With a | turf on my breast, and a stone at

my head,

Ere an- nother such

grove | shall a- | rise in its |

stead.

1991

|

if any thing | can

|

'Tis a sight to en- | gage me

To muse on the | perishing | nature of man; 91991

Though his life | be a | dream, his en- | joy

ments,

Have a being | less

see,

durable even | | ▼ ។ | | ។ than he.

THE ROSE.

Cowper.

The rose had been | wash'd, just wash'd in

And weigh'd down its | beautiful | head

The cup was all fill'd

all wet,

it had | left with re- |

And it seem'd to a | fanciful | view |

To weep for the buds

On the flourishing | bushwhere it | grew. 111111

|

I | hastily | seized it un- | fit as it was
|
For a nosegay, so I dripping and drown'd|11
And swinging it | rudely, | too | rudely a- | las !
I snapp'd it it fell

And such

part, 77

to the | ground.

។

ex- | claim'd is the | pitiless |

Some act by the | delicate | mind; |

Regardless of wringing and | breaking a |

heart |

Al- ready to sorrow re- | sign'd. 91991

This elegant | Rose, | Might have | bloom'd with its

had I | shaken it | less, |

owner a | while; |

And the | tear that is | wiped

dress,

with a | little ad- |

May be ❘ follow'd | per- | haps by a smile. 441441

PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON.

Luke xv.

And Jesus said, |A| certain | man

two sons:
to his father,
of goods

And the younger of them | said 1| Father, | give me the I portion that | falleth to me. || And he di- |

vided unto them his | living.
And not many | days | after,
songathered | all together,
journey into a far | country,
his substance | with riotous

the younger |

and took his | and there wasted living. |11|11|7

And when he had a | mighty | famine

in

he began to be in | want.

spent all, there a- | rose that | land: || And ។ |19|19|4 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country: and he sent him | into his fields to | feed | swine. |11|11| And he would | fain have | filled himself

that the swine did | eat:

with the husks

gave unto him.11|17|1 And when he came

to himself, he said,

vants of my father's | have | bread e-nough

How many | hired | ser

and to |

I will

and will say unto

and I perish with | hunger!

and go to my | father,

Father, I have sinned against | heaven, |

spare,

a- | rise

him,

and before thee,

be called thy | son:

and came to his father.

and am | no more | worthy to

make me as one of thy |

hired servants. 1 1999 And | he a- | rose,

But when he was his father saw him |

and fell on his | neck, and kissed

andran,

him. 1997

And the son | said unto him, |

Father, I have sinned against | heaven,

and in thy sight, | and am | no

dead, lost,

and is a- | live a- | gain; he was |11| | and is found. || And they be- | gan to | be merry. 17/111

Now his elder | son was in the | field: | ¦ And as he came and | drew nigh to the | house, he heard music and dancing. 11 |។ And he called | one of the | servants | and | asked | what these things | meant. 17 17 And | | ។ ។ |

he said unto him,

and thy father

Thy | brother is come; 11

hath | killed the | fatted | calf,

because he hath re- |ceived him | safe and | sound. And he was | angry, | and | would not go | in: || therefore | came his | father out, and in- | treated him. [79991 1771 And he answering | said to his father, | Lo these many years do |I| serve thee, |91 neither trans-gressed I at | any | time

mandment

thy com- | and yet thou | never gavest | that I might | make | merry with my | But as soon as this thy | son |

which hath de- | voured thy | living

me a kid, friends:

was come,

with | harlots, | thou hast | killed for | him

live again; and was lost, and is | found. |

941991

was dead

and is a

O Lord, known me.

PSALM CXXXIX.

and |

thou hast searched me, |
|11|1Thou | knowest my down |

sitting and mine | uprising, thou | under- |
standest my thoughts | a- | far | off. 111111191
Thou compassest my path, and my | lying |
and art ac- quainted with all my | ways.
| | |
For there is not a word in my tongue,

down,

but lo,

gether.

Lord | thou knowest it | alto- |

| Thou hast be- | set me | be- | hind and before, and | laid thine hand up- | on me. 1977 | Such | knowledge is | too | wonderful for me: it is high, I cannot at| tain unto it. 1111 Whither shall I go 19 | | from thy spirit? | or | whither shall I | flee from thy presence? If I as- | cend || up into | heaven, || thou art | there: || if I | make my bed in | hell | be- | hold, | thou art | there. IfI take the wings of the morn| ing | and dwell in the uttermost | parts of the | sea: 1|1 1| Even | there | shall thy | hand | and thy | right hand shall | hold me.

lead me,

| even the

Ibout me: || Yea,

a

from thee; day:

If I say, | Surely the | darkness shall | night shall be | light the darkness | hideth not but the night | shineth as the | the | darkness | and the | light 19 to thee 911

are | both a- | like