1 Soon as my youthful lips can speak 2 From every sin that wounds the heart 3 When with life's heavy load opprest, 4 Oh! let me on the bed of death And pray with my expiring breath,— 61. Ballerma. Early Piety. 1 Br cool Siloam's shady rill, How sweet the lily grows! C. M. Heber. How sweet the breath beneath the hill 2 Lo! such the child whose early feet Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, 3 By cool Siloam's shady rill The rose that blooms beneath the hill 4 And soon, too soon, the wintry hour Will shake the soul with sorrow's power, 5 O Thou, whose infant feet were found Whose years, with changeless virtue crowned, 6 Dependant on thy bounteous breath, 62. In childhood, manhood, age and death, Early Piety. Stow. 1 WHEN little Samuel woke, How much did he rejoice! O blessed, happy child, to find H. M. The God of heaven so near and kind. 2 If God would speak to me, And say he was my friend, How happy should I be ! O, how would I attend! The smallest sin I then should fear, If God Almighty were so near. 1 3 And does he never speak? 0 EARLY PIETY. The God whom Samuel beard; The God of Samuel calls to me. 4 And I, beneath his care, May safely rest my head; 5 Like Samuel, let me say, 66 The voice that Samuel heard ;" 63. L. M. Cawood. 1 IN Israel's fane, by silent night, 2 A voice unknown the stillness broke; 3 Thus early called to serve his God, 4 Speak, Lord! and, from our earliest days, 64. Thy wakening voice hath reached our ear; Early Piety. Litchfield. 1 IN the soft season of thy youth, C. M. 2 Remember thy Creator, God! 3 He shall defend and guide thy course Till thou art landed on the shore 4 Then seek the Lord betimes, and choose 65. Ballerma. Early Piety. C. M. Watts. 1 HAPPY the child, whose early years Who hates the sinner's path, and fears 2 When we devote our youth to God, A flower when offered in the bud 66. THE WAYS OF WISDOM. 3 T is easier work if we begin While sinners, who grow old in sin, 4 'T will save us from a thousand snares Grace will preserve our following years, 5 To thee, Almighty God, to thee 'T will please us to look back, and see 66. 6 Let the sweet work of prayer and praise Thus we're prepared for longer days, The Ways of Wisdom. 1 How happy is the child, who hears And who celestial wisdom makes 2 For she has treasures greater far 3 She guides the young with innocence A crown of glory she bestows C. M. |