96 BE DOVE-LIKE. Nothing selfish or unkind Can before my Father come; I must have His children's mind, No more angry thoughts or rude We shall seek each other's good, When these evil thoughts I feel- Lord, thy tender love reveal; 98 CONTENTMENT. When He looks down from heaven And sees such things as these, That gracious Lord to please? My home, with all its pleasures, The mercies round about me, More than my tongue can tell,— All these He freely gives me, And watches round my head; How wonderful His goodness, I long, to such a Father, A grateful child to prove. I long to praise Him daily, With heart, and looks, and voice With angels may rejoice. F. P. (Written after hearing one of Mr. J. B. Gough's Orations.) BEAUTIFUL water! sparkling and bright, 160 WATER, BRIGHT WATER! Always so beautiful, seeming so brave, Beautiful always, in soft sun-lit showers, Or sparkling like diamonds in jessamine bowers, Always so beautiful! filling the air With soft feathery flakes so pure and so fair, Beautiful, beautiful, always so fair; In soft southern climes, or the keen northern air, Beautiful either on Afric's parch'd sands, [grand, Or bound in the iceberg of far distant lands, For ever I'll love thee, so bright, pure and free; H. R. |