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Come and possess me whole,

Nor hence again remove;

Settle and fix my wavering soul,
With all thy weight of love.

My one desire be this,

Thy only love to know,

To seek, and taste no other bliss,
No other good below.

My life, my portion, thou,

Thou all-sufficient art;

My hope, my heav'nly treasure, now Enter, and keep my heart.

Rather than let it burn

For earth, O quench its heat; And when it would to earth return, O let it cease to beat.

Snatch me from ill to come,

When I from thee would fly;
O take my wand'ring spirit home,
And grant me then to die.

SINKING underneath my load,
Darkly feeling after thee;
Let me ask," my God, my God,
Why hast thou forsaken me?"
Why, O why, am I forgot?
Lord, I seek, but find thee not.

Still I ask, nor yet receive,

Knock at the unopen'd door;

Still I struggle to believe,

Hope, tho' urg'd to hope no more.

Bearing, what I cannot bear,
Yielding, fighting, with despair.

Hear in mercy my complaint,
Hear, and hasten to my aid;
Help, or utterly I faint;

Fails the spirit thou hast made :
Still, I at thy footstool keep,
Pray and hope, despair and weep.

Struggling in temptation's snare,
Lo! I ever look to thee;
Tempted more than I can bear?
No, my soul, it cannot be :
True and faithful is his word,
And thy sure support, the Lord.

Come then, O my Saviour, come,
God of truth, no longer stay,
God of love, dispel the gloom,
Point me out the promis'd way:
Let me from the trial fly,
Sink into thine arms, and die.

Waft me to that happy shore,

Port of ease, and end of care; All my storms shall there be o'er, Grief shall never reach me there; Surely of my God possest,

Safe in my Redeemer's breast..

RISE, my soul, the dawn appears,
Of that eternal day;
Quit, in hope, the vale of tears,

And mount, and soar away:

Darting thro' this lower sphere,
Quick as a seraphic flame:
Rise the marriage feast to share,
Of Moses and the Lamb.

In the wedding garb of love,
By heav'nly pity drest;

I shall soon sit down above,
At the celestial feast :

To my elder brother join'd,

I shall there my partner see;
In the arms of Jesus find

The soul that twin'd with me.

There we shall with transport meet,
And see our Saviour's face

Moses, Jesus' song repeat,
In ecstacy of praise.

Bright as his, our bodies are,

Like the head, the members shine;

All our open foreheads bear,

The glorious stamp divine.

With the high, and lofty One,
We dwell in bliss supreme;
Share the pleasures of his throne,
And taste the chrystal stream;

Banquet on angelic food,

Father, Son, and Spirit know; Drink the joys that flow from God, And shall for ever flow.

A FRAGMENT.

Mixt with the guardian angels bend
The heirs of glorious grace;
And still, like them, to heaven ascend,
And still behold thy face.

Happy, might I the grace receive,
Which thy true widows share ;
With God in close communion live
A life of faith and prayer.

In thee my only friend confide,
Delightfully alone;

And desolate with thee abide,
"Till all my course be run.

Surely, I now rely on thee,
Within thine arms I am;
And trust, the glorious face to see,
Of my triumphant Lamb.

I know the prayer of faith is heard,
I feel the answer given;
And haste, by holiness prepar'd,
To meet my Lord in heaven.

LETTER

ΤΟ

MRS. GRANDIDIER.

MY DEAR MRS. G

St. John's, Antigua, 1775.

THE long and steady friendship which has subsisted between us, in sickness and in health, in prosperity and adversity, ever the same without change or diminution, leaves me no room to doubt, that it will extend to my little family, and that you will be as ready, to the utmost of your power, to befriend them, as you have been the dear father already gone, and your friend, who is, perhaps, about to follow.

If it should please God to take me away in my approaching confinement, I leave you and Capt. G. full power to do with and dispose of every thing in this house, and belonging to me in this Island, as you shall think most for the advantage of my little family. You know my extreme tenderness for their dear father made me unable to part with any of his clothes, but these can be of no consequence to me when I shall again have joined him for whose sake I kept them; you may therefore dispose of them, and also of my own, if you think what they will fetch will be of more service to the children. But I do not choose to leave any particular directions about my trifling effects; you will consult with other friends; and I know, I am

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