Then sunk the star of Solyma

Then pass'd her glory's day, Like heath that, in the wilderness, The wild wind whirls away. Silent and waste her bowers, Where once the mighty trod, And sunk those guilty towers, While Baal reign'd as God.

"Go" said the LORD-"Ye Conquerors! "Steep in her blood your swords, "And raze to earth her battlements, "For they are not the LORD'S. "Till Zion's mournful daughter "O'er kindred bones shall tread, "And Hinnom's vale of slaughter "Shall hide but half her dead!"

WHO IS THE MAID? ST. JEROME'S LOVE."

(AIR. BEETHOVEN.)

Who is the Maid my spirit seeks,
Through cold reproof and slander's blight?
Has she Love's roses on her cheeks?

Is hers an eye of this world's light?
No-wan and sunk with midnight prayer
Are the pale looks of her I love;
Or if, at times, a light be there,
Its beam is kindled from above.

I chose not her, my heart's elect,

From those who seek their Maker's shrine In gems and garlands proudly deck'd,

As if themselves were things divine. No-Heaven but faintly warms the breast That beats beneath a broider'd veil;

"I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies."--Jeremiah, xii. 7. 2" Do not disgrace the throne of thy glory."-Jer. xiv. 21. 3" The LORD called thy name a green olive-tree; fair, and of goodly fruit," &c.-Jer. xi. 16.

4" For he shall be like the heath in the desert."-Jer. xvii. 6. 5" Take away her battlements; for they are not the LonD's."Jer. v. 10.

6 "Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the Valley of the Son of Hinnom,

And she who comes in glitt'ring vest
To mourn her frailty, still is frail.
Not so the faded form I prize
And love, because its bloom is gone;
The glory in those sainted eyes

Is all the grace her brow puts on.
And ne'er was Beauty's dawn so bright,

So touching as that form's decay, Which, like the altar's trembling light, In holy lustre wastes away.

THIS WORLD IS ALL A FLEETING SHOW.

(AIR. STEVENSON.)

THIS world is all a fleeting show,

For man's illusion given; The smiles of Joy, the tears of Woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow

There's nothing true, but Heaven!

And false the light on Glory's plume,
As fading hues of Even;

And Love and Hope, and Beauty's bloom,
Are blossoms gather'd for the tomb-

There's nothing bright, but Heaven! Poor wand'rers of a stormy day!

From wave to wave we're driven, And Fancy's flash, and Reason's ray, Serve but to light the troubled way There's nothing calm, but Heaven!

OH, THOU! WHO DRY'ST THE MOURNER'S TEAR.

(AIR.-HAYDN.)

"He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wound - Psalm cxlvii. 3.

OH, Thou! who dry'st the mourner's tear,
How dark this world would be,

If, when deceiv'd and wounded here,
We could not fly to Thee!

but the Valley of Slaughter; for they shall bury in Tophet there be no place." -Jer, vii. 32.

7 These lines were suggested by a passage in one of St. Jerom Letters, replying to some calumnious remarks that had been cir lated respecting his intimacy with the matron Paula :-"Num me vestes serica, nitentes gemmæ, picta facies, aut auri rap ambitio? Nulla fuit alia Romæ matronarum, quæ meain poi edomare mentem, nisi lugens atque jejunans, fletu pene cæcata. Epist. "Si tibi putem."

8 Ου γαρ κρυσοφορείν την διακονούσαν δει. - Chrysost. Homil. & Epist. ad Tim.

GO, LET ME WEEP.
(AIR. STEVENSON.)

Go, let me weep-there's bliss in tears,
When he who sheds them inly feels
Some ling'ring stain of early years
Effac'd by every drop that steals.
The fruitless showers of worldly woe
Fall dark to earth and never rise;
While tears that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.
Go, let me weep.

Leave me to sigh o'er hours that flew
More idly than the summer's wind,
And, while they pass'd, a fragrance threw,
But left no trace of sweets behind. -

1 I have so much altered the character of this air, which is from the beginning of one of Avison's old-fashioned concertos, that, without this acknowledgment, it could hardly, I think, be recognised.

2" And it came to pass, that, in the morning watch, the Lond looked unto the host of the Egyptians, through the pillar of fire

WERE NOT THE SINFUL MARY'S TEARS (AIR. STEVENSON.)

WERE not the sinful Mary's tears
An offering worthy Heaven,
When, o'er the faults of former years,
She wept-and was forgiven?

And the sunk heart, that inly bled—
Heaven's noblest sacrifice?

Thou, that hast slept in error's sleep,
Oh, wouldst thou wake in Heaven,
Like Mary kneel, like Mary weep,
"Love much 1" and be forgiven!

Thy days of splendour shall return,
And all be new again.

The Fount of Life shall then be quaff'd
In peace, by all who come;"
And every wind that blows shall waft
Some long-lost exile home.

AS DOWN IN THE SUNLESS RETREATS. (AIR. HAYDN.)

As down in the sunless retreats of the Ocean,
Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can sec,
Se deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion,
Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee,
My GOD! silent, to Thee—
Pure, warm, silent, to Thee.

As still to the star of its worship, though clouded,
The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea,
So dark as I roam, in this wintry world shrouded,
The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee,
My God! trembling, to Thee-
True, fond, trembling, to Thee.

Then, Judah, thou no more shalt mourn
Beneath the heathen's chain;

"Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much." -Inke, vil 47.

And he will destroy, in this mountain, the face of the covering ver all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations."Irish, XIV. 7.

The rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the

And Goo shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;.... her shall there be any more pain."-Rer. xxi. 4.

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all

"Rev. xxi. 5.

**And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."—

The Scriptures having declared that the Temple of Jerusalem Ta type of the Messiah, it is natural to conclude that the Palms, made so conspicuous a figure in that structure, represented that Life and Immortality which were brought to light by the -Observations on the Palm, as a Sacred Emblem, by

ALMIGHTY GOD!

CHORUS OF PRIESTS.

(AIR.-MOZART.)

ALMIGHTY GOD! when round thy shrine
The Palm-tree's heavenly branch we twine,
(Emblem of Life's eternal ray,

And Love that "fadeth not away,")
We bless the flowers, expanded all,
We bless the leaves that never fall,
And trembling say,-"In Eden thus
"The Tree of Life may flower for us!"

When round thy Cherubs-smiling calm,
Without their flames"-
- we wreathe the Palm.
Oh God! we feel the emblem truc-
Thy Mercy is eternal too.

Those Cherubs, with their smiling eyes,
That crown of Palm which never dies,
Are but the types of Thee above-
Eternal Life, and Peace, and Love!

OH FAIR! OH PUREST! SAINT AUGUSTINE TO HIS SISTER.10

(AIR.-MOORE.)

OH fair! oh purest! be thou the dove That flies alone to some sunny grove, And lives unseen, and bathes her wing, All vestal white, in the limpid spring.

8" And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims, and palm-trees, and open flowers.". 1 Kings, vi. 29.

9" When the passover of the tabernacles was revealed to the great lawgiver in the mount, then the cherubic images which appeared in that structure were no longer surrounded by flames; for the tabernacle was a type of the dispensation of mercy, by which JEHOVAH Confirmed his gracious covenant to redeem mankind." — Observations on the Palm.

10 In St. Augustine's Treatise upon the advantages of a solitary life, addressed to his sister, there is the following fanciful passage, from which, the reader will perceive, the thought of this song was taken: "Te, soror, nunquam nolo esse securam, sed timere semperque tuam fragilitatem habere suspectam, ad instar pavida columba frequentare rivos aquarum et quasi in speculo accipitris cernere supervolantis effigiem et cavere. Rivi aquarum sententiæ sunt scripturarum, quæ de limpidissimo sapientia fonte profluentes," &c. &c.-De Vit. Eremit. ad Sororem.

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ANGEL OF CHARITY.
(AIR.-HANDEL.)

ANGEL of Charity, who, from above,
Comest to dwell a pilgrim here,
Thy voice is music, thy smile is love,

And Pity's soul is in thy tear.
When on the shrine of GOD were laid
First-fruits of all most good and fair,
That ever bloom'd in Eden's shade,

Thine was the holiest offering there. Hope and her sister, Faith, were given But as our guides to yonder sky; Soon as they reach the verge of heaven, There, lost in perfect bliss, they die.' But, long as Love, Almighty Love,

Shall on His throne of thrones abide, Thou, Charity, shall dwell above, Smiling for ever by His side!

BEHOLD THE SUN.

(AIR.-LORD MORNINGTON.

BEHOLD the Sun, how bright

From yonder East he springs, As if the soul of life and light

Were breathing from his wings.

"Then Faith shall fail, and holy Hope shall die, One lost in certainty, and one in joy."-Prior.

2" And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, . . . . that there should be time no longer."— Rev. x. 5, 6.

3" Awake, ye Dead, and come to judgment."

4" They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven - and all the angels with him."-Matt. xxiv. 30. and xxv. 31.

LORD, WHO SHALL BEAR THAT DAY. (AIR. DR. BOYCE.)

LORD, who shall bear that day, so dread, so splendid,

When we shall see thy Angel, hov'ring o'er This sinful world, with hand to heav'n extended, And hear him swear by Thee that Time's no more?*

When Earth shall feel thy fast consuming rayWho, Mighty GOD, oh who shall bear that day?

When through the world thy awful call hath sounded

"Wake, all ye Dead, to judgment wake, ye

5" From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away."Rev. xx. 11.

6" And before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another.....

"Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand. Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you, & "Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, &c.

"And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal."-Matt. xxv. 32. et seq.