How calmly sinks the parting sun!
Yet Twilight lingers still,
And beautiful as dreams of Heaven,
It slumbers on the hill;
Earth sleeps, with all her glorious things, Beneath the Holy Spirit's wings, And, rendering back the hues above, Seems…
On! to the battle, on!
Let none to linger dare;
Who'd taste the joys of victory soon
Must in the conflict share.
On! to the battle, on!
The ranks for all are free;
Man in his morn, his eve, his noon,
And woman, there should be.
On! to the…
Types of eternal rest - fair buds of bliss,In heavenly flowers unfolding week by week -The next world's gladness, imaged forth in this -Days of whose worth the Christian's heart canspeak!Eternity of time - the steps by whichWe climb to future ages -…
They are all gone into a world of light,And I alone sit lingering here;Their very memory is fair and bright,And my sad thoughts doth clear.It glows and glitters in my cloudy breath,Like stars upon some gloomy grove;Or those faint beams in which the…
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls
The burial-ground, "God's Acre!" It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls,
And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.
"God's-Acre!" Yes; that blessed name imparts
Comfort to those,…
Around thee shall the prairie roll its green
And flowery billows far off in the sun,
And a deep murmur rise from that wide scene,
The solemn and low-chanted hymn of one
Whose spirit, like the sunshine beaming bright,
Poured for the mellow light…
Like to the falling of a star;Or as the flights of eagles are;Or like the fresh Spring's gaudy hue;Or silver drops of morning dew;Or like the wind that chafes the flood;Or bubbles which on water stood;Even such is man, whose borrowed lightIs straight…
ONWARD! our noble champion!
Though clouds above thee lower,
Though friend and foe alike combine -
Thou wilt not dread their power.
Onward! for faint hearts look to thee
For courage 'mid the storm'
And many a fervent prayer goes up
To shield…
How beautiful, in morning's hour,
The blade of emerald green,
Whereupon the drops of pearly dew
In silver radiance gleam!
It seems as if it shadowed forth
The Christian's holy love:
For though of earth, it ever looks
Unto the sky above.
But…
