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Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

Prayer moves the arm Which moves the world, And brings salvation down.

Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.

Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.

Hymns should have unity,graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts,a conscious progress,a sense of completeness..and be easily understood.

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

Baptize the nations! far and nigh,The triumphs of the cross recordThe name of Jesus glorify,Till every people call Him Lord.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

Gashed with honourable scars,Low in Glory's lap they lie;Though they fell, they fell like stars,Streaming splendour through the sky.

Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

'Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

Time is eternity begun.