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ACQUITTAL OF THE BISHOPS.

A VOICE, from long-expecting thousands sent,

Swerves not-diverted by a casual law. Had mortal action e'er a nobler scope? The Hero comes to liberate, not defy: And while he marches on with steadfa hope,

Conqueror beloved! expected anxiously! The vacillating Bondman of the Pope Shrinks from the verdict of his steadfast eye.

X.

OBLIGATIONS OF CIVIL TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

UNGRATEFUL Country, if thou e'er forget The sons who for thy civil rights have

bled!

How, like a Roman, Sidney bowed h

head,

And Russell's milder blood the scaffold

wet;

But these had fallen for profitless regret Shatters the air, and troubles tower and Had not thy holy Church her champs

spire;

For Justice hath absolved the innocent,
And Tyranny is balked of her desire:
Up, down, the busy Thames-rapid as

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And claims from other worlds inspirited The star of Liberty to rise. Nor yet (Grave this within thy heart!) if spirit

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Lavished on Him-that England may rebel

And hallowed ground in which their fathers lay;

Against her ancient virtue. HIGH and Then to the new-found World explored Low,

Watchwords of Party, on all tongues are rife;

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their way,

5 That so a Church, unforced, uncalled to brook

As if a Church, though sprung from Ritual restraints, within some sheltering

heaven, must owe

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o have we hurried on with troubled But not to them had Providence forepleasure:

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SPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA.

1. THE PILGRIM FATHERS. Composed 1842.-Published: vol. of 1842.] WELL worthy to be magnified are they Who, with sad hearts, of friends and country took

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Their spirit, in your Children, thus approve.

Transcendent over time, unbound by place,

A last farewell, their loved abodes forsook, Concord and Charity in circles move.

XV.

III. CONCLUDED.-AMERICAN EPISCO

PACY.

[Composed 1842.-Published: vol. of 1842.]

PATRIOTS informed with Apostolic light Were they who, when their Country had been freed,

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As star that shines dependent upon star Bowing with reverence to the ancient Is to the sky while we look up in love;

creed,

Fixed on the frame of England's Church their sight,

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And strove in filial love to reunite
What force had severed. Thence they
fetched the seed

Of Christian unity, and won a meed

As to the deep fair ships which though they move

Seem fixed, to eyes that watch them from afar;

As to the sandy desert fountains are, With palm-groves shaded at wide inter vals,

Of praise from Heaven. To Thee, O Whose fruit around the sun-burnt Native

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Whether they would restore or build-to Each linked to each for kindred services: Her Spires, her Steeple-towers with glittering vanes

Thee,

As one who rightly taught how zeal should burn,

As one who drew from out Faith's holiest

urn

The purest stream of patient Energy.

XVI.

[Composed ?.-Published 1845.]

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Far-kenned, her Chapels lurking among

trees,

Where a few villagers on bended knees
Find solace which a busy world disdains.

XVIII.

PASTORAL CHARACTER.

BISHOPS and Priests, blessed are ye, if A GENIAL hearth, a hospitable board,

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Gentleness in his heart-can earth affer! Such genuine state, pre-eminence so free, As when, arrayed in Christ's authority, He from the pulpit lifts his awful hand: Conjures, implores, and labours all he ca Bishops and Priests, think what a gulf For re-subjecting to divine command The stubborn spirit of rebellious man?

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XXIII.

Where dwells a Sister-child? And was

power given

CONFIRMATION.

[Composed ?.-Published 1827.]

Part of her lost One's glory back to trace Even to this Rite? For thus She knelt, and, ere

THE Young-ones gathered in from hill The summer-leaf had faded, passed w

and dale,

With holiday delight on every brow:

"Tis past away; far other thoughts pre

vail;

For they are taking the baptismal Vow Upon their conscious selves; their own lips speak

Heaven.

XXV.
SACRAMENT.

[Composed ?.-Published 1827.]

5 By chain yet stronger must the Soul be tied:

The solemn promise. Strongest sinews fail,

One duty more, last stage of this ascent,

And many a blooming, many a lovely, Brings to thy food, mysterious Sact

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The Offspring, haply at the Parent's side
But not till They, with all that do abide
In Heaven, have lifted up their hearts t
laud

And magnify the glorious name of God,
Fountain of Grace, whose Son for since
died.

Ye, who have duly weighed the summos pause

No longer: ye, whom to the saving rite

That ere the Sun goes down their child- The Altar calls; come early under la

hood sets.

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Tell what rushed in, from what she was relieved

Then, when her Child the hallowing touch received,

And such vibration through the Mother went

That can secure for you a path of light Through gloomiest shade; put on dread its weight)

Armour divine, and conquer in yu cause!

XXVI.

THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY.

[Composed 1842.-Published 1845.]

THE Vested Priest before the A stands;

Approach, come gladly, ye prepared. 1 sight

Of God and chosen friends, your troth plight

With the symbolic ring, and wile hands

Solemnly joined. Now sanctify the bank That tears burst forth amain. Did gleams O Father!-to the Espoused thy bless appear?

Opened a vision of that blissful place

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give,

That mutually assisted they may live

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