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^^^MORFING- SONG 8.^
Printed and For Sale by the Author.
ROSSMOYNE, OHIO.
1899.
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INTRODUCTION.
number
of
poems
in
my
leisure,
have been prevailed upon by friends to pub lish them; yielding to their solicitations I here bv extend this little volume entitled, Morning Songs' to the public, and hope it will prove satisfactory
to
mv
readers.
THE AUTHOR.
SECOND COPt.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year, 1899, by Aaron Belford Thompson, in the office ot the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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[^^ AAEON BELPORD THOMPSON.
My dear
Sisters,
CLARA
AND PRISCILLA,
and tender
akki-.ction,
In memory of true
And
in
testimony of
Increasing love and gratitude,

This Volume
is
Dedicated
-
m^
THE AUTHOR.
Bria'M5LNis
m^m^
INVOCATION
Oil i>riicious Master, just
and
tiue,
Willi all
Thy wondrous
ii
plans,
Lead
us, a troddt
nation, tliroujih
This dark and stormy land!
Thou who
Midst
didst hâr our father's ciy.

1
sufferirig paiti an
woe,
Who
dried the tear drops frou) llnir eye,

j;uide us as
Can
we
go.
Let not our hearts with trouble wake.
And
say there
before
is
no way.
The hour
Gives
liie
morning break,
little
hope of day.
Oh
And
let this
be the darkest
hotir,
iighi
;
Which
let
vails the
dawning
us trust Jehovah's pojver.
Till
daybreak fades the night.
(5)
1VIJÊiKl:?iiGSi>:S0S.
NEW JERUSALEM.
Behold that
New
Jerusalem!
Her
Twelve
streets are
paved with
jiold
stately gates, ire set witli pearls
And
yet the half's not told.

rich
Great walls of
and precious sUjuc?
Surround
t'lat ciiy fair;
Sweet music from
thai heavenly clime,

air.
Swells out npi>n the
Within those wallb so beaulitul.
The heaven
imaiortais dwell;
What
peace:
and comfort they enjoy,

tell.
No
mortal tongi;c Can
The sun
Is
witliin those walls that shine,
He
who's glorifed
Splendor and glory's
all
combine,
In Ilim for nations died.
And
all
those gates of pearl and gold.
Forever stand ajar;
To welcome
strangers p issing by.
Where nothing can

(C)
debar
V
MBU'Km'^
sk)-^m'
Tiiere shall
my
weary soul
j
fiiui rest,
Where
blissful
ys
abound;
Around His
I'll
tlirone so pure ancj blest,

tropliies dow;n.
lay
my
MÊ'Kl'MS; SB'MUS.
OUR
A
song
GIRLS.
Ethiope maids!
to the clamsels,our
Her
crisp curly leeks, iti beauty Hrraynl.

is
Her
voice
so geiule,
s.j
lender so
iiut-;
Her
smiles glow like sun-beams;

like
Her eyes spark Her
dew.
teeth shine like pearls.her lauglitf r the while.
Re-echoes with music. like waves on the Xilr;
Her
steps are so gentle, kiudhearied

the
is
she;
The Ethiope maid, is
damsel
lir
me.
No
paints and no powder, bedecks her sweet face;

is
Her beauty
nature, the rarest of grace.
The
oils
and pomatums, ne'er touches her hair;

locks, i)y nature are there.
Those curled raven
Before ev'ry nation, exultant we'll sing;
Arrayed
in her beauty,our
maids we
will brinjr.
(8)
MBE^H^^ SBM16S.
A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE.
Walking through
life's
tranquil journey,
Flowers blooming 'neath her feet;
She have reached each year a milestone,

Stationed on
life's
highway
street.
On and
on, old time hath led her.
Through
the night, and through the day.
In her childhood's joys,and sorrows.
As
the milestones pass awav.
On
each one her

life's
name
is
written,
;
And
journey briefly toH

chiltihood.
Of her infancy and

Written
in the
purest gold.
And
her cup with
many
a blessing.
Have been
She
've
filled
from year to year.

ai
been blessed, with friends
kindreds;
And
a loving father's care.
(9)
MBIlÎif^
Si>^.liS.
And
a sympathetic mother,
Who
Sharing
have loved so dear since birth

all
her pains and sorrows,

her joys and mirth
;
Sharing
all
She have reached the twentieth milestone,

'Long her blooming path
of
life.
She hath grown

Soon
handsome
nobler
lady.
she'll face a
strife.
And
we've met to pay her homage,

all
Friends and kindreds,

'Tis
around;
her,
our debt that we should wish
All the joys that can be found.
May
life's
journey
in the future,
Be more radiant than
the past;
And
the purest light from heaven.
In her
pathway
e'er
be cast.
(10)
MîEi^î^s^
mmm.
BEYOND THE RIVER.

Just beyond the Just beyond
I
brimming
flowing
river,
tlie
tide,
have thoughts within
me
ever.
Of
rare scenes on yonJer side.
Days and montlis and years

Still
are fleeting;
;
that stream
is
passing on
Pilgrims,saints,
and angels greeting,
Those who
just have past beyond.
We
are journeying to that river;
Some have Some have From
reached the flowing tide;
crossed to "turn no never;
the scenes on yonder side.
Some have
scarce begun their journey;

it
Some have trudged
faint
and slow;
Some have reached
the topmost mountaii
Looking on the vale below,
Hi.)
They can
see the
brimming
river;
How
Where
divide her banks
between,
the parting fiiendsdoth sever,

tide to realms unseen.
Ford the
have dearest friends who've
left
me.
And have
Left their
crossed that whelming flood;

their earthly duty.
to mîot their
all,
And have gone

Where
'tis
God,
said. the
sun shines ever;

;
And
Where
Oh!
the trees forever green
there's grief ar.d paitirg never,
that Beulah land unseen.
When
I've trod life's
dreary highway,
Footsore, weary, lame and slow.
When
When
May
I
I've
climbed the mountain's summit,
I've reached the vale below.
cross that
its
brimming
river,
Fearless of
mighty flood;
Leave
my
earthly cares forever.
Cross with Joy to meet
my
God.
(12)
IVIBm^Îîe SB'IKIJS.
OUR NATIONAL FLAG.

Noble
flagjin
triumph
flowinef,
O'er this land where
rmw we
tj--,
With thy glorious colors showing,

Flag of truth, I'll
sitig of thee.
Many
a year you've shone your splendor,
Stationed on the highest towers;
Where
the sounds of music tender.

the breeze through leafy bowers.
Mounts
Thou
hast shone thy might and duty,
In the present and the past;
Thou
hast faced the storm with beauty,

blast.
Faced the tempest's furious
Oft before the deadly cannon,

Fell brave soldiers mangled^slain,
Floating steadfast
in
thy
mamman.
Floated at old Lundy's lane.
(13)
While amidst the rush, the hurry,

Midst the musketry sublime,
Lark
shrill notes the fife
ranp merry;
tht-
With a
zeal you've beat
time.
Many
a noble gallant warrior.

in red, the white, the blue,
Robed
In their tomb,a waits the
morrow;
'Neath the culd and chilling dew.
Now when
On
Still
blissful
peace and pleasure.
our land and on our sâs,
with stars and stnpes keep measure,
Floating on the balmy breeze.
Dearest flag,a debt,a duty.

All this nation
owes
to thee;
As you flow with pride and beauty.

With thy colors
fair to see.
With our arms, we
will protect thee;
And
our tongues shall speak thee true;
Flag of truth, most noble emblem;
Decked with
red, the white, the blue.
(14)
ME^l*MgfS0.WlG^.
MY COUNTRY HOME.
Near the highway
in a valley.
Whf re
Stands
sweet rose and pf>ppies bloom,

rally,
Wliere cool shade and breezes
my happy
country home.
On
her walls antique and rustic,
Clings the vernal leafy vines;

In the yard so calm majestic.
Grows
Orchard
the lovely columbines.
trees in vernal splendor,
Shades the grassy carpet green.
And
the song birds sing so tender;

leafy screen.
Hidden by the
Calm and
peaceful stands the dwelling,

I see,
While great beauty round
And my thoughts
Dawns
with rapture swelling,
a trodden path to me.
(15)
MÊ^Î'^J^
S_)^^]SS.
Dawns
a path of thorns an
a path of joy
roses;
Dawns
and gloom;
Dawns
Wept
I
the hoiir,o'er frien'!s most deartsr.

I
at their burial lo.nb.
reflect
upon my
cliiWlhood.
I
Round
this cottage
did play;
When
far in the beeche.i

I
wild-wood,
Gathered
sweet flowers of May.
And
plucked the precious jewels,

this
While
wood-land
did roam,
Wove them
into radiant garlands;

to
Brought them
my
country home.
Long may
Though
'Tis
stand this
li*tle
cottage.
birth
She hath harbored me since
the hue fades in her dotage,
my
deares
home on
earth.
(i6)
EMANCIPATION.
Three cheers !well may we shout with
joy,
And
Our
hail
Emancipaton;
long have been destroyed
:
fetters
We
are a free, free, nation.
No more
Thit
like cattle
on the
hills,
feed
upon the clover;

fcr
Shall wait our bretheru
their
doom,
Unable
to discover.
No more upon
The
cries of
our brother's track.
We'll hear the blood-hounds bayitig;
men
to brino;
him back,
With curse and
evil sayings.
No more
No more
Shall
our maidens bought and sold.

tyrant's booty;
The southorn
the brutal trader's gold.
buy the sable hpauty.
(17)
No more
our brave and gallant youths,
Shall tremble of the
morrow;
Behold, sweet liberty and truth,
Hath broke the chains of sorrow.

For now we stand on freedom's
plain,
With
ji>y
and exultation:
Though
scarred and maimed.

chain.
From bondage
We'll hail Emancipation.
Three cheers!
we'll
shout our liberty:

live.
Long may our
nation
Large, large, may grow her fruitful
tree,
And
sweetest
manna
give.
H8)
MB3R3îi^]g
mm^*
THE DREARY DAY.

The clouds creep low,the day
is
dark;
The wind howls sad and drear; The

rain desends with glittering spark
chet'rful sunlight near.
;
No
The orchard
Bends low
trees, their leaves all
drenched,
their vernal
crown;
The
furtile soil
still
her thirst have quenched,
But
the rain
comes down.
Oh
The
dreary daylfilled to the brim.

l)rooklet struggles on;
The
mist, the iOg,so dark.so

is
dim;
Oh!\vliere
sunlight gone?
That
glittering orb, once
lit
the land,
clear;
With splendor, bright and
Through stormy clouds
his light
grows wan
Have nature
lost
her cheer?
(i9)
MIl^M]6 S3^3S16S.
Deep
in
my
melancholy breast,
There comes a tranquil voice;
gentle
murmur pure and

soul rejoice.
blest,
Which bids my
The
fair
muse caught the cheering phrase,

like vesper
Which sounds
chimes;
Her pen retraced a
fiery blaze,
In feet of rhythmic rhymes.
read,
and
in
my
weary
in
soul,
The sun shone
again;
roll.
No more
life's
gloom about me
the dreary rain.
Though
tall
(20)
MY QUEEN.
Queen
of
my
heart,of thee
am
thinking;
'rhiiikinjj,of thed tlirough life's
dreary
dream
Biijrht in iny
thoughts as tht stars that
are twinkling,
Shines thy
fair
image so calm and
serene.
All
day
have roamed through wood-htnd
and meadow,
Scteking
tiie
beauty of nature's sweet flowers;
In the calm noon tide,rep -sed in thesha low
Bat ne'er found such beauty, among the

gieen bo vers,
Qjeen
of
my
to
heart, for thee
am
longing;
Longing
Rare
is
view thy beauty and grace;
thy beauty, to thee e'er belonging;
S.veet are the smiles on thy dear, winsome,

face.
(21)
M03RNMS saMgis.
Love
is
divine ;with love
adore thee;
Fair,sable damsel, to thee III be true;
As thy companion.fore'er
I'd
be happy;
Thou gem
of
my
casket that sparkles like
dew.
22
THE CHIMING BELLS.

Ho!watcliman,from yon belfry tower,
Ring out those
bells to
me!
And
let
my
fancies catch the power,
That
steals
upon my soul each hour,

their
While chimes
melody.
love to hear those
chiming
clear,
bells:
To me, their music

Time
after time,strange stories
tell.
And
Of
oft tliey ring the parting knell,
friends
and kinsmen dear.
And
oft
when
at the alter stood.
The modest
Sweet echoes
bride, the
groom,
,.
filled
the vernal wfxid;
Where
giant oak and elm trees stood,

,
While zephers shook their plumes.
love their sweet melodious chime,

It
wakes my sleeping
soul
clime.
They bear good news from heavenly

It
cheers the heart, uplifts the mind,

e'er those bells
When
doth
toll.
^3
love to hear their medley sound,
Swell on the sabbath morn:
Their music from yon tower,sinks down,

Into
my
heart with joy profound.
And
banish cares forlorn.
Ofttimes
in
peace and quiet

falls,
bliss.
The raptured music
My
soul craves for the parting kiss,
And
yearns to break that vale of mist,

like a thrall.
Which binds her
Tliey swell with music sweet and clear,
Upin each mortal's breast;
Our doom advances

Those
VVIien
near and near,.
bells shall ring year after year,

laid to rest.
we are
Ho!watchman,ring those
bells to
me!
And
let their
music
fall.
With chime and
glee,o'ei land, o'er sea.

all.
In blissful peace to
24
MBil^Î^^ SB^gS.
THE CHAIN OF BONDAGE.

Arise! arise!
Arise, with
my
fellow-men,
might and main;
Arise, with intellectual din,
And
cast aside your chfins!
For, like a
web around
us bound,
;
This chain hath long entwined

It
brought a mighty nation down,

their minds.
And humbled low
How
And
oft we're quelled
when ':empt
;
to rise,
By envy and
disdain
ofttimes wipe our tearful eyes,

try
And
no more our chains.
Oh
tear
them loose
in union's strength
We'll not be trampled
down;
We'll reach the promise land at length,
Behold the Ethiope's crown
(25)
iviDiRîi^)5
m^m*
LEAD
ME.
Lead me.oli my blessed Redeemer!

Ere
my
feet shall
walk astray;
'Iliiough this world of dire temptation,
Lead me on the heavenly way!
Lead me,thougli my
As
I
steps should faulter,

;
journey through this land

I
Wlien
meet vith world)

tigliter
conflicts,
Grasp me
by the hand.
On
the verge of earth's temptation,

streti4th
I fall, is
When my
Grasp
almost gone,
Haste before
dear Savior,
lead
my hand and
me
on
In
my
Let
earthly joys and sorrow.
me
not forget the
way
For too soon may dawn the morrow.

Should
my
steps be lead astray.
(26)
|\Ill(M^m^ S3^SiS.
THE BUTTERFLY.
The
butterfly with gorgeous hue,
Flits noiseless tlirough the
summer
air;
He
sips the
honey from the dew,

the wild flowers
fair.
And from
Thus day by day, he
soars abroad.
O'er .vood-land,hill and dale;
And
e'er his restless flight affords.
Sweet blossoms to regale.
From
east to west, from north to south,
He
Ne'er
takes his aerial flight;

'till
the
summer sun
is set.
He
And
shelters for the night.
at the rising of the sun,
When
birds begin to sing,
He
sallies
from his hiding place.

his moisted wings.
To dry
(27)
MBm^^^^g
SB3s:]es.
He
soars abroad, Ins wings

still
now
dry,
His beauty
remains;
with speed he
flies;
Now
slow,and
now
all
His days are
the same.
I'd
envy him of hue and

his abode,
life in
flight,
But seeing
I
learned that
Is
public sight,
not what private showed.
And when
declining days did come,
He
And
lost his tint of

in his
hue;
trembling
humble home,
Did perish
in the
dew.
(28)
|VI0m^^M]& SB^gS.
THE ONE I KNOW.

There's a gentle vioce like music;
From
being kind and true;
There's a smile like glowing sunbeam;
Sparkling on the
summer dew.
There's a footstep calm and gentle;
Lighter than a faries'tread
Two
bright eyes,of jet black beauty;

locks bebecks her head,
Ebon
Tiny hands so small but useful; Busy

Toiling
all
the livelong day;
in
her joys and sorrows.
Toiling on a pilgrim way.
Ebon
face bedecked with beauty;
Form most
Not one
tith
I
graceful to behold;
would be her value,
Should
give
my
weight
in gold.
(29)
MBEîD^)^
m^m*
THE SAME OLD

The same
old sun
in
is
SUN.
shining,
That shone
Bethlehem
That dawned upon the morning,
When
Christ our Saviour came.
His splendor
is
no brighter,
His rays are spread the same,
As spread with gold on
the streets of
ol
Where He healed
the deaf alid lame.
The same
old sun
is
shining.
That shone on Galilee;
When He
called
two angling brothers,
Andsaid,"Lo,follow me."
While down that dusty highway,
The same
old blazing sun
Shone down upon
my
Saviour's brow,
And
on Capernaum.
(30)
And
at the Jordan river,

free,
This sun shone bri];ht and
When He
to John, who stood

it
amazed,
Said, "Suffer
to be."
Through the land
of old Judea,
cities
Through neighboring
round,
Where
e'er there
went our Saviour,
The same The same
old sun shone down.
old sun was shining,

'fore Pilate stood:
When He
Where
sat the false accusers,
Who
As they
yearned tu shed His blood.
hailed
Him
king with scoffing,
R(>bed Hitn with purple gown.
The
radiant light of the golden sun.
In silence glittered
down.
And on
the road to Calvary,
With thorn wreath on His brow,
The same
old sun was shining down,
That shines upon us now.
(31)
But when upon that
fatal cross,
When
the
pang of death passed through
Vile earthquakes, shook this sinful earth,
This sun was hid from view.
And round His tomb upon
that morn,
When weeping Mary

That
came,
Tlie sun renewed his brilliant light,

glitttrring
orb of flame.
And when an angel
rolled the stone.

said,
And
to that
mother
'"He've rose, He's gone to Galilee;
Come,
see where
He
hath layed."
Behold, with glittering beams of gold.
This sun gleamed round

"All
Him
then,
power
is
mine/'He bravely told,

to
"Go! preach my word

Still
men."
sun.
shines the
same old blazing
He
runs his course each day
While nations perish one by one.
He
shines upon their clay.
(32)
Mamîî^ S^$.
THE SUMMER NIGHT.

Balmy
are the breezes blowing.
the sun sinks in the west;
Low
Cattle far and near are lowing,
HoTiewardjSeeks the plowman
rest.
Flowers that shone
in
gorgeous beauty,
'Neath the summer,shining sun,
Droop
their
heads repose with nature,
Close their petals one by one.
While the lark and feathered songsters.

Shelters in their leafy nest,
Gaze upon
the fading twilight.

west.
Gaze upon the golden
And when
sleep the weary songsters,

their flight.
When through dream-land, takes

All the air
is filled
with beings,
night.
Borne upon the wings of
Fire-flies with
enchanted lanterns.
Through
the darkened
gloom they come
Close behind pursues the beetle,
With a steadfast noisy hum.
M^msiMis s&^|gf
And
tttc
screech-owl's cry re-echoes^,
Through the moor-land, through the swamp;

Through the
forest
and the
fallow,
Boldly (foth the wild-fox tramp.
Far amo(>g the
stars an echo,
still,
Borne upon the zephyrs

Falls into
my
ear so faintly,
'Tis the notes of whip-poorowills.
While the ponderous orbs

Twinkles with a silvery
in
heaven,
light,
And
theair,aU
filled
with calmness,
Welcome, be y summer night!
(m
mMM^]^ W^m,
AM GLAD.
I
am
glad that
its
drank
I
at the
Fountain
From
And
waters
found a
relief:
that stream from Calvary's mountain,

affliction
Have healed my
and
jB^rief.
How
I
thirst
when
roamed
o'er the drscit.
And viewed
the oasis before:
journeyed thnugh heal and through

sand-storm.
And
But
oft for
sweet waters deplored.
at length
arrived at the Fountain,
Though
footsore and blind from the sanc"
Blessed stream of Calvary's mountain,
O'er the banks of the channel
it
ran.
drank of
it's life
healing waters,
it
With a sparkle
like pearl
did gleam,
rejoicing:,
My
I
thirst
was there quenched, and

in that life's
bathed
given stream.
MBilîl^!^
$0i^<
THE OAK TREE.

By
the river that
is
flowing,
Towards
the ocean's tide,

tree, tall, gigantic,
Stands an oak
Branches spreading wide.
And
his
form so
tall
and
stately,
Brace the cool spring breeze,
With
his cr<wn so bright
and
vernal.
King
of all the trees.
Grayhaired men, now old
ant! palsied.
Once
in
childhood played,
river,
'Ntath this oak tree by the
Where
Through
the acorns layed.
the wear of
many a summer,
Wax
Same
Still
childhood to man,
valorous strength and beauty,
in
the oak tree stands.
And
his leaves hath yield toautximn.
Many
a century year.
When
the red
men roved
the forest.
Chased the panting
deer.
(36)
{I
MBm<M^M)& saîgs.
Oft there floated

In his
down
the river,
snug canoe,
Indian youth with
bow and
quiver:
Here, the wildbirds flew.
Aii(i
the fox with tearless footsteps,
Roamed
Dct-r
the forest here,
and fawn, beneath the moon-light,

little fear.
Grazed with
All al<jne the
oak
tree standeth,
Now
the forest's gone,
Ne'rr the scenes of wood-land nature.

Left to look upon.
Birds migrated, flowers created,
Red men came and gone;
Time hath
like the
flowing river,
Drift to parts
unknown
Still
he holds his youthful beautv.

his broad, green
he's
Wears
crown;
As a landmark
now
standing,
Known
for miles around.
(37)
THE FORESIGHT.
Behold, the time advances.
It's
nearing day by day
And
view a gleam of sunlight,
Through a mist and stormy way.
The hour
As
the
is fast
approaching,
Book
of Truth records,
When
the hand of Ethiopia,
Shall weal her trusty sword.
Not with
stern
and brutal sovereign.

of might,
Not with blood-stained hands

But
in
freedom's name
she'll
govern,
With justice,truth,and
right.
Though
Caucasia's tongues deride us.
In their 'tempt to
make
us
fall.
But
God who
loves His children.

all.
Looks upon us,one and
And through His
precious promise.
vail.
Like a dark and misty
Behold, a ship comes sailing.
With rainbow-tinted
sails.
(8)
M#m^î^]g S0igs,
The
pilot at his rudder,
With cold and bleeding hands,
Long
stood with fear and trembling,

lost
While
upon the strand.
And
oft
he lowers the anchor,

fall
At night
on the deep,
Or when
the storms are raging.

vigils
His trusty
keep;
Through the darkest fog before him,
Which
vails the light before.
He
stands the howling tempest,

looks for yonder shore.
And
Across the stormy waters,
Though
the winds
pilot
comedown
with might,
Ere long the
on that ship.
Shall see a gleaming light.
The dawn
of
day advances,
'Twill calm the rolling sea,
Like the
Hand
that calmed the tempest,
On
the lake of Galilee.
(39)
MBii4Ki&
m^m.
view her
in
my
vision,
Her shipmates and her crew,

With trusty hopes are waiting,
To anchor
at
yon view.
Though many
a gallant shipmate,
in
Who
were drowned
the dreadful drep.
Lay buried
"neath the waters;
In their aqueous graves they sleep.
see one brave old sailor.
Who has
climbed the topmost mast.

with l(iud,Hosanna,
cast.
And he shouts
At the scenes before him
She's heading for you harbor.
Her
sails are
now
unfurled.
the winds.
Though drenched, c|nd shaken by

Her splendor awes
the world.
Their dawns another vision,
And
I
the Muses bid
me
write,
see her in the harbor.
Her
sails are
sparkling bright.
(40)
see
Queen Ethiopia,
all
Before
nations stand,
in royal purple,
is in
She
is
robed
a seal
And
As she
her hand.
lifts
her hand, with jewels,
To
take the solemn vow,
Kings,prince,and nobles,hail her,

All nations 'fore her bow.
(41)
M^m^^Mie
SB3S]6S.
THE SHINING STAR.

Shine on, bright stars With sârkltrt^ light! Shine
in
yon heavenly
dbrtle,
Illume the skies, with splendor bright,

In
my
celestial
home!
hue,
Ye sparkling gems,of sapphire

That stud the
All
skies afar.
glowing
like the
summer's dew,
!
Shine on,ye faithful stars

Shine on, for as
I
view the sight,
Thy
bright gleam cast before.
My
wtary
ul yearns for that Light,

shore.
Which shines trom heaven's bright

glorious star.
o'er us fall.
It
is a hright,fiii(l
Whose splendor
My
soul perceives
lijEiht
it
from
afar.
all.
His
illumes them
It
gives the color to the flowers,
Whose odor sweet doth
yield
Provides with nourishment each hour.
The
lilies
of the field.
(42)
Ml^m^W^ SD^^S.
And weary
Day
after
travelers 'neath this Light,
day are led
Their blinded eyes receive new sight, Their hungry souls,are fed.
Then spread abroad ihy

With
Illume
glorious light,
rarest blessings stored
my
weary soul by night.
With peace and sweet accord
(43)
MB^'NIfMie SB3K16S.
THE FEAST.
Come, the
'Tis a
feast
is
spread and wailing,
message from the King;
Come, and thus partake ye needy,
Come,and
'Tis a feast
all
your friends do bring!
where
all's
invited.
Rich and poor,ihe great, ihe small,
And
the traveler lone, beni^hteJ, the bearer of the pall.
And
Come, ye
blind ones, lepers crawling.
Come, ye halt,and come,ye lame!

For the message
still is
calling.
Dine
into the halls of
fame!
Come and
Many
dine, for great the table,

still;
the vacant places
Throngs the
rich, the poor, disabled,
Yet the Master's
hall's not filled.
(44)
M^m^sîM^ s^^gjs.
THE SONG
From
BIRD.
There's a music sweet and low,

a song-bird in the west;
And
the sweet notes gently flow,

little,
From her
'Tis a
leafy nest.
song
I
I've often heard.
But
cannot catch the words.
While the cadt-nce swettly echoes pure

an
1
blest^
When
And
I
the sun sinks in ihe west,
At the closing of the day,

the golden
beams aglow,
can hear her, far away;
r can hear her warble sweet,

I
can catch each note complete,

I
While
listen to that
sweet and geiiile
lay.
Oft
in
melancholy mood.
I
Blindly
the future brood,
O'er some destination hidden from
my
view,
Oft
my
heart
is
cheered like spring.
When
her warble sweetly ring,

of fading twiliglit
Through the haze
and
the
dc-v\
(45)
;:\i!t)E'M^mg^
mmm.
There's a sweeter music
still,
From
a song-bird
'mong the
hills,
In a quiet country dwelling faraway;
And
her music thrilled with love,

as a dove,
Calm and gentle

Lingering ever
in
my memory
fair,
day by day,
'Tis a sable
damsel
Jet black curled, her raven hair,
And
her biiuty never changing stays the

*
same.
And
her winsome, dusky face,
Marks her with divinest grace.

She's
my sweet-heart;
not
tell
But
I will
her name.
(46)
MBE^^MIS SB5fgS.
SCENES OF LIFE.
As fade
Far
the evening twilight,
in
yon gleaming west,
And
the
plowman, and the reaper.

their rest.
Homeward-bound, to seek
Fades
my
childhood days.and fancies,

vision of a child,
Fafles
llie
Fades the
fairy tales
and
fictions,
Once my
childish thought beguiled.
Midst rare scenes of vanished fancies.

Still
remains
in
memory
bright.
There are visions which enhances,

Still to
me
a childish light.
Oft they shine o'er man's dominion,
One
brief instant then are tlown.

his pinions.
Like the condor on
Mounts
to
summits scarcely known.
Soon the youthful might and
valor.
Of this form
shall lose its sway.

shall faintly
Soon these eyes
glimmer.
And
this
head be bent and gray.

(47)
î!yiB3RMi'M]6
SB^SS.
Siill
among
ti:ne's vast
procession,
March the multitude so brave,

l*age,aiul sage of
mark
profession,
Seeking but the solemn grave.
Day
I
i)y
day
in this
procession,
am
pressing towards the van.

fa ling
While the
days of childhood.
to
Change my youthful form
man.
So I'm pressed from man's dominion,

Thr(>ugh the scenes of joy and gloom,
p'ill
I
mount
death's direful pinions.

silent
Aged infirmed,a
tomb.
(48)
FAREWELL TO SUMMER.
Farewell to the summer,
Behold, she hath fled;
Her bright vernal
foliage.
;
Are faded and dead
The
liot,gol(leii, sunbeams,
Shine brisk through the trees;
The
leaves on their pinions.
Ascends on the breeze.
Farewell to the summer.
For autumn
is
here,
The
skies they are cloudy.
The days dark and

Wild winds
drear;
like a deluge,
Through
fields shall desend.
The
trees of their beauty,
Must
yield to the wind.
The
birds that are known.
For music and beauty.

Behold they have flown
(49)
M^H^^MI^
SBÎ&$.
The caw
of the
crow.and the cry of the
jay,
Resounds through the wood-land,
And
fields far
away.

Sad, sad, my refrain,
Her beauty and splendor.

Shall fade 'neath the rain;
All cloudy
and dreary our days soon
shall
b>*.
And
O'er
the east winds shall howl,
meadow and
lea.
Farewell to the summer, 'tis sad to depart.

All thy
charms they have vanished,

art;
Thy beauty and

The
vines have
grown crimson,
On
walls over head.
Sweet odorous blossoms, are faded, and dead.

Farewell to the summer,long*fore thy return
Sad
For
hearts,shall await thee.
thee, they shall yearn;

shall
They
honor thy beauty,

thy coming,
Of days long ago,and welcome

Thiou}i,h the tiostand the
mu
v.
(50)
MBEÎÎS
S3J}]6S.
THE TRAVELER'S DREAM.

Ill
the calm of the noontide, and silent
tle
day,
A
He
traveler sat
down
for to rest;
bore
rout
in his
hand a
plat of the way,

best.
seemed easy and

and of
Full of zeal
val(>r,this traveler
had come,
Through lands
that were rugged aud^teep;
Midst music of birds,and the vvildbee's hum.
Midst fragrancf,ihat rose from the radiant

blooms,
T hrough
While
brooklets that flowed to the deep.
loots( re
and weary, as he rest'neath the

shade.
in
His eyelids soon shut

In his vision and
repose;
fair
dream he saw a
maid,
Midst wreathes of blossoms and
rose.
The
eyes of the sleeper beheld
in that
dream;
With marvel he looked on the
sight,
Her raiments, their sheen were purple an green.
And
her jewels like stars of the night.
(51)
She drew near the stranger,

Slie stretched forth her
hand,
And
thus did the traveler behold,

its
plat with
higliways, that led to a land,

city of gold.
That land was a

But
its
And
route was so iugged,the hills were iô steep, the highways were dreary, forlorn
;
There were tombs of travelers.

In death they did sleep,
Tiiere were vines
and brambles and thorns.
Fair damsel, he said to the beautiful maid,
Thniigh
my
my
travels've been
rugged and
laid,
stet p,
Yet
path have been
with flowers
and
v\ith
shade.
Their odor and fragrance most sweet.
The end
Yet
I
of
my journey
though
my
eyes
can't behold, fain could observe from aiar.

I
Should
look in yon future, a city of gold

a star.
With splendor as bright as
(52)
Arise,said the damsel, and journey with n>e;
And soon on your path way

That the
fruits of thy toil
we'll find,
through sunshine and shade,
Leads not
to a fate so sublime.
He
seized her fair
hand so they sped through

the land
:
Cross plain, through valley and glen,
And soon
in his d
ream, by a cliasm did stand,
Beheld there his fate and the end.
He
viewed from the brink as he
paust-il
with the maid.
Horrid sights, as he gasped for hisbrt-ath.

In that grim dreary depth through darknt-ss
and shade,
He
beheld
tin
angel of death.
His wings were outspread and he soar ed o'er the dead. Where travelers, benighted had f'll.
And
Of
the bones on the waste.

that vail thick were spread.
And
The
the grim sights were startling to
tell.
traveler
was frig'itened;
to ietrac<i o'er
lea.l.
He
groped for her hand
the route she had

All trembling
and weary alone did he stand

the damsel had fled,
He awoke, but
(53)
l0;^'Kf#]&Sig^5i]^;'
CALLING.
I
have heard dear friends,a Saviour,

Calling, calling,day by day;
Night and morning, noon and evening,
Never ceasing,calls away.
When
I
vvitli
mirlh
among my comrades,
rejoice,
do
frolic
I
and
When
I
panse awhilt; at
leisure,
can hear Tiy Saviour's voice.
can
fiear
my
Saviour calling,
In the tranquil houfs of night
When
the
morn and
silent noonliiie,
Wakes lheûn
with gold* n light.
Heard His voice throuQjh earthly struggles,
As
I've
shed a parting
tear.
O'er dear friends, who've gone before me.
As each moment
fleets the year.
Though
Loud
Still I
the din of earthly tumult.

into
my
ears doth
fall.
hear
!
my
Saviour's pUading,
call.
Hark
hear His loving
(54)
MJ^JRÎ'Mj;
Sfe><5]gS.
Shall
turn
away unheeding,
Slight His promise so secure,
While
hear
my
Saviour pleading.
Pointing 'cross to Jordan's shore?
m)
IVrOEN'M^ SBÎSS.
FLEETING TIME.
Time
is
fleeting, time is fleeting,
Swiftly doth each
moment
till
fly
Scarcely'dawns the morn

Short we
live till
even;
we must
die.
Time
is
fleeting.tiine
is
fleeting,
sea,
As the waters seek the

So down
Till
life's
stream we are drifted,

eternity.
we reach
Time
is
fleetitig,tinie is fleeting,
Lei not
follies lure us on.
And we waste our

Till the
time with
life is
trifles.
bloom of
gone,
Then with
feeble steps
and
pcdsicd,
Down
life's
stream with empty hands,

title,
Leaves no honor, leaves no
Print no footsteps in the sand.
Let us estimate
its
value,
life's
While we through
Let us gather
in
journey go,
our harvest.
Ere the winter comes with snow.
(66)
~i>Ii)E'M'M^ SBîeS.
DEATH OF ABSALOM
Throughout the courts and palace
halls,
Resounds a mighty
warrior's call
The
notes from out his trumpet horn,

;
Reechoes on the early morn
Enchanted by
its
warlike sound,
His gallant charger paws the ground,
And champs
his
'ît
with rage.
All, summoned
by bold Joab's
soldiers, large
call.
tall,
Ten thousand
and
And
archers with theii bows in hand.

in line at hi>
Did form
command.
Out through
the swinging palace gates,

plates,
March valorous men Aith spears and
And
war-steeds robed
in
trappings gay.
Canters and prance; their piercing neigh.
Commingles with
the warrior's lay,
In one harmonious sound.
While lluough the swinging gates they go, Footmen, with battle-ax and bow,
War-chariots bearing gallant knights,
Went up
against the Israelites,
(57)
ÎBiR'Nl'K^
SB^^S.
King Dnvid stood beside the
gate,
His trouble was a ponderous weight,
And
while he breathes a sih^nt prayer,
His eyes the sign of weeping wear;
To
passing captains one by one,

says, "deal gentl3^vvith
He
my
son."
So Joab and
Arrayed
liis
men
of might.
their armies foi the fight;

tht-y stood.
With sprar and baltle-ax
Among
The
tlje
oaks of Ephriam's wood.
traitorous
Israi. lilt-s
came down.
Upon King David's
host;
Amidst defying trumpet sound,
Throughout the wood, and waste around,

Fell
men by
thousands, h)st
The clashing
of the
sword and
sliield.
Through Ephriam's wood resound;

Brave soldiers
fell
upon that
field.
And trampled by
the horses'heel,
Lay prostrate on the ground.
(58)
War-steeds, blood-stained and riderless,
Down
ilirough the ranks, with fright did press. Their eyes like fire,flashed left and right,
their
While captains urged
men
to fight.
And long
before the set of sun,
noble victory was won.
The
blast of Joab's
trumpet loud,
Subdued
the tumult of the crowd.

in their
Brave warriors
triumph came
of fame.
With broken sabt;rs;men With gory ax and broken
shield,
field,
Returned victorious from that
Out through
How How valorous men

The death
Upto
the
the land the tidings spreads Israel's traitorous host had fled;
wen; overcome,
of willful
Absalom.
chamber
o'er the gate,
With breaking heart from troubles
great.
He
rose, and
weeping as he went,
In dire distress, his sad form bent,
His troubled soul most overcome,

Cried, Absalom
!
Oli, Absalom
Rebellious
in
thy youthful pride,

I
Oh, that
for thee,
could have died
IVIDE'N^Mgi S^3S1^S.
ON THE SOUTHERN
On
SIDE.
either side of the river's bank,

;
Sweet nature hath waken the bloom
And
the vernal trees, and the grasses rank.

winter's gloom.
Subdue drear
As thunders along the turbulent
tide,
To
the enti of her flow in the sea;

little
How
The
she know, that herch mnel

divides,
land of the slave and the free.
The bondman
ne'er ceased
in
from
his toil
He
To
the corn. sang,yet the strains were not glee;

the twilight of eve, fiom the dawn of the morn.
the land of the free,
He had gazed on
Long,long,had he
toiled
on the southern
And gazed on
shore. that flowing tide;
And
As
ofttimes grim thraldom he sadly deplored, he looked on the northern side.
(60>
ma^R'MÎ'MjG S|i>'5i^S.
But the rigorous law, and the
river's flow,
Defied him to venture the tide.
For the hands of the

-
spoiler, had threatened
the
fait
Wow.
Should a bondman
to abide.
No
Is
hopes for his freedom, his liead decked

with gray.
grief;
bowed low with trouble and
And
his heart throbs with sighs.
As he longs
for the day,

relief.
When
death shall bring his
m.
|#iK^^M]e S_e^'SS.
BE READY.
Have your windows open, and your lamps
trimmed and bright; Put on the gospel armor of the purest white;
Keep
the pickets at their duty.
In the highest towers and domes.
And
be ye therefore ready ;when the
Bridegroom comes!
Have your windows open, and your

For soon the day
shall vanish;
iarnps
trimmed and bright;
And
As
then dawns dreary night;

the tempter prowls through darkness
its lair,
is
,
When
a wild beast from
Where
the watchman's light
gleaming.
He
can never harm us there.
Have your windows open, and your

!
la
mps
trimmed and bright; Behold the Bridegroom cometh,

His raiments pure and white;
He
haih bid you to the table,

feast hath long
For the
been spread
So be ye therefore ready, to eat that living

bread
(62;
M<|)M'NM^
S@'JH'^S.
THE TEMPEST.
We
have ofttimes heard
in
our childhood,
settler's knee,
While perched on some old

Fanciful tales of the forest;
And
tales of the briny sea.
How
the hunter that trudged through the

w\)()d-land,
Returned when the sun's ^leam was low,
Of drear
battle-fields 'neath the
moonlight
Where
The
fell
the friend and the foe
tales of the sea, they
were many;
Of her
sailorSjher
ebb and her flow,
Of
the
many
ships lost in the tempest.

far
In the
days of the
long ago.
Among
There
the tales that were stariling,

to
Time upon time

is
me
told,
one of a most dreadful tempest;

o'er mortal
That rages
man's soul.
It
dawns with
sin's tetnpting pleasure
In the
morn,when the
soul first
awakes;
And thunderaus
While storms on
cl()U(ls,thicklv gather.
tiie
weary soul breaks.
(%
IM^MiX'LM'eS^^S&S.
The bulwark
of life
which surrounds
gall,
it,
'Neath torrents of torture and
^Neath storm-winds of direst temptations,
To
oft they are
shaken, they
fall.
Wliile thicker and dark, grows the tempest,
As the day advances we're
told.
The
fierce, dreadful
winds oi temptation.
In torrents they charge on the soul.
The deluge
of sin's reenforcements.
dart,
With scepier,and missel.and
Joins in with the host of marauders;

In destruction they seek for the heart.
The
soldiers
grow
baffled and weary,.
While
stifling
smoke sliadows
are
the
air.
The wounded among them The dying ones groan

in
many;
despair
Ere long, when hopes were most vanished,
cry, but not in despair,
Comes
forth
from a new reenforcement;

of defiance, a prayer.
With shouts
mi
|\lDKiKl^^ SD^^S.
The
baffled ones gather about them,
To
The
banish their fear and their dread;
Forthwith to the rampart they follow

bearer's cross 'bvjve their heads.
Away
The
flies
the evil pursuers,

'tis
Froni the sight of that standard

thick clouds of
told.
gloom and
of darkness,
Fall back from their charge on the soul.
(09
LIFE'S PROCESSION.
They
arc passing, one
by one;
Morning;, noon, at set of sun;
When
When
the
dawn awakes
the day,
the ntxintide
shadows play;
Fleeting, like the
morning dew,
'Neath the golden sunlight's hue,

In the race of
life
they run;
They They
are passing.one by one.
are passing,one by one;

set of
Morning, noon, at
sun;
tlie
Through
the sunshine and
shade.
Pass the matron and the maid
Through
the vale of death they go.

of bitter woe,
;
Through the gloom

In the race of
life
they run
They
They
are passing,one by one.
are passing, one
by one;
Morning,noon,at
set of sun;
Men
of
wisdom. might, and fame.
Princes, paupers, kings the same;

All,
All,
must meet that solemn
fate,
must pass death's chilling gate

life's
When
They
toilsome race
is
run,
are passing, one by one.
THE LOCK OF
I
HAIR.
have
in
my
casket a jewel,
More
'T
is
precious, than rubies or pearl;

onl)' a little
blue ribbon.
United, and wove with a curl.
T
A
is
the curl of an Etliiope damsel,
Tinted with det-p niidnij^hi hue;

gloss adtis fourfold to
its
beauty.
With a glittering sparkle
like
dew.
Her
tiny black
hands plucked
this treasurt
From
And
As
the mass of jet curls on her head.

in the little
they wove
blue ribbon;
a token of fotidness.she said.
Her sweet
That
smiles, they
haunt
me
forever,
curl, and the
ribbon of blue,
casket shall sever;
true.
Tliey ne'er from
my
For Ihold them as tokens most
(67;
JMDHi^'i^'^ SB'M^S.
FRIENDSHIP'S PARTING.
Otttimes when friend from friend depart,
new,sweet fondness touch the heart.
A
'T
is
feeling so sublime.
but the shaft from cubid's bow,

starts love's
Which
crimson blood
to flow,
So ends my simple rhyme.
(68;
MieE'iKM^ %-Bmm.
THE NEW year;

Dying,ciying,yes he's dying,
Hark!
his friends dotii

!
crowd around;
See iheni
lo,they
all
are crying;
tlie
Soon
his son shall
wear
crown.
Tired and weary are the watchers,
They have watched
since early
dawn;
Strike the clocks,one hour of midnight,
Soon
will
dawn
the
new
on
year's morn.
Slow the clock

Silent
ticks
tin;
mantle.
light,
gleams the grate's red

is
Bring him water, he
dying;
its flight.
Soon the soul
will
take
Raise him^from his couch, he's sinking!
Bind a wet cloih round his head;
Glared and dazed, his eyes cease blinking.
Hark
!the old year he
is
dead.
Bring the shroud, the
pall, the bearer! tear.
Death hath rent the parting
Slow and solemn comes the
carrier,
Ccmes
the son,the new,new,year.
(69;
itt)UNiN^ m^^s..
On
liis
head, the crown of jewels,
That
thousand kings have worn
Some
S'.Miie
too well
we know were
cruel,
were careworn and forlorn.
Mounts he on the monarch's
station,.
And he
smiles with kingly cheer,
As he looks on every nation;

Hark!
Drink
it is
the now,
new
year.
his health, and spread the tabled
Welcome him
Thanks
to
with mirth and cheer!

able,
God, that we are

another year.
Thus
to see
(70;
GOI.IATH
Bdluilil l!ie
AND DAVID.
of Galli,
champion
His height,six cubits and a span;
valorous giant, stern with wrath,

Deties of Israel, every man.
Ail
i2;lilterinLj
gleams
his
armor bright,
Aglow
dotli shine his
helmet crest;
Brass greaves encase his legs of might,
A mammtih
gorget
shit Ids his breast.
Into his giant hand he holds,
A spear
Oft
with staff like weaver's
beam;
Israel's host he 've jeered so bold,
In bantering jest his
armor gleams.
vale.
For
forty
days through Elah's

fall
At dawn of morn, at
His challenge with
-
of niglit,
its
hideous wail,
fright.
Fell
on Saul's host'vvith deathly

tall,
Thus spake Goliath, large and

"Are not ye servants
While
I
(f
King Saul,
am
bnt a Philistine,
Why
And
stand ye warriors there serene?

thee.
Send down a chosen man from

let
him come and
fight with
me!
And should
Then
he overcome
my
might,
wevviil serve ye Israelites.
171;
"
But should
liis
strength before
me
fail,
And
o'er
him should my strength

shalt
prevail.
Then thou
bow
before
my
host,
And
yield thy nation to his lost;"
The men
of tsrael all
gave way.
call,
Beneath Goltath warlike
Quoth
he, "I
do defy
this day,
Ye men
of Israfl,one an<l all!"
Into the rank> that quaked with fear,
There came a ruddy dauntless
lad,
shepherd's garnuMU he did wear,
staff,and trusty sling he had;

ear,
;
The tumult broke on David's

Such
b*)astful, scoffing,
wrath
His eyes l)eheld the ruffian there;
That mighty man
of
Gath.
"Who
Why
is
this giant Philistine,
Upon yon
slope doth trod.
should his shining armor's gleam,
Defy the host of God?

I'm not afraid this
man
to fight,
My God
I
hath gave
me
grace;
care not for his valorous might,

I'll
meet him face
to face.
M#3E<M?I<M^ SBiîeS.
"I
know
thy pride, "brave Eliab said.
Why earnest thou down hither? Go see that father's flocks be fed! Who keepeth them together?"
Again the sheplierd spoke the words,
That
fell
on one and
all,
The
captains of the armies heard.

the news to Saul.
And brought
"Go
seek that lad,"upspoke
King Saul,
And bring him unto me;
Who
I
says
he'll fight
Goliath
tall;
fain his face to see.
Forthwith they brought the shepherd boy
Among
the warriors
frail,
And David
said with boastful joy,
\'Of him, let no heart fail!"
Saul said, "thou art a ruddy boy,
Thou
uttercth
haughty wrath,
With ease he can thy form destroy,

This champion of Gath.
"Thy
servant watched his father's sheep,
'Mid fields of Bethlehem,

A[lion prowled the forest deep.
And
stole a precious lamb.
(73;
overran
my
fleeing
fot;,
That robbed my
I
father's fold,
dealt on
I
him a deadly blow.
slew him on the wold;

led
The Lord who
me
forth that day,
Among
Will give
those fields of green,
me
might,an(l strength to slay.
This giant Philistine."
The
youth, in coat of mail,Sanl armed,
His armor bright did glow,
The awe
struck cnptains
r >u-i.l
him swarm
td.
"The Lord be
"Thou
with you, go!"
hast borne this armor well, my Kiiig,

art a warrior tried.
Thon
Give back
I'll
my
shepherd
staff an<l sling.
cast this coat aside.
For
am
but a shepherd lad.

I
This sword
dare not cling,

I
All combats were the Lord's

I'll
had,
meet him with
my
sling."
As David spake
these words
pn (found.
ground
yell.
;
He dashed the armor

Upon
to the
Decends the slope,his warlike
the heathen's host did swell.
(74;
He
reiiclied the
brook and stooping down,
He
cliose five holders, smooth
and round
And one
Went
Saul's
into his sling did lay.

forth, that
man
of
Gath
to slay;
army gave one
feeble cheer,
Goliath, daiiiitlessly drew near.
His armor bearers
'fore
him run,
His coat of mail reflects the sun.

Its
massive weight, a ponderous load,

slowly came with stealth he trod.
He
And
seeing David with his rod,
He
cursed hiin by his heathen Gods;

I
"Am
Come
adog, tiiou
Israt^l
slave
to
Thai thou shouldst come

Unto me! thy llesh
me
with staves?
Til tear.
To feedthe
beasts.and fowls of air,"

of Gath,
'
"Thou Cometh mighty man

The shepherd David
said,
''With armor,shield, and greaves of brass,
And helmet on
thy head.
boy.
To meet an unarmed shepherd
To
slay
him with thy sword,
This day thou giant, I'll destroy;

This battle
is
the Lord's.
175;
Thou stands and chide
in sullen scorn,
With veiigence,ire,and mirth,
From
Thy And
off thy giant trunk, this
morn,
head, I'll cleave to earth;

thy captains and thy host.
scoff
all
Who
Shall
ny sheplierd
their gallant
rod,
mourn
Israel,
champion's
lost;
Of
know
their
God."
These words the mighty champion heard,
He
Of
paid but
little
heed;
stirred,
Israel, not a
man had
On David He
He
haste with speed;

feit
plants his
firm to the ground.
halts,he wheels hisslitig an>und,
Tlie bolder tied with whizzing sound;
Itsunks deep
in
Goliath's head;
his beareis fled.
He
groaned, he
his
fell,
Upon
And
baffled
dying
foe.
The shepherd boy
did tread.
with the champion's sword, one blow.
Struck off his mighty head;
The host
of Israel
mad
with joy,
'Rose with tumultuous shout.
They chased, they slaughtered and destroyed.
They put
their foes to rout.
(76;
M0B'5îiXl(i^)iKSi&.
Th.
igl)
vale,o'rr liills.and slopes of gfien
S.ul's
army chased
the Philistines;
Until through Ekron gates they went,
Back
Israel turned
and spoiled
their tents;
Now
He
David with
to
his
captured prize,
;
Turns
Jerusalem
bears the head of monstrous
siz^-;
The people gaze
with great suprise,
And
hail the conqueror's
name.
<n;
i\i^3ii(M?i<M^
m^m*
LIFE.
THE JOURNEY OF
Spread
In our spriiig,tlie glorious sunlight.

his fulgent light
abroad;
And
her vernal grass, and roses,
Decorates our pilgritn road.
Roses
in their rarest
beauty.
Grasses of an evergreen,
They
are placed on special duty
In this land, by
hands unseen.
From
And
the spring, there
dawns
the sunuiH
fair rost-s full in

in ceaseless
bloom,
Soon. begins
number.
Dropping
petals, one
by one.
So our youth
dotli
wax
to
manhood.
And
the childish face luith fled.
Like the fading roses'petals.

Fall
among
dawns
its
the grasses dead.
And
as
the dreary autumn,
With
ripened sheaves of grain,
And
the sweeipng winds are tossing.

plain,
Golden sheaves upon the

(78;
ma^JBiî^^ s^'5^s.
Come
man's autumn, short the
vvariiinu,
Bright hath shone the golden sun,
Day by
Soon
day, his light grows

life's
dimmer;
journey will be done.

fall, till
Scarcely
dawns the
winter,
Comes
Garners
with chilling hands so cuki,

the ripened harvest;
fold.
in
Brings the sheep into the
So man's
lot is like the harvest;
Reaped and stored away on high,
Some
like grain that
never ripen
On
the field are left to die.
(7;
GO YE UNTO EVERY NATION.

Go
Go
ye unto every nation,
before the even tide,
j
Go
with
y ail
consolati
)ii,
Spread the gospdj.ir an Spread

it
vvi
lei
far
among
the nation
)r;
Give
it
to rich
and po
Leave
it
at the scoffer's station.

it
Hang Hang
As
on the heathen's door!

tlu: liigliw lys.
the gospel on
a guide post there to lead
Write with plain and simple letups.
Though
G>
the footsman run, -nay read
where sick,distressc<l,ulere tlying;

whete wealth and poMip display;
the woiinded lying,dying;
Go
Go
Where
before the close of day!

the dark deep (cean;
lle
Go upon
Where
Tell
sailors
tempest tossed
how
Christ in deep devotion,

to save the world,
t
Came
was
lost!
(SO;
MJ^m^Î^]^S'5^:
G'j
acre
booms
the deadly t^nnon,

(J|oth
Wiiere the musketry
roar;
Where the wounded
soldiers' lying,
Fainting on the fields of gore!
Go
within the walls of prispn,

the criminals are
|eati
Where
Go before the sun Go before their
hath riên.
hopes
affs fled
Go until your steps shall falter, Go and seek the lost to save
Till the
shroud your mission

're laid
alter.
And you
into the grave!
(Si;
|\liDiii^liKji
m^h^.
WORK.
W >!k,ye
while the daylight shiiieih;

all
Wurk,with
thy might and skill;
Work, and
ne'er thy task declineth;

'tis
Work, lor
our M.ister's
will!
Work, for He
haili set thy
duty;
sliirk:
Light the task, how canst thou
Work, to seek swe^t heavenly
bcvuiiy
!
Ere night cometh,man can't work
(S2;
ÛIS
1 tilN 1
&.
-,
Invocation.
Page, 5
.
New
Our
Jerusalem
girls.
.
6
8. 9-
birtlid.iy tribute.
...
. .
Beyond the
river.
flay;.
'int-.
.
11
13-
Oiir rational
My
count ly li Emancipali'MJ
.
.
15-
17.
. .
.
The
cirt-ary d..y.
ic^.
My
Quern.
21.
23. 25.
26.
27.
The cliiniiug bells. The chain of bondage.

Lead me. The buti.M-flv The one I kn-jw The same old sun The summer nigiit.
. ,
.
....
.
29. 30-
am
glad.
....
.
33-
The oak tree. The foresight.
3536.
-
...
38.
CONTENTS.
The shining star. The feitsi. The song bird.
....
.
42.
44. 45.
,
.
Scenes ot life. Farewell to summer. The traveler's dream.

Calling Fleeting linu.
47
.
...
.
49. 51.
Death
(1
Al>sal<)m.
On
Be The temp' St. The lock of hair.

.
the souihern side. ready.

.
... ...
.
5456. 57. 60.

.
.
.
.
.... ...
.
.
62. 63.
67
68. 69. -71.
Friendship's parting.
The new
Goliatii
tar.
and David.
ol life.
The journey
.
!
.
Go
ve unto evviy nation
Work!
...
.
.80
78.
82. 66.
Life's procession.
COPYRIGHTED, 1899. B:Y
AARON
THOMPSON.
HI?
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Increasing love and gratitude,

This dark and stormy land!

didst h^ar our father's ciy.

dried the tear drops frou) llnir eye,

Let not our hearts with trouble wake.

us trust Jehovah's pojver.

daybreak fades the night.

stately gates, ire set witli pearls

yet the half's not told.

and precious sUjuc?

t'lat ciiy fair;

Sweet music from

thai heavenly clime,

Swells out npi>n the

Within those wallb so beaulitul.

and comfort they enjoy,

mortal tongi;c Can

witliin those walls that shine,

Splendor and glory's

In Ilim for nations died.

those gates of pearl and gold.

Forever stand ajar;

strangers p issing by.

Where nothing can

tlirone so pure ancj blest,

crisp curly leeks, iti beauty Hrraynl.

smiles glow like sun-beams;

Her eyes spark Her

teeth shine like pearls.her lauglitf r the while.

Re-echoes with music. like waves on the Xilr;

steps are so gentle, kiudhearied

The Ethiope maid, is

paints and no powder, bedecks her sweet face;

nature, the rarest of grace.

and pomatums, ne'er touches her hair;

Those curled raven

Before ev'ry nation, exultant we'll sing;

Flowers blooming 'neath her feet;

She have reached each year a milestone,

on, old time hath led her.

the night, and through the day.

In her childhood's joys,and sorrows.

the milestones pass awav.

each one her

journey briefly toH

Of her infancy and

her cup with

from year to year.

been blessed, with friends

a loving father's care.

have loved so dear since birth

her pains and sorrows,

She have reached the twentieth milestone,

She hath grown

we've met to pay her homage,

Friends and kindreds,