Yes, if the intensities of hope and fear
Attract us still, and passionate exercise
Of lofty thoughts, the way before us lies
Distinct with signs-through which, in fixed career,
As through a zodiac, moves the ritual year
Of England's Church-stupendous mysteries!
Which whoso travels in her bosom, eyes
As he approaches them, with solemn cheer.
Enough for us to cast a transient glance
The circle through.

Wordsworth.

CHRISTIAN YEAR:

THOUGHTS IN VERSE

For the Sundays and Holydays

THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

By John LED.

In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.

Isaiah xxx. 15.

Second American Edition.

By George Washington Loan

PHILADELPHIA:

LEA & BLANCHARD.

1880, May 1.
Gift of
Samil F. Green, M.D.
Of Boston.
CH. U. 1857.).

ENTERED according to the act of Congress, in the year 1834, by CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

T. K. & P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS,
No. 1 Lodge Alley

ΤΟ

MY NEXT FRIEND

AND MORE THAN BROTHER,

THE REV. WILLIAM CROSWELL,

RECTOR OF CHRIST CHURCH, BOSTON,

THESE PIOUS BREATHINGS

OF

A KINDRED SPIRIT

ARE MOST AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

G. W. D.

St. Mary's Parsonage,

Burlington, May 27, 1834.

The annual course of God's great mystery,

"The Word made flesh." On that with piercing eye The angels gaze. On that the Church invites

Her sons to linger. As thereon we muse,

On each strange scene, or all together wove,

A wondrous tissue like the braided hues

Which blessed the Patriarch's sight, with eye above Uplifted, faith the dear memorials views,

Signs of past mercy and enduring love.

Bishop Mant.