POETRY FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. PART I. AN ANTHEM. LET all the world in every corner sing, The heavens are not too high, His praise may thither fly: The earth is not too low, His praises there may grow. Let all the world in every corner sing, My God and King! The earth with psalms must shout, No door can keep them out: But above all, the heart Must bear the longest part. Let all the world in every corner sing, My God and King! HERBERT. COUPLETS. Who read a chapter when they rise, Who shuts his hand, hath lost his gold: Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Who by aspersions throw a stone Who looks on ground with humble eyes, HERBERT. Despise not little sins-the gallant ship may sink, Though only drop by drop the watery tide it drink. Sin not till left, will duly sinful seem; A man must waken first ere he can tell his dream. Would'st thou do harm, and yet unharm'd thyself abide? None ever struck another, save through his own side. When thou hast thank'd thy God for every blessing sent, What time will then remain for murmurs or lament? Thou canst not choose but serve- man's lot is servitude, But thou hast this much choice, a bad lord or a good. Sin, like a serpent, where its head an entrance finds, Easily its whole length of body after winds. |