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      HYMN . Father and Friend ! Thy light , Thy lo \ e Beaming * thro' all Thy works we see 5 Thy glory gilds the heav ' ns above , And all the earth is full of Thee . Thy voice we hear- —Thy presence feel , Whilst Thou , too pure for mortal sight , InvolvM in clouds—invisible , Reignest , the Lord of life and light . We know not in what hallow'd part Of the wide heav ' ns Thy throne may be ;

      But this we know , that wbere Thou art , Strength , wisdom , goodness dwell with Thee . And thro * the various maze of time , And thro' th'infinity of space , We follow Thy career sublime , And all Thy wondrous footsteps trace . Thy children shall not faint nor fear , Sustain ed by this delightful thought , Siace Thou , their God , art every where , They cannot be where Thou art not A . . mm

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      ^^^ HYMN . If all our hopes * and all our fears Were prison ed in life ' s little hound 3 If—travellers thro'this vale of tears We saw no better world beyond—O what should check the rising * sigh ? What earthly thing * could pleasure give ? O who would venture then to die ? O who could then endure to live ? Were life a dark and desert moor , Where clouds and rnists eternal spread Their gloomy veil behind , before , And tempests thunder overhead : Where not a sunbeam breathes the gloom , And not a flow e ret smiles beneath : Who could exist in such a tomb ? Who dwell in darkness and in death ? Yet such were life without the ray From our divine religion giv'n ; 'Tis this that makes our darkness day ! 'Tis this that makes our earth a heav ' n ! Bright is the golden sun above , And beautiful the flow ' is that bloom ; And . all is joy- ' —and all is love , — Reflected from a world to come . A . ——

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      mmmSUMmmm —* PRAISE TO GOD . Great is our God , whose voice of pow ' r > divine x The worlds created , and bade light to shine . vm

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      WOMAN . [ From Dramatic Scenes and other Poems , by Barry Cornwall . 12 mo . 1819 . ] Gone from her cheek is the summer bloom , And her lip has lost all its faint perfume ; And the g-loss has dropped from her golden hair , And her cheek is pale , but no longer fair . And the / spirit that sate on her soft blue eye > Is struck with cold mortality ; And the smile that played round her lip has fled , And every charm has now left the dead .

      Like slaves they obeyed lier in height of pow ' r , But left her all in her wintry hour ; And- the crowds that svirore for her love to die , Shrunk from the tone of her last faint sigh . x And this is jnan * s fidelity ! 'Tis woman alone , with a purer heart , Can see all these Idols of life depart , And love the more ; and smile and bless Man in his uttermost wretchedness .

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      All nature * s tribes behold the kindled * rays , . Joyful with life , and active to his praise . Shall man forbear , blest with his kind directions , To sing the glory of his bright perfections f Wise is oar God , who form'd the human mind , Ivi one vast scheme creation ' s laws combinM ;

      Governs all nations with unerring skill * And guides the universe to work his will . His counsels deep , and high beyond all vision , And fix'd for ever his supreme decision . Good is our God , whose plenteous bounty pours Blessings in sun-beams , dews , and fruitful show ' rs ; Whose grace provides for men the living bread And lively hope of rising from the dead . Jesus from him proclaims a great salvation For penitents of ev'ry tongue and nation * R . F . Kidderminster .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 577, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/53/