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The Judgment! the Judgment the thrones are

all set :

[met! Where the Lamb, and the white-vested elders are All flesh is at once in the sight of the Lord, And the doom of eternity hangs on his word.

Oh Mercy! Oh Mercy! look down from above, Creator! on us, thy sad children, with love! When beneath to their darkness the wicked are

driven,

May our sanctified souls find a mansion in heaven.

THE BIBLE.

Sir W. Scott.

WITHIN this awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries;

Happiest they of human race
To whom their God has given grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray;
To lift the latch, to force the way;
And better had they ne'er been born,
Than read to doubt, or read to scorn.

THE BIBLE.

Pollok.

THIS book, this holy book, on every line
Mark'd with the seal of high divinity,
On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love
Divine, and with the eternal heraldry
And signature of God Almighty stamp'd,
From first to last, this ray of sacred light,
This lamp from off the everlasting throne,
Mercy brought down, and in the night of Time,
Stands, casting on the dark her gracious bow
And evermore beseeching men with tears
And earnest sighs, to read, believe, and live.

TRUE GREATNESS.

Hetherington.

"Tis not in all the splendours bright

That wealth can o'er her votaries fling,

It is not in the round of might

That binds the forehead of a king ;

"Tis in the heart, with feeling fraught,

'Tis in the head, with wisdom crown'd, "Tis in the soul, sublime in thought,

That man's true dignity is found.

There is a lofty, thrilling joy,

The bounded power of speech it spurns,Which lightens in the raptured eye,

And in the swelling bosom burns;

"Tis that ineffable delight,

When, like the glorious Lord of Day,

The soul, exulting in its might,

Speeds through the realms of thought away;

When soaring, limitless, afar,

Wide through the universe it strays,

Till not the feeblest twinkling star

On Night's swart brow escapes its gaze When that wild world, the human heart, Before its glance unveil'd appears,

And at its potent call upstart

Joys, sorrows, passions, hopes, and fears!

When its high magic blends in one

The soul of millions-wields their mightHurls tyrant Wrong from his red throneUpholds the rule of truth and right—

O'er life's calm vale sheds softly forth

Peace, virtue, charity, and love, Till mortal lips partake on earth

The fruits divine of heaven above!

But greater far the might that wakes

Those prostrate powers which sin o'erthrew, When off the soul its thraldom shakes,

Created in the Lord anew!

And higher far its strong wing soars,
In loftier and sublimer flight,

When in rapt trances it adores
The very God of life and light!

Bend thy haught brow, O lordly Pride!
While moves the lowly Christian past;

Thy well-won laurel wreath aside,

Thou man of many talents, cast!
Great monarch! lay thy sceptre down,
A greater than thyself is there,
The heir of an immortal crown,-

The heir of God, with Christ joint heir!

To meet life's ills with soul serene,
Treading the path our Saviour trod;
To live, as seeing things unseen,

To walk and commune with our God;

This is True Greatness! Worth divine!
Given by the Spirit and the Word
To man! Thus grows that living shrine,
Form'd, hallow'd, dwelt in, by THE LORD!

BEAUTIES OF CREATION.

Heber.

I PRAISED the Earth, in beauty seen
With garlands gay of various green :
I praised the Sea, whose ample field
Shone glorious as a silver shield;
And Earth and Ocean seem'd to say,
Our beauties are but for to-day."

I praised the Sun, whose chariot roll'd
On wheels of amber and of gold;

I praised the Moon, whose softer eye
Gleam'd sweetly through the summer sky;
And Moon and Sun in answer said,

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Our days of light are numbered."

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