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* Then be it so- ** -my cup i $ eemvQ And of my woes baptismal taster But for the crown , that . an g * l » weave For those next me in glory plac'd ^
I give it not by partial love , But in my Father ' s book are writ What names on earth shall lowliest prove ,. * f hat they in- heaven may highest sit . ' Take up the lesson , O my heart ! Thou Lord of meekness ^ write it there ; Thine own meek ' self to me impart , Thy lofty hope , thy lowly prayer . If ever on the mount . with , thee
I seem to soar in vision bng-Jit , With thoughts of coming agony Stay thou the too presumptuous flight ; Gently along the vale of tears Lead me from Tabor ' s sunbrig-ht steep , Let me not grudge a few short years With thee tow ' rd Heaven to walk and weep . Too happy , on my silent path , If now and then allowed , with thee Watching some placid , holy death , Thy secret work of love to see . But oh F most happy ,, should thy call , Thy welcome call , at last be givenc Come where thou long hast stored thy all , * Come , see thy place prepar ed in Heaven / "
The lines on the twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity are too long for insertion—we can only give the opening stanzas . " The heart alone knoweth his own bitterness , and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy / ' Proverbs xiv . 10 . ss y should we faint and fear to live alone , Since all alone , so Heaven has will'd , we die ? Nor even the tenderest heart , and next our own , Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh ? Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell , and range apart ,
Our eyes see all around in gloom or glow—Hues of their own , fresh borrow ed from the heart . And well it is for us our God should feel Alone our secret throbbings : so our prayer May readier spring" to Heaven , nor spend its zeal On cloud-born idols of this lower air . For if our heart in perfect sympathy Beat with another , answering love for love ,
Weak mortals , all entrane'd , on earth would lie , Nor listen for those purer strains above , " &c , &c . —P . 2 G 1 . There is something in the following piece which makes it one of our favourites : " And after these things , he went forth and saw a publican named Levi , sitting at the receipt of custom , and lie said unto him , ' Follow me / aiul he left all , rose up , and followed him / ' St . Luke v . 27 , 28 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 824, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/8/
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