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kind . Looking into it at random , we might almost fancy that the author had never read poetry more modern than the age of the Restoration , unless a few pieces from the pen of Wordsworth and Walter , Scott might have chanced to meet his eye , so entirely We they free from the peculiarities of
later writers . It may well occasion a smile to see that King Charles the Martyr and the Restoration Days are held in such devout remembrance by good Churchmen , even now : yet in the pieces which commemorate them , there is not an acrimonious Word , and the volume is wholly free from " damnatory clauses' * against those who are without the pale or the church , either in matters of doctrine or of discipline . There is something striking , to our fancy , in the opening off the lines on Ascension Day :
e < Why stand ye gazing up into heaven ? " &c . Acts i . 11 . " Soft cloud , that while the breeze of May Chants her glad matins in the leafy arch , Draw ' st thy bright veil across the heavenly way , Meet pavement for an angel's glorious march :
My soul is envious of mine eye , That it should soar and glide with thee so fast , The while my groveling thoughts half buried lie , Or lawless roam around this earthly waste . Chains of my heart , avaunt , I say—I will arise , and in the strength of love Pursue the bright track ere it fade away , My Saviour ' s pathway to his home above , " &c . —P . 159 .
There is some difficulty in selecting , so as to give a fair idea of the author ' s merits . The following is perhaps as little liable to the charge of imitation or of mannerism as any—On St . James's Day . " Ye shall indeed drink of my cnp , and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with ; but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to g-ive ; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father . " St . Matthew xx . 23-" Sit down and takes thy fill of joy At God ' s right hand , a bidden guest ; Drink of the cup that cannot cloy , Eat of the bread that cannot waste .
O great Apostle ! rightl y now Thou readest all the Saviour meant , What time his grave yet gentle brow In sweet reproof on thee was bent . ' Seek yq to sit enthron'd by me ? Alas I ye know not what ye
ask—The first in shame and agony , The lowest in the meanest task—This can ye be ? And can ye drink This cup that I in tears must steep , Nor from the whelming waters shrink , That o ' er me roll so dark and deep ?'
' We can—thine are we , dearest Lord , In tf lory and in agony , To do ana suffer all thy word , Only be thou for ever nigh . '
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The Christian Year , 823
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 823, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/7/
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