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Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. - Hymns and Spiritual Songs (bk. II, hymn XIX) [Life] Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. - Hymns and Spiritual Songs--Funeral Thoughts (bk. II, vol. IX, hymn 63) [Death : Graves : Sound] How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain: But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best; He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again. - Moral Songs--A Summer Evening [Sunset] 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed, Turns his sides and his shoulders and his heavy head. "A little more sleep, and a little more slumber;" Thus he wastes half his days, and his hours without number, And when he gets up, he sits folding his hands, Or walks about sauntering, or trifling he stands. - Moral Songs--The Sluggard (l. 1) [Idleness : Sleep] What heavy guilt upon him lies! How cursed is his name! The ravens shall pick out his eyes, And eagles eat the same. - Obedience [Punishment] Whene'er I take my walks abroad. How many poor I see! - Praise for Mercies [Poverty] How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. - Praise for the Gospel [Scripture] Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you've collected thrice The train of action through the day! Where have my feet chose out their way? What have I learnt, where'er I've been, From all I've heard, from all I've seen? What have I more that's worth the knowing? What have I done that's worth the doing? What have I sought that I should shun? What duty have I left undone, Or into what new follies run? These self-inquiries are the road That lead to virtue and to God. - Self Examination [Self-examination] And he that does one fault at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two. - Song XV [Lying] When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. - Songs and Hymns (bk. II, no. 65) [Religion] Fairest of all the lights above, Thou sun, whose beams adorn the spheres, And with unwearied swiftness move, To form the circles of our years. - Sun, Moon and Stars, Praise Ye the Lord [Sun] How fair is the Rose! what a beautiful flower. The glory of April and May! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day. Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue to boast, Above all the flowers of the field; When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield! - The Rose [Roses] Displaying page 4 of 4 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 [4]
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