From the cross the radiance streaming, Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure, By the cross are sanctified; Peace is there that knows no measure, Joys that through all time abide. BE KIND TO OLD AGE. BE ever kind to those who bend But bitter cares and weary years, Till naught remains, but age and tears, And darkening, dim decay. Life's sweetest hours have hastened past, Its bloom is faded now, And dusky twilight deepens fast, Along the furrowed brow, And soon the shattered remnants all, A narrow house receives; Like withered Autumn leaves. Oh, then be kind where'er thou art! Cheer thou the weary pilgrim on, And may the same for thee be done, The following were found among the papers of their late lamented author. THE GOOD MAN DIES. BY JONATHAN CHAPMAN. THE good man dies, And though time flies, His memory flieth not; His face, but yet His name is ne'er forgot. Or small or great Be the estate, That here to him was given, It matters not, For he has got Eternal wealth in heaven. Fame may attend, In lowliest vale, his head, But where he dies A flower will rise, And sweetest fragrance shed, ETERNAL GOD THY WAYS ARE JUST. BY JONATHAN CHAPMAN. ETERNAL God, thy ways are just, Let not frail children of the dust, What though across the noonday sky, And so the sorrows that pursue Justice and judgment are thy throne, WHAT MEANS THIS, MOTHER? BY JONATHAN CHAPMAN. WHAT means this, mother? O I feel Move them away, they chill me through, -- Mother, what hides thee from my view? Let me not go, thine only one, Press me, dear mother, to thy heart, Come, mother, come, dear father's there, Where art thou, mother? Let me hear |