirit's young bloom, Or earth had profaned what was born for the skies. I'll read thy anger in the rack Of sunny brightness breaking through! There's nothing bright, above, below, There's nothing dark, below, above, SOUND THE LOUD TIMBREL. MIRIAM'S SONG. Air-AVISON.1 329 And Miriam, the Prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels and with dances.-Exod. xv. 20. Jehovah has triumph'd,—his people are free. His chariots, his horsemen, all splendid and brave- Praise to the Conqueror, praise to the Lord! THE TURF SHALL BE MY FRAGRANT SHRINE. Who shall return to tell Egypt the story His word was our arrow, his breath was our sword! Air-STEVENSON. THE turf shall be my fragrant shrine; My choir shall be the moonlight waves, Even more than music, breathes of Thee' I'll seek, by day, some glade unknown, All light and silence, like thy throne! And the pale stars shall be, at night, The only eyes that watch my rite. Thy heaven, on which 't is bliss to look, Shall be my pure and shining book, Where I shall read, in words of flame, The glories of thy wondrous name. 'This second verse, which I wrote long after the first, alludes to the fate of a very lovely and amiable girl, the daughter of the late Colonel Bainbrigge, who was married in Ashbourne church, October 31, 1815. and died of a fever in a few weeks after: the sound of her marriagebells seemed scarcely out of our ears when we heard of her death. During her last delir um she sung several hymns, in a voice even clearer and sweeter than usual, and among them were some from the present collection (particularly, There's nothing bright but Heaven), which this very interesting girl bad often beard during the summer. 2 Pii orant tacite. Of those she sent forth in the hour of her pride? GO, LET ME WEEP! Go, let me weep! there 's bliss in tears, And, while they pass'd, a fragrance threw, More idly than the summer's wind, COME NOT, OH LORD! COME not, oh Lord! in the dread robe of splendour Lord! thou rememberest the night, when thy nation' So, when the dread clouds of anger enfold thee, From us, in thy mercy, the dark side remove; While shrouded in terrors the guilty behold thee, Oh! turn upon us the mild light of thy Love! WERE NOT THE SINFUL MARY'S TEARS. Air-STEVENSON. WERE not the sinful Mary's tears An offering worthy heaven, When, bringing every balmy sweet And wiped them with that golden hair, Were not those sweets so humbly shed,That hair,-those weeping eyes,— And the sunk heart, that inly bled,Heaven's noblest sacrifice! Thou that hast slept in error's sleep, Oh wouldst thou wake in heaven, Like Mary kneel, like Mary weep, « Love much » 3-and be forgiven! And it came between the camp of th Fgyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these - Exod. xv. 20. My application of this passage 1 horrowed from som late prose writer, whose name I am ungrateful enough to forget * Instead of. On Egypt here, it will suit the music better to sing On these ; and in the third line of the next verse, While shrouded. nay, with the same view, be altered to « While wrapp'd.s 2. Her sius, which are many, are forgivea, for she loved much.--St Luke v. 47. 29. 1. When the passover of the tabernacles was revealed to the great law-giver in the mount, then the cherubic images which appeared in that structure were no longer surrounded by flames; for the tabernacle was a type of the dispensation of mercy, by which Jehovah confirmed bis gracious covenant to redeem mankind,-Observations on the Palm. 3 In St Augustine's treatise upon the advantages of a solitary life, addressed to his sister, there is the following fanciful passage, from which the thought of this song was taken :—. Te, sozor, nunquam nolo esse securam, sed timere, semperque tuam fragilitatem habere suspectam, ad instar pavida columbæ frequentare rivos aquarum et quasi in speculu accipitris cernere supervolantis effigiem et cavere. Rivi aquarum sententiæ sunt scripturarum, quæ de limpidissimo sapientiæ fonte profluentes, etc. etc.-De Vit. Eremit. ad Sororem. LORD, WHO SHALL BEAR THAT DAY. LORD, who shall bear that day, so dread, so splendid, And hear him swear by thee that time's no more?? When through the world thy awful call hath sounded- Then Faith shall fail, and holy Hope shall die, One lost in certainty, and one in joy.—Pazon. And the Angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by Hira that liveth for ever and ever, that there should be time no longer.-Rev. x. 5, 6. 3. Awake, ye dead, and come to judgment. 4. They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, -and all the angels with him.-Matt xxiv. 30, and xxv. 31. 3. From his face the earth and the heaven fled away.—Rev. xx. 11, When, with a glance, the eternal Judge shall sever Earth's evil spirits from the pure and bright, And say to those, «< Depart from me for ever!» To these, «Come, dwell with me in endless light! 1 When each and all in silence take their wayWho, mighty God, oh who shall bear that day? OH! TEACH ME TO LOVE THEE. Ou! teach me to love thee, to feel what thou art, Like some pure temple that shines apart, Reserved for thy worship alone! In joy and in sorrow, through praise and through blame, Though born in this desert, and doom'd by my birth, Like some rude dial, that, fix'd on earth, Still looks for its light from the sky! WEEP, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. Air-STEVENSON. WEEP, weep for him, the man of God- His doctrines fell like heaven's rain, Oh, ne'er shall Israel see again A chief, to God and her so true. Remember ye his parting gaze, His farewell song by Jordan's tide, He saw the promised land-and died! → 1. And before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, yo h'ess of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you, etc. then shall he say also unto them on the left band, Depart from me, y curse i, etc And these shall go away to everlasting punishment, but the trous into life eternal.-- Matt. xxx. 32, et seq. 2. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab » As he was going to embrace Eleazer and Joshua, and was discoursing with them, a cloud stood over him on the sudden, ast disappeared in a certain valley, although he wrote in the Hory k that he died, which was done out of fear, lest they should ve say that, because of his extraordinary virtue, he went to Gad -phus, Book it. chap, vin. 2. Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the la risen upon thee. Is his. No more shall discord haunt thy ways,7 The sun no more shall make thee bright,8 Nor moon shall lend her lustre to thee; But GCD Himself shall be thy Light, And flash eternal glory through thee. Thy sun shall never more go down; A ray, from heav'n itself descended, Shall light thy everlasting crown Thy days of mourning all are ended.9 7. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising..-Isaiah Ix. 2. Lift up thine eyes round about and see; all they gather them. selves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side Ib. 3. The multitude of camels shall cover thee; the dromedaries of Midian and Fphah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and incense, -lb. 4 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows-lb. 5. Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them.— Ib. The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the fir-tree, the pinetree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious.—Ib. 7. Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls, Salvation, and thy Gates, Praise.-Ib. THERE IS A BLEAK DESERT. THERE is a bleak Desert, where daylight grows weary What may that Desert be? 'Tis Life, cheerless Life, where the few joys that come Are lost, like that daylight, for 't is not their home. There is a lone Pilgrim, before whose faint eyes The water he pants for but sparkles and fliesWho may that Pilgrim be? Tis Man, hapless Man, through this life tempted on By fair shining hopes, that in shining are gone. There is a bright Fountain, through that Desert stealing, T is Truth, holy Truth, that, like springs under ground, There is a fair Spirit, whose wand hath the spell Tis Faith, humble Faith, who hath learn'd that, where'er SINCE FIRST THY WORD. SINCE first thy word awaked my heart, All bonds of earth I sever Thee, oh God, and only Thee Like him, whose fetters dropp'd away Hath from her chains arisen. I live for, now and ever. HARK! 'T IS THE BREEZE. HARK!-'t is the breeze of twilight calling Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands.. Thy sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for bright-Isaiah Ix. ness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory,-Ib. In singing, the following line had better be adopted Can but by the gifted of heaven be found.. Thy sun shall no more go down; for the Lord shall be thine 3. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a verlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended."-light shined in the prison, and his chains fell off from his hands. — |