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Thou our fathers' God and ours ! Teach us all to love and fear Thee : Lead us through life ' s varied hours Fixed on heaven and ever near Thee . When our little task is done , May our children still revere Thee . So Thy work shall hasten on Till assembled worlds shall hear Thee . A . ^—nr—^»
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For ah ! thy shade , tho * dark and deep it be , Can hide them not from Him to whom its gloom
Is bright as noontide . Let the solemn thought Come o'er my soul , that even as now in sleep , So shall we lay us down in death ere long , And for a darker season . Kings and slaves Shall soon repose upon the self-same bed-That bed the clav-clods of the valley . These
Then must all sleep ; seed in the bosom of earth , To shoot or weeds or flowers when the fair spring Of immortality shall dawn ; and then Be gathered with the general harvest in , And garnered in the stores of Heavenor swept With the vile chaff away . Eternal God ! Thou who art wrapt in clouds of majesty
A ad dazzling light—the Lord—the Judge of all ! To Thee we would commend us—hear our prayer—Do all Thy will on earth as done in heaven ; And be our law , Thy law—Thy will , our will !
Thou wiliest Thy children happiness : Thy hand , Thy guardian hand , has given us that pure joy Which angels share , that silent source of bliss , That sweet anticipation of Thyself , Flowing from a pure heart ! Thy will be done . A .
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LINES WRITTEN ON AN EVENING OF JUNE . Oh ! ' tis soothing to list when the lone woodlark sings , In the beautiful haze of a summerday ' s even , While soft dews and pnre incense the passing gale flings , And the star of love gleams like a spirit in heaven .
Oh ! 'tis soothing to list , at that magical time , To the whispers that breathe through the glen and the bower—To the low breeze that mellows the far evening chime , While it prints its sweet kisses on wave , leaf and flower .
For there dwells a deep charm in that dim vesper hour , Which recals in sweet dreams all we ever held dear ; Which awakens past sorrows , but softens their power , And embalms ev ' ry sigh , and illumines ' each tear . Oh I how dear in that hour are the lone lover's dreams , When the spirit of beauty moves brightly along ; When alone in the blue sky the light of love gleams , And the air is all fragrance , the breezes all song 1
But far sweeter than all are the visions that move From the eye of the mourner the shroud of the tomb , \ nd lay open , when , radiant in glory and love , The lost blossoms of earth in their own Eden bloom !
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HYMN . Father ! whose benignant ear Ever to the prayers attending Of the humble worshiper , Whether from Thy house ascending Or from nature ' s Bolitude—Every voice devoutly blending , We address Thee , wise and good ! At Thy holy altar betiding .
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368 Poetry . —Hymn . Lines IVritUn on an Evening of June .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1821, page 368, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2501/page/44/
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