OH, TEACH ME TO LOVE THEE.

(AIR.-HAYDN.)

On, teach me to love Thee, to feel what thou art,
Till, fill'd with the one sacred image, my heart
Shall all other passions disown;

Like some pure temple, that shines apart,
Reserv'd for Thy worship alone.

In joy and in sorrow, through praise and through blame,

Thas still let me, living and dying the same,

In Thy service bloom and decay

Like some lone altar, whose votive flame

In holiness wasteth away.

Though born in this desert, and doom'd by my birth
To pain and affliction, to darkness and dearth,
On Thee let my spirit rely-

Like some rude dial, that, fix'd on earth,
Still looks for its light from the sky.

WEEP, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
(AIR. STEVENSON.)

WEEP, weep for him, the Man of God'—
In vonder vale he sunk to rest;
But none of earth can point the sod2
That flowers above his sacred breast.
Weep, children of Israel, weep!

His doctrine fell like Heaven's rain,3

His words refresh'd like Heaven's dew

Oh, ne'er shall Israel see again

A Chief, to GOD and her so true.
Weep, children of Israel, weep!

Remember ye his parting gaze,
His farewell song by Jordan's tide,
When, full of glory and of days,
He saw the promis'd land-and died.'
Weep, children of Israel, weep!

Yet died he not as men who sink,
Before our eyes, to soulless clay;
But, chang'd to spirit, like a wink
Of summer lightning, pass'd away.
Weep, children of Israel, weep!

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Mab."-Deut. xxxiv. 8.

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab; . . . . but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."-Ibid. ver. 6. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew."Moacs' Song, Deut. xxxii. 2.

"I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt

"Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee."--Isaiah, \x.

2" And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising."-Ib.

3 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see; all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side."-Ib.

4" The multitude of camels shall cover thee; the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and incense."-Ib.

3" Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?"-Ib.

"Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them."-Ib.

7" The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the fir-tree, the

pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my san tuary and I will make the place of my feet glorious."-Isaiah, Is. 8 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy wails, Salvation, and thy gates, Praise."-Ib.

9 Thy sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Loar shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory."-ID. 10 Thy sun shall no more go down; . . . . for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended."-Ib.

"And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olivebranches," &c. &c.-Neh. viii. 15.

2" For since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so: and there was very great gladness."-Neh. viii. 17.

3 Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon."-Josh. x. 12.

4" Fetch olive-branches,and pine-branches, and myrtle-branches,

IS IT NOT SWEET TO THINK, HEREAFTER.

(AIR. HAYDN.)

Is it not sweet to think, hereafter,
When the Spirit leaves this sphere,
Love, with deathless wing, shall waft her
To those she long hath mourn'd for here?

Hearts, from which 'twas death to sever
Eyes, this world can ne'er restore,
There, as warm, as bright as ever,
Shall meet us and be lost no more.

When wearily we wander, asking

Of earth and heav'n, where are they, Beneath whose smile we once lay basking, Blest, and thinking bliss would stay?

Hope still lifts her radiant finger

Pointing to th' eternal Home, Upon whose portal yet they linger, Looking back for us to come.

Alas, alas!-doth Hope deceive us?
Shall friendship-love-shall all those ties
That bind a moment, and then leave us,
Be found again where nothing dies?

Oh, if no other boon were given,

To keep our hearts from wrong and stain, Who would not try to win a Heaven Where all we love shall live again?

WAR AGAINST BABYLON. (AIR. NOVELLO.)

"WAR against Babylon!" shout we around." Be our banners through earth unfurl'd; Rise up, ye nations, ye kings, at the sound'"War against Babylon!" shout through th world!

and palm-branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths."Neh. viii. 15.

5" And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Los stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all th Israelites passed over on dry ground."-Josh. iii. 17.

6"Shout against her round about."-Jer. 1. 15.

7" Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet amoni the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together again her the kingdoms," &c. &c.-Jer. li. 27.