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[Saturday.

THE SHEPHERD'S SONG (concluded).

My little lambs, like you,

I have a shepherd too,
Who keeps me in his fold;

Whose love can ne'er be told;
Who guides me by his crook and rod;
My shepherd is-my Saviour God.

The Lord my pasture does prepare,
And feeds me with a shepherd's care;
His presence does my wants supply;
He guards me with a watchful eye;
My noon-day walks he does attend,
And all my midnight hours defend.
His bounty does my pains beguile,
And makes the barren wilderness to smile,
His friendly crook will ever give me aid,
And guide me thro' the darkest shade,

No. 364.]

THE HOUR OF DEATH.

"OH, most delightful hour by man
Experienced here below,

The hour which terminates his span,
His folly and his woe!

[Sunday.

Worlds should not bribe me back to tread
Again life's dreary waste,
To see again my day o'erspread
With all the gloomy past.

My home henceforth is in the skies—
Earth, seas, and sun adieu!
All heaven unfolded to my eyes,
I have no sight for you."

So spoke Aspasio, firm possess'd
Of faith's supporting rod,
Then breath'd his soul into its rest,

The bosom of his God.

He was a man among the few
Sincere on virtue's side;

And all his strength from Scripture drew,
To hourly use apply'd.

Such liv'd Aspasio; and at last,

Call'd up from earth to heav'n,
The gulf of death triumphant pass'd,
By gales of blessings driv'n.

His joys be mine, each reader cries,
When my last hour arrives!

They shall be your's, my verse replies,
Such only be your lives.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

WHAT then is a Happy New Year?

Is it honour, or talents,- or health?
No! the poorest its bright beams may cheer,
Which oft leave the gay mansions of wealth.

'Tis not pleasure, nor high sounding fame,
That will make us a Happy New Year.
How many are blest—but in name,
And in secret they shed the full tear!

'Tis this makes a Happy New Year,-
"To do good, and from evil to cease,
To love God, and to live in his fear,

To seek and pursue heav'nly peace!"

Then a Happy New Year we shall find,
In TRUTH, and OBEDIENCE, and LOVE;

O Saviour, but grant us thy mind,
And prepare us for pleasures above

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Child of Affluence. The, 76.
Child of Poverty. The, 77.
Child. The happy, 12.
Children. Address to, 1.
Children. Appeal from poor,

85.

Choice. The wise, 111.

Christ,

The character of,

174.

The condescension

Christ.

of, 178.

Christ. Example of, 14.
Christ our life, 36.

Christ, Why, died and rose

again, 36.

Christmas-Eve, 233.

Christmas-Day, 234.

Christmas-Day. Questions
for, 235.

Christian. The, 24.
Clock. Lines for a, 39.
Comfort. The Source of, 170.
Company, 62.

Complaint. The Child's, 221

Confidence, 75.

Consolation, 138.

Constancy, 62.

Content. The Christian's,
133.
Contentment, 11, 65.
Contrast. The, 191.
Creation. The, 8, 124.
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