IV. MISCELLANEOUS. WISDOM. How happy is the child who hears Wisdom has treasures greater far She guides the young with innocence According as her labors rise, So her rewards increase; Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. 184 IMMORTAL BEAUTY. THE HOLY CHILD. By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows! How sweet the breath, beneath the hill, Lo, such the child whose early feet O Thou, who giv'st us life and breath, In childhood, manhood, age, and death, IMMORTAL BEAUTY. SWEET day! so cool, so calm, so bright, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, Sweet rose in air whose odors wave, And thou, alas! must die. HEBER. 井 SUNDAY EVENING. Sweet Spring! of days and roses made, Whose charms for beauty vie, Only a sweet and holy soul While flowers decay, and seasons roll, This lives, and cannot die. SUNDAY EVENING. 185 GEORGE HERBERT. 'T WAS night, and o'er the desert moor And round our cheerful wood-fire drew: First Charley, in his little chair, With sober face, his tale began, And how the lions were afraid Then Henry spoke of Israel's guide, The cloud by day, the fire by night, 186 SUNDAY EVENING. And said, whatever might betide, And little Freddy told of three Who once a fiery furnace trod, And how, to save them from the flame, Then little Susan told of One Who kindly all our sorrows bore The tale was told, a crystal tear Rose brightly to each sparkling eye, And then in accents soft and clear Our evening hymn again rolled high; Joined in the strains of solemn joy. Then grandpa prayed, — that dear old man, With wrinkled brow and hoary hair, While all the little children ran To kneel around his elbow-chair. THE DELUGE. And thus the Sunday evening passed, 187 CHOICE POEMS. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. EXODUS, CHAP. XX. 1. THOU shalt have no more gods but me; 2. Before no idol bow thy knee. 3. Take not the name of God in vain, 4. Nor dare the Sabbath day profane. 5. Give both thy parents honor due: 6. Take heed that thou no murder do. 7. Abstain from words and deeds unclean, 8. Nor steal though thou art poor and mean, 9. Nor make a wilful lie, nor love it. 10. What is thy neighbor's dare not covet. THE DELUGE. A RAIN once fell upon the earth And hid the flowers, the grass, the trees, The deep waves covered all the land, |