Been drawn to thee, and I found thy | presence

life: 111

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But here I seek in | vain and rarely [

find

Thy ancient | promise

to the few that wait|

In singleness up- on thee, || reach to us.

By minds drawn | thither- | ward, and |

My- self and sorrows from the | motly | crowd |

Of human obser

Thou

vation. But | Oh |

Whose bowels of com- | passion | never | fail| Towards the creatures | fashioned by thy | hand1 Re-animate the dead and give to those

Who never felt thy | presence | in their souls |

Nor saw thy | beauty, | both to | see and feel | That thou art | lovely, and thy | presence | life: 171

Re-store the | wanderer, and support the|

weak

With thy sustaining | arm, for | strength is |

thine.

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And Oh! pre- | serve this | tempest beaten | bark| Fron sinking in the wave, whose swelling | surge

Threatens to over-whelm, For- | sake her |

not

But be her | Pilot, || though | no | sun nor |

star

Ap-pear a- | mid the | gloom; | for if a | ray |
From thy all cheering presence,

her course |

light

She rides the storm se- | cure, and in | due | time

Will reach her destined port, and | be | | | at peace.

THE DOG AND WATER LILY.

Cowper.

The moon was | shady | and | soft | airs
Swept | Ouse's silent | tide, |

When

'scaped from | literary cares,

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My spaniel,
And high

(Two | nymphs |

prettiest of his race,
in | pedigree, |

a- | dorned with every | grace |

That spaniel | found for | me,)||

and reeds!

Now | wanton'd | lost in | flags
Now starting into sight, |
Pursued the | swallow o'er the meads1
With scarce a slower | flight. |11|11|

It was the time when | Ouse dis- | play'd |
His lilies newly | blown; 11

Their beauties | I in- | tent

survey'd

And one I wish'd my own. | 111111

With cane ex- | tended | far

To steer it close to | land;|

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I sought 11

But still the prize | though nearly | caught, | | Escaped my | eager | hand. 1971 |

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Beau mark'd my unsuccessful pains |
With fix'd con- | siderate | face, |

And puzzling sat his puppy | brains

To compre- | hend the | case.

But with a chirup | clear and

Dispersing all his

strong,

dream, |

I thence with- | drew and follow'd long1|
The windings of the stream. 111111

My ramble | finish'd | I re- | turn'd, ||
Beau (trotting | far be- | fore) |

The floating | wreath | a- | gain dis- | cern'd |
And plunging | left the shore. |17|19|

I saw him with that | lily | cropped
Im- | patient | swim to meet

My quick ap- proach | and | soon he | dropp'd ||
The treasure at my | feet. |19|19|

Charm'd with the | sight, the world, | I| cried, ◄| Shall hear of | this thy | deed: 11

My dog shall | mortify the | pride

Of man's

superior | breed: |11|

Butchief | my- | self | I will en- | join, |
A-wake at ❘ duty's | call, ||

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To show a | love |as | prompt as | thine |
To Him who | gives me | all. 99/991

THE DELUGE.

GENESIS, CHAPTER VII.

And the Lord said unto | Noah, || Come | thou, and all thy | house | into the

ark:

for thee have I seen | righteous be- | fore me

this

beast

|

in ¦

generation. Of | every | clean | thou shalt | take to thee by sevens, the |

seed a- | live | upon the face of | all the earth.

For yet seven days and I will cause it |

to keep

to rain upon the earth | forty | days and forand every | living | substance |

will I de- | stroy

ty nights:
that I have made,
off the face of the earth. |

And Noah | did | acthe Lord com- manded him. | was six hundred | years | old,

of waters was upon the earth. And Noah | went

and his wife,

into the ark,

flood.

beasts that are not

in

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from

cording unto all that

and his | sons' | wives | with him, |

because of the waters of the | Of clean | beasts and of |

and of

fowls,

clean, of every thing that | creepeth | upon the

There went in two and two |

into the ark, the male and the | female

and

earth, 111

unto | Noah | as | God had com- | manded | Noah. ||11| And it | came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. ||11| |

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In the ❘ six | hundredth | year of | Noah's | life, | in the second | month, the | seventeenth | day of the month, the same day, were all the | fountains of the great | deep | broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. |

And the rain | was upon the | earth | forty | days

and | forty | nights. 1717

In the self | same | day | entered | Noah, | and Shem, and | Ham, and | Japheth, the sons of Noah; and

the three | wives of his

Noah's | wife, and sons | with them, | into the | ark: They, and every | beast after his | kind, and all the | cattle | after | their | kind, | 1