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Our hearts the mournful tribute pay,
Which pity must dernand.

2 While friendship prompts the rising sigh,
O may this truth impress'd
With awful power-I too must die,
Sink deep in every breast.

3 Let this vain world engage no more:
Behold the open tomb!

It bids us seize the present hour;
To-morrow death may come.

4 The voice of this alarming scene
May every heart obey;

Nor be the heavenly warning vain,
Which calls to watch and pray.

LONG.

180.

TAYLOR.

Upon a good child's leaving school.

WE offer, Lord, an humble prayer,

And thank thee for thy grace bestow'd, In leading one beneath our care Thus far in wisdom's pleasant road. 2 What trials to his lot may fall, What toilsome duties to fulfil, We do not know, but in them all

Be thou his strength and comfort still. 3 Still night and morning may he pray, Where'er his dwelling may be found;

Still love thy word, and keep thy day, Though gay young sinners scoff around. 4 In sore temptation, pain, or grief, Whate'er his lot of wo may be, Teach him to seek and find relief In every time of need from thee. 5 May Jesus be his constant friend; The Bible his support and stay; And may thy Spirit, Lord, descend To bless and guide him day by day. 6 We need not supplicate for more; For if he find a friend in thee, 'Then bless'd in basket and in store, In soul and body, shall he be.

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ASSEMBLED in our school once more,
O Lord, thy blessing we implore;
We meet to read, and sing, and pray,
Be with us then through this thy day.
2 Our fervent prayer to thee ascends
For parents, teachers, foes, and friends;
And when we in thy house appear,
Help us to worship in thy fear.

3 When we on earth shall meet no more, May we above to glory soar;

And praise thee in more lofty strains,
Where one eternal sabbath reigns.

LONG.

182.

Close of school.

EDMESTON.

ETERNAL Father, God of grace!
Who dwellest in this holy place,
Hear us, O hear us, while we pray,
And send us not unblest away!

2 Look on us now, and bless us here:
We fain would worship in thy fear;
O be thy shadow round us spread,
O be thy Spirit on us shed.

3 Not many years our feet have run,
Yet hast thou watch'd them every one;
May all our future years be bright
With beams of heavenly love and light.
4 In life, and when we come to die,
Be thou our guardian ever nigh;
And may the pang that sets us free
Waft every spit home to thee!

COMMON.

183.

The same subject.

EDMESTON

AND now another hour is past

Of kind instruction given;

And this, perhaps, may be the last,
On this side hell or heaven.

2 And is it so? How dread the thought! And yet, indeed, how true! If I could feel it as I ought

This day, what should I do?

3 O! surely prize it more and more,
And pray that God would give
A death of gain, when life is o'er,
His blessing while I live.

SEVENS.

FOR

184.

The same subject.

a season call'd to part,

Let us now ourselves commend
To the gracious eye and heart
Of our ever-present Friend.

2 Jesus, hear our humble prayer;
Tender Shepherd of thy sheep,
Let thy mercy, and thy care,

All our souls in safety keep.

3 What we each have now been taught,
Let our memories retain ;
May we, if we live, be brought
Here to meet in peace again.

4 Then, if thou instruction bless,
Songs of praises shall be given;
We'll our thankfulness express,
Here on earth and when in heaven.

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ONCE more, before we part,

HART.

We'll bless the Saviour's name,
Record his mercies, every heart;
Sing, every tongue, the same.
2 May we receive his word,
And feed thereon and grow;
Go on to seek, to know the Lord,
And practise what we know.

TIMES AND SEASONS.

COMMON.

186.

WATTS

Morning.

MY God, who makes the sun to know His proper hour to rise,

And, to give light to all below,

Doth send him round the skies.

2 When from the chambers of the east His morning race begins;

He never tires, nor stops to rest,
But round the world he shines;

3 So, like the sun, would I fulfil
The business of the day;
Begin my work betimes, and still
March on my heavenly way.

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