"-Most blissful glories round her hung, "And-" my Redeemer"-swell'd aloud. "Your GOD was there-I dar'd not view, "But bow'd with reverend awe profound "That he was glorious good I knew "From the sweet melody of sound. "It bore along such words as these"My Father" " Holy” "Glorious" "Good" "Thy mercy justice has appeas'd—” "Thou art the only glorious GOD!" "Then swept the harps that cherubs bore, "And Halleluiahs fill'd the vault 66 Glory-Glory ever more "To him our only glorious GoD." "Throughout the lengthening arches shone, "Millions of hosts in order due, "One name their voices prais'd alone, "As thro' the vast they joyful flew. "Your mother then again I saw, "She knew me, and, with smile so sweet " "Twas such as all around me wore "She said-" Go tell him here we meet." THE BIBLE SOCIETY. HAIL noble aim! Hail most exalted deed! Cæsar was great-or so the world has said: And Alexander as a conqu'ror shone. But what were they? mere mad men! Caterers For death, and aids of misery! Their aim, Vile self aggrandizement; and all the power Their might could boast, turn'd only to th' shedding Brighter gems o'er their own locks. Th' world might weep, They car'd not--so long as some wild multitude, Raving like tree tops in a noxious storm, Threw up their caps, and cried out, " Ye are great.” Such are th' great men we so often gaze at, Ycleped Heroes-Demigods-or Suns→ But death has cool'd them: Cæsar's arm is still As is his slave's; "his pride is in the dust :" And-tho' "a god"-poor Alexander's rotten! Much good their talents might, with ease, have done Is a school boy's plaything. It does to dazzle, Whence else our fears might drive us : To tickle Itching ears to gild some mass of foul Corruption, wickedness or misery "Twill make the weak man stare, but heals no wounds Of conscience-plain duty is its better. Cæsar ruled o'er armies, but the man Who rules himself is greater. Alexander wept, more worlds to conquer Had he look'd to his own heart he there Had found employ. But, greater, nobler, far Than Cæsar, or e'en Ammon's Son, the world Has seen. Friends to mankind. Those who, themselves Have left without the scale, as hardly worth Observing, and strove, ay, toil'd, that they might Aid their fellows. We've seen them, like th' bay tree, Stand alone such was our Washington, and : Such was Howard, and such were many more I fail to name; than Cæsar greater as Than stars the Sun. And we have seen them, like The lofty forest, on Lebanon's rich mount, Together blend their various powers for good. Such are the social bands have treasur'd knowledge The arts and foster'd science high and such Oh Africk, shed the balm of peace, that raise Their might against the hydra Hell hath sent On earth, by man call'd slav'ry-slavery Such single and such social blessings earth More exalted, aim, remains unnotic'd. Those have the second law with zeal obey'd: Those have their neighbor lov'd, but this its GoD. Ye friends to Jesus, who, from azure skies, Came down, and bled, a ruin'd world to save : Ye friends to him, who, from the honor'd mountain, Sinai, thunder'd-or rather, ye, Who favor'd are with such peculiar love, God's word to spread-accept my youthful lay. Ere the first ages of revolving time, GOD saw the lapse would follow man's formation He saw the need, then would arise, of help : He saw, and pitied. His creative mind Determin'd, in the fullness of his love, |