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Meekness withChristian Victory hand in hand ; And Conscience too ; fdf whfefe her beauty , where Her power shall we beKdld , If riot in proof Daily against the strength and wiles of Evil ? For Man—what shapes of Evil can he fear , Wliile Guards and Conquerors like these are his ? Sickness ? lo ! Patience lends her potent aid !
The loss of friends ? With silent finger there Faith points to cloudless Heavens ! The sting of Death > Ono ! for Christian Victory attends . A band more glorious not in Dothan ' s mount , With fiery chariots , and with steeds of fire , The Prophet and his servant saw , rejoieed > And trusted in , and not in vain .
I ' ve known One , of her strongest earthly stay bereft , Disease and Death had entered at her door , And swept her dearest hopes away , and made The happy wife a mourning widow now . Her heavy load pf grief she had to bear In loneliness of heart . Some would have thought
Her soul cast down with trembling doubt and dread . But 'twas not so ! She fcnew this heavenly band Attending alt her way , supporting her In the dim Vale of tears ; still hov'ring o'er , And guiding still th' ascending steps which lead To that glad Eminence , bright with God's own beams , From whence is seen the Heavenly Canaan nigh . H . M .
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——¦^*^» - ~ j ON THE DEATH OF LIEUTENANT HOOD , ( See Franklin ' s Journey to the Polar Sea . ) He ' s gone ! the gallant and the gifted youth * And plies his glorious search no more below . His search was knowledge , well-earned fame , and truth : For these he crossed the trackless wastes of snow j For these he held communion with the deep , And traced the silent heavens , while all around was sleep .
He watchM the gleaming points of dubious light , ^ Which cheat the gazer with a treacherous dawn ; He markM the stars that wheel their circles bright , Through midnight skies , but vanish in the morn . Like these he faded from his opening day , Like those his brightness gleam'd , and darkness quench'd the ray .
When waters raged and down the billowy fall Deaih chased the bark , and sprang to seize his prey , He dared the pass , and utter ed first the call , To save the sinking comrades . On that day A Hero's fame he earn ed , and many a voice For Husband , Father saved , doth in that fame rejoice .
But on the verge of a more dread abyss , He stood in greater calmness ; knew the stream Of life was bearing him to gulfs than this More deep , more overwhelming-. We may deem A Christian Hero him , who view'd life ' s close With steady eye , and faith , the spirit ' s calm repose
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44 Poetry . —Qn the Death of Lieutenant Hoctd .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/44/
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