For JESUS reigns! the low, the meek, He reigns, to cheer the contrite heart: No more with supercilious eye, Avaunt the proud! avaunt the gay ! The meek, the humble, come! Avaunt ye great! who rule the world! MESSIAH'S banner is unfurl'd To call his people home. Who die with HIM, shall rise again : Death and the Grave, the Lamb hath slain, Low in his tomb they lie: Time! speed thy sand! and break thy glass! Vain shadows of existence! pass! WE LIVE NOT, TILL WE DIE. B. Hymn for Christmas-Day. AGAIN the Lord of life and light Awakes the kindling ray; Unseals the eyelids of the morn, This day be grateful homage paid, Ten thousand differing lips shall join Jesus, the friend of human kind, With strong compassion moved, In God his Father's name appear'd To save the men he loved. The powers of darkness leagued in vain He shook their kingdom, when he fell, Not long the toils of hell could keep And now his conquering chariot wheels Ascend the lofty skies; While broke, beneath his powerful cross, Death's iron sceptre lies. Exalted high at God's right hand, And still for erring, guilty man, And still his bleeding heart is touch'd To God our Saviour and our King, And stand prepared like Christ to die, Hymn for a Person in Sickness. O FATHER! glorify thy name So pray'd at woc's approach my Lord. Though life's unruffled days had flown, Why fear the path of grief to tread ; If thus my longing soul be led A safer, shorter way to Thee? On wings of faith, o'er fogs of earth, Clear'd from affliction's dark disguise. Yon clouds, a mass of sable shade By angels from above survey'd With universal sunshine glow. The Hour of Peace. A HYMN. WHEN groves by moonlight silence keep, And winds the vexed waves release, And fields are hush'd, and cities sleep : When infancy at evening tries By turns to climb each parent's knees, And gazing meets their raptured eyes : Lord! is not that the hour of peace? In golden pomp when autumn smiles; Lord! is not this the hour of peace? When mercy points where Jesus bleeds, This, Father, this alone is Peace. |