Who shall new nerve the trembling arm ? Who give the mind its strength, its all ? Dead to affection's nicer tie! The germ of noble action lost! And Hope's bland prospects-all forgot! Ah, who will give for pleasures vile, True, mercy stoops from Heaven to save, Though man be sunk almost to woe; But's soon almost may wake the grave, As him, whom vice has cast thus low. Fly then the syren's chanting voice! INGRATITUDE. GO rummage the intense of density, And see, if, than the ungrateful heart, Around it pours profuse of blessings, Kindness sheds its sweets for that to taste, And every passage of an instant shews, Yet never does it think on him who gives! Yet never does it praise for good it shares ! See the songster race 1 Pour forth a living flood of grateful praise, But man-he battens in the midst of good, And, like a senseless clod, Rolls him along nor has one thought of praise Mercy too-mercy that's infinite, (But leagu'd with Justice,) Calls on him from her high domain, And paints with seraph beam the way to glory, -While he just careless eyes— Then, on the plodding, dull, employs of sense, Oh! should some angel, just from Creation sprang, Shall man then murmur at a "God in arms," When the stern vengeance of unappeas'd justice Thunders its terrors !! Come nigh this instant and the mercy taste Is freely offer'd-but, if procrastration, Like a mildew, sieze thy wav'ring hopes, ---When judgment comes-be silent as the grave-- DESIRES AFTER HEAVEN. OH Saviour give my longing vision, Sight of extacies divine! Shew the gems of love's creation, Let their rays around me twine! Mercy beaming too with mildness, Innocence and virtue dear, Thought and reason void of wildness, Beauty like the diamond clear. Clear from all that's sense or mortal, Clear from bitterness and pain: -Happy founts of bliss and glory, Where who drink will drink again. Ha! I see them joyful gliding, Halleluiah is its burden- Halleluiah flows along- There mid fields of bliss you rove, A BOOK NEGLECTED. I'VE seen a book somewhere I know, Almost with looking-glass 'twould match : |