AN INTROIT TO BE SUNG BETWEEN THE LITANY AND COMMUNION SERVICE. Он most merciful! Oh most bountiful! God the Father Almighty! By the Redeemer's Sweet intercession Hear us, help us when we cry! BEFORE THE SACRAMENT. BREAD of the world, in Wine of the soul, in mercy broken! mercy shed! By whom the words of life were spoken, And in whose death our sins are dead! Look on the heart by sorrow broken, That by thy grace our souls are fed! AT A FUNERAL. BENEATH our feet and o'er our head Is equal warning given ; Beneath us lie the countless dead, Above us is the heaven! Their names are graven on the stone, And ere another day is done, Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower; Each season has its own disease, Its peril every hour! Our eyes have seen the rosy light Of youth's soft cheek decay, And Fate descend in sudden night On manhood's middle day. Our eyes have seen the steps of age Turn, mortal, turn! thy danger know; The earth rings hollow from below, Turn, Christian, turn! thy soul apply To truths divinely given; The bones that underneath thee lie Shall live for hell or heaven! STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. THOU art gone to the grave! but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb: Thy Saviour has pass'd through its portal before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom! Thou art gone to the grave! we no longer behold Nor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side; But the wide arms of Mercy are spread to enfold thee, And sinners may die, for the SINLESS has died! |