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BENJAMIN COPELAND - - [Illustration: colophon] - - NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS - CINCINNATI: CURTS & JENNINGS - - Copyright by - EATON & MAINS, - 1896. - - EATON & MAINS PRESS, - 150 Fifth Avenue, New York. - - - - - POEMS: - - PASTORAL AND PSALM. - - - - - THE FIRST ROBIN. - - - Herald of the happy year, - Robin redbreast, art thou here? - Welcome to thy destined goal; - Welcome, songster of the soul! - - Age and Childhood find in thee - Kindred bond of sympathy; - Hope and Memory are one - In thy song’s sweet unison. - - Common freehold all hearts claim - In thy nature’s artless aim; - Best of priests and poets, thou, - Singing on the leafless bough. - - Mead and mountain, wood and wold, - Wait the rapture manifold, - Which shall prove thee saint and seer, - Dearest minstrel of the year! - - Every note like April rain-- - Thou transmutest, in thy strain, - With the season’s subtle power, - Winter’s dearth to summer’s dower. - - Glows the mold with vernal fire - Kindled by thy love’s desire; - Nature wakens, at thy call, - To her Easter festival. - - Mateless messenger divine! - Peerless privilege is thine: - Thou interpretest to Faith - The deep mystery of death. - - - - - THE MEADOW AIR IS SWEET. - - - The meadow air is sweet,-- - The cowslip’s cup of gold - Is full of fresh and fragrant dew,-- - More full than it can hold. - - The meadow air is sweet,-- - The blackbird’s mellow note, - Like water in a little brook, - Flows gurgling from his throat. - - The meadow air is sweet,-- - The stream that cheers the lea - Will feel the willow’s tender kiss, - E’en to the distant sea. - - The meadow air is sweet,-- - Hark! from the old elm tree-- - Ah! only lovers understand - The oriole’s ecstasy. - - The meadow air is sweet,-- - The clover, handsome--white, - With dainty odors woos the bee, - And fills her with delight. - - The meadow air is sweet,-- - The bobolink is there! - When he is mute a faery flute - Seems echoing in the air. - - The meadow air is sweet,-- - The daisy in the grass - Looks up to see the clouds, and feel - Their shadow as they pass. - - The meadow air is sweet,-- - The swallow flashes by, - Too merry for a moment’s rest - Between the earth and sky. - - The meadow air is sweet,-- - The day wanes in the west, - And twilight’s soothing shadows lull - The weary world to rest. - - - - - A CONTRAST. - - - In the green silence of this sylvan shore - How servile seems the city’s ceaseless roar! - How vain the restless rivalry for pelf! - How low the aim that centers all in self! - - The penury of Pride--the sordid care - Of souls despoiled of poetry and prayer-- - Seems in these happy shades to be - The comedy of misery. - - - - - THE GOAL. - - - Sweet scents, sweet sounds, sweet scenes! - With all that intervenes - In sweeter solemn silences profound,-- - Whereinto overflows, - In forest, river, rose, - Passionless being, beauty without bound. - - How deep the mind’s repose! - The vagrant sea breeze blows - With kindred pulses through the fragrant shade; - And sod and soul are blent - In blest enfranchisement,-- - Prefiguring the end for all things made. - - For life and love, supreme - Beyond Isaiah’s dream, - Shall bear all being to its blissful goal; - The wondrous word is true: - “Lo! I make all things new;”-- - _The universe is ransomed with the soul_. - - - - - UNANSWERED. - - - Whither away, ye argosies of Heaven, - In solemn state advancing from afar? - What mission marshals you? What chivalrous emprise - Darkens the glory of the sapphire skies? - Say, was your empire’s ancient quiet riven - With rumor ominous of distant wrong and war? - Or speed ye forth with snowy sails unfurled, - And radiant pennons shimmering in the haze, - To bring with proper pomp, to his empyreal throne, - Your monarch with his bride?--_he loveth her alone_,-- - Dear daughter of the Sun, the peerless virgin world, - Long cloistered in his bosom’s brightest rays. - - * * * * * - - No answer but a deeper shadow cast,-- - And lo! the splendid mystery has passed. - - - - - EASTER ANTICIPATED. - - - Hark! ’tis the Robin, poet-priest, - Absolves rude Winter’s wrong: - The heart of Nature is released, - And soareth out in song. - - - - - UNDER THE MOON. - - - Beautiful Luna, bride of the night! - Sweet is the sheen of thy soft silver light; - On castle and cottage in splendor it streams, - Blessing the earth with its bountiful beams. - - Thou cheerest the vigils of shepherd and seer; - To sailor and lover alike thou art dear; - Forever and ever thy kingdom shall be:-- - The heart owns thy sway like the tides of the sea. - - - - - HEART’S-EASE. - - - The day will not give place to night,-- - The darkness pierces like the light; - My care prolongs the noontide glare, - And makes a desert everywhere. - O! what will ease a burning brain, - And the weariness that is worse than pain? - - * * * * * - - Think of twilight and the dew,-- - The stars serenely shining through - The tranquil depths of peaceful blue; - Muse on the moon’s majestic grace; - How worshipful her radiant face - In midnight’s solemn loneliness! - Nature is silent unto God-- - His comforts are exceeding broad. - - * * * * * - - Receive the word his works declare: - “The peace of God is everywhere.” - Too weak for praise, too faint for prayer, - The benediction of the air - Be thine whose lot it is to share - Life’s ceaseless, slow-corroding care. - Be still, and breathe the balm divine, - Arcturus’ joy, Orion’s wine; - So shalt thou know the blessed law - Whence stars their strength and beauty draw, - Inheriting their influence - In quietness and confidence, - And ever, cheerfully as they, - Press onward in thy heavenward way. - - - - - THE REWARD. - - - From green to gold - The year grows old, - With beautiful increase; - The seasons wane - To ripened grain - And Nature’s deepest peace. - - The same sure plan - Is thine, O man! - Alike for sod and soul, - The law of love-- - Enthroned above-- - That guides thee to thy goal. - - _Have faith in God_;-- - Who gives the clod - Its meed of fruit or flower. - Shall crown thy cares, - Thy tears, thy prayers, - With an immortal dower. - - - - - STRUGGLE AND REST. - - - My life was overcast with care, - And doubt pursued me everywhere; - Still farther into gloom unknown - I wandered desolately lone, - Till, in the depths of self-despair, - The darkness deepened into prayer; - And lo! when hope was almost gone, - The midnight brightened into dawn. - - * * * * * - - Around my heart was drawn the coil - Of cheerless, unrelenting toil; - Nor any respite could I find, - Nor any comfort for the mind, - When His dear cross appeared to me, - Whose service is true liberty;-- - The thought of Jesus brought me rest, - And meekness made my burden blest. - - - - - COMPENSATION. - - - Deep calleth unto deep;--the heart - That dwelleth from the world apart - Is sometimes doubly sad; - But lo! the light that overflows! - The desert blossoms like the rose,-- - The wilderness is glad! - - The faith serene, the lofty cheer, - The love triumphant over fear,-- - A paradise below! - Such is the treasure each may find, - (The rapture of a quiet mind,) - And such, in part, bestow. - - - - - BETRAYED. - - - Deceived, defloured, despoiled! - O drooping lily, late with light aglow! - Around thy root is coiled - The hidden horror of a nameless woe. - - Deceived, defiled, despoiled! - Is there no healing for a broken heart? - O God! hadst thou but foiled - The fatal spell of the betrayer’s art. - - Deceived, despised, despoiled! - The blight has fallen on thy peerless bloom; - To bless thy bridal eager ages toiled;-- - A moment’s glamour leaves thee endless gloom. - - - - - MIDNIGHT AND MORNING. - - - Under her heart her sorrow, - Under her heart her shame,-- - And darker than death the morrow - With the brand of the whole world’s blame. - - * * * * * - - Under her heart her glory,-- - O rapture that knows no alloy! - Blest Mary! thy travail’s sweet story - Shall waken the whole world’s joy. - - - - - OTHER SHEEP. - - - Pagan, Papist, Protestant! - What is that to thee or me? - Make not Heaven’s mercy scant - With thy pampered bigotry. - - Who made thee the judge to be - Of thy brother’s destiny? - Deem not that thy shibboleth - Holds the keys of life and death. - - Ah, that secret, sullen sign! - Call it not decree divine; - For a letter, more, or less, - Measures not God’s tenderness. - - “Other sheep I have,” said One - Who was more than Mary’s son; - Eyes as blind as thine shall see - His amazing charity. - - When it claims the judgment throne, - What is creed but craft and cant? - God will surely know his own-- - Pagan, Papist, Protestant. - - - - - NIAGARA. - - - Majestic symbol of eternal power! - Dread oracle of eons all unknown! - Before thy presence Pomp and Passion cower,-- - All men are equal at thy awful throne. - - Abashed, the eager babble of the mart, - To silence shamed, the vulgar greed for gain; - No more ambition goads the weary heart, - And Toil forgets its unrequited pain. - - Stern type of Truth’s inexorable law! - No room remains for envy or for pride; - Here prince and pauper stand in common awe, - Swayed by the spell of thy resistless tide. - - A rushing, seething Sinai,--thou dost pour - On sluggish consciences the solemn sense - Of justice infinite: thy thunder’s roar - Declares to Wrong relentless recompense. - - Against our arrogance thy strength doth plead; - Deep unto deep imperiously calls; - Impartial annalist! the nations read - Their transient glory on thy ageless walls. - - Yet dost thou deign to dower the moment’s need,-- - Our dreams exceeding by thy bounteous sway; - With power unrivaled thy proud flood shall speed - The New World’s progress toward Time’s perfect day. - - O mighty monitor! O seer sublime! - The soul’s surpassing grandeur thou dost show; - The fountains of thy immemorial prime - Through man’s immortal being freely flow. - - - - - LET IN THE LIGHT! - - - Let in the light! - The sky is bright, - The air is flowing free; - The mountains glow, - The vale, below, - Is holding jubilee. - - Let in the light!-- - Sad oversight - To miss so sweet a morn; - The vision flies, - Awake! arise! - Each dawn is life reborn. - - Let in the light! - O! read aright - The day’s Apocalypse; - Its hours enfold - The age of gold, - And all thy dreams eclipse. - - Let in the light! - ’Twill soon be night; - Prize every moment given; - With all thy might - Serve thou the right, - And leave the rest to Heaven. - - - - - THE LAW OF LOVE. - - - O, the sky is blue above me, - And the earth beneath is green, - And softly bright the flowing light - Floods the boundless space between. - - But what if the day should darken, - And death’s dread shadows fall? - I need not fear; with heaven so near, - Why should the night appall? - - ’Tis but the peaceful portal - Unto a morn immortal; - For the light that once gladdened the garden’s deep gloom - At last shall transfigure all blight into bloom. - - For over and under the soul’s sore strife - Is the blessed law of an endless life; - From the sod to the stars, and the stars to the sod, - Sways the everlasting love of God. - - - - - A PROPHECY. - - - O happy, happy, happy boy! - Let me tell you all your joy; - Let me whisper in your ear - All the secret of the seer. - Let me tell your fortune fair - To the wide and wandering air; - Let me share my rapture rare - With the social, songful air,-- - With the gentle, genial air, - Kind to laughter and to prayer. - - * * * * * - - Whatsoe’er the world may say, - You shall have the right of way: - You shall laugh, and you shall play, - And, in merry roundelay, - Dance with jolly faun and fay; - You shall have the wealth of May - For your dowry every day. - - * * * * * - - Nature, from her frailest spar - To her oldest, utmost star, - All her miracles shall bring - For your blissful wondering;-- - You shall be her priest and king. - Knowing what was never known, - Reaping what was never sown, - You shall feel the world your own, - On your universal throne. - And, in holy place apart, - (Blessed are the pure in heart!) - In a halo of delight, - Jubilant with glorious might, - You shall walk with God in white. - - * * * * * - - This is all was shown to me - Of the child’s futurity; - What the youth and man will be-- - Sealed is in mystery. - Scarcely can his angel see, - Face to face with Deity, - Farther into certainty. - _God exceed the prophecy!_ - God be better to the boy - Than the parent’s dream of joy. - - - - - LITTLE RUTH. - - - I cannot feel that she is gone - So far, so far away; - Her little heart close to my own - Is beating day by day. - - Ah! tender are these human ties; - May heaven at last reveal - Why on her eyes a slumber lies - E’en tears cannot unseal. - - A look this darkness would displace - With a divine delight; - The soul’s rare grace in her fair face. - It was a blessed sight! - - Her hair a happy halo wore - That lit the hearth and hall; - Alas! no more my study door - Heeds her confiding call. - - Dear lips! where mirth and music wrote - The lore in Eden sung; - Seemed every note from her sweet throat - By elf or angel strung. - - The robin, hark! is here again, - To woo the wondrous child; - But all in vain his ardent strain,-- - Death may not be beguiled. - - Sleep, Baby, sleep; we will not weep, - Nor moan or murmur make; - But O! how deep the dreamless sleep! - Would God she might awake. - - Asleep? awake! the Shepherd takes - His little lamb above; - And where she wakes the morning breaks - In everlasting love. - - * * * * * - - But I cannot feel that she is gone - So far, so far away; - For her little heart close to my own - Keeps beating day by day. - - - - - WHERE THERE IS NO MORE PAIN. - - - The sharpest pang, the tenderest tear, - Not yet are known to thee, - Unless thy heart has learned how dear - A little grave can be. - - A little grave--but O, how wide - The room it left for grief! - A grief which, like the ebbing tide, - Returns without relief. - - Dear child! by death made doubly dear, - God grant it may not be - That thou in heaven should’st ever hear - How much we mourn for thee. - - One after one the seasons wane,-- - Our loss, it grows not less; - Time’s balm is vain to heal the pain - Of such a loneliness. - - O little grave, that darkened so - The path by Sorrow trod, - Sometimes the sunset’s golden glow - Rests on thy daisied sod;-- - - And then we feel that God is good, - And we take heart again, - Assured ’twill all be understood - Where there is no more pain. - - Where there is no more pain--’tis there, - ’Tis there we long to be; - O Thou, who didst our sorrows bear, - Bring us to dwell with thee! - - Where there is no more pain--how blest - Love’s kingdom, fadeless, fair! - That blissful rest naught shall molest,-- - _Death cannot enter there_. - - - - - AMONG THE LILIES. - - - Among the lilies she lies asleep, - Our Easter lily, so fair and sweet,-- - A flower too fair and frail to keep - Where love with sorrow and pain must meet. - - Among the lilies in Paradise - (O sweeter than Eden, God’s garden above!) - Stands a little child,--and the same dear eyes - Look up into ours with immortal love. - - Among the lilies! Lord, grant that we - With the pure in heart thy face may see, - And find with our loved and our lost a home - Where pain and sorrow can never come. - - - - - FORGOTTEN? - - - By ties as tender as our tears - Our hearts still hold to thee;-- - Dear child! death cannot blight the years - Of immortality. - - - - - “IN THE BEGINNING, GOD.” - - * * * * * - - “In Him we live, and move, and have our being.” - - * * * * * - - OUR FATHER. - - - - - ADORATION. - - - Sole Source of being, blessed God! - Of love the Fountain and the Sea, - Thy glorious name alone we laud,-- - Our springs, O Lord, are all in thee. - - In all our paths thy truth we trace,-- - Thy goodness, infinite, unknown; - Our everlasting dwelling place, - In thee we live, in thee alone. - - To children’s children still endure - Thy ceaseless care, thy changeless love; - Thy covenanted mercies, sure, - Shall never, nevermore remove. - - O happiness without alloy! - We soon with all thy saints shall come, - With songs and everlasting joy, - To Zion, our eternal home. - - O holy, holy, holy Lord! - To thee be endless glory given; - O be thy name by all adored, - For evermore, in earth and heaven. - - - - - CONFIDING IN GOD. - - - From thy commandments, Lord, - O let me never stray; - According to thy word - Do thou direct my way. - - Be every moment near,-- - Alone I dare not go,-- - And with thy presence cheer - My pilgrimage below. - - Forever in thy sight, - No harm can happen me; - The darkness and the light - Are both alike to thee. - - E’en death shall serve thy will,-- - Controlled by thy command; - No change can work me ill,-- - “My times are in thy hand.” - - In this I sweetly rest,-- - Instructed from above,-- - _Whatever is, is best_; - For thou, O Lord, art love. - - - - - PROVIDENCE. - - - O God, our shield! our strong defense, - Sure staff of souls distress’d, - Beneath thy watchful providence, - Thy saints securely rest. - - No want have they who seek thy face; - No good wilt thou withhold - From them that walk in righteousness, - The flock of thine own fold. - - From strength to strength thy servants go, - Delighting in thy will; - Triumphant over every foe, - They stand on Zion’s hill. - - Forever blessèd be thy name,-- - And let the whole earth be - The temple of thy glorious fame, - And thy salvation see. - - - - - ANNIVERSARY PRAISE. - - - O sovereign Love, eternal Power! - Whose grace hath brought us to this hour, - Thy covenanted mercies, sure, - To children’s children still endure. - - Our fathers’ God! to thee we raise - In cheerful song our grateful praise,-- - And laud and magnify and bless - Thy everlasting faithfulness. - - For blessings on our infant days, - For guidance through life’s later maze, - For present good, for hope of heaven, - To thee be endless glory given. - - Our children, Lord, with pious care, - We consecrate to thee in prayer; - O, be thou tender to our tears,-- - O, be thou better than our fears. - - In all our pilgrimage below, - O, may thy presence with us go; - And grant us grace henceforth to be - In sweetest fellowship with thee. - - For service, or for suffering, Lord, - In thee we seek our sole reward,-- - Content, in life and death, to prove - The comforts of redeeming love. - - - - - OUT OF THE DEPTHS. - - - Almighty Sovereign of the sea, - Make known thy matchless majesty; - Rebuke the raging of the deep, - And bid its surging billows sleep. - - Great God, regard thy servants’ prayer, - And grant us, still, thy gracious care; - Spare us, O Lord; our lives prolong, - And turn our sorrow into song. - - Out of the depths we cry to thee; - O, let us thy salvation see! - Thy tender pity may we prove,-- - Thy changeless, everlasting love. - - Through gloom and tempest guide our way; - The sea is thine--it owns thy sway; - The winds and waves obey thy will, - Hushed when they hear thy “_Peace, be still!_” - - On thee alone our hope is stayed; - O, be thou our unfailing aid, - Till, in the haven of thy breast, - We share thy saints’ eternal rest. - - - - - THE SANCTUARY. - - - How amiable thy courts! - Thy temple, Lord, how fair! - How pleasant, still, to lowly hearts, - Thy tabernacles are. - - Thither the tribes go up,-- - Thy chosen Israel,-- - With voice of saintly jubilee - Thy faithfulness to tell. - - How excellent they stand, - The gates of praise and prayer! - Would God my weary, fainting soul - Might dwell forever there. - - Before the mercy seat - We find our faith’s reward: - A heart made holy to behold - The beauty of the Lord. - - Thy ceaseless love, O Christ, - Our pilgrimage shall cheer, - Till, crowned with everlasting joy, - In glory we appear. - - - - - “IN QUIET RESTING PLACES.” - - - More rest we want, O God! - More rest from self and sin, - More silence for serener thought, - The soul’s true goal to win. - - Without, the strife of tongues, - Within, a wayward will;-- - O Jesus, Saviour! speak, and say, - “Peace, troubled heart, be still.” - - In quiet confidence - We then shall sweetly rest, - And in thy gentleness, O Lord, - For evermore be blest. - - - - - THE SEASONS ARE THY SERVANTS. - - - The seasons are thy servants, Lord! - Obedient to thy will, - Thy everlasting covenant - They faithfully fulfill. - - The seasons are thy servants, Lord! - Summer and winter bring - Rich blessings from thy gracious hand,-- - The bounty of the King. - - The seasons are thy servants, Lord! - Why should thy children fear? - With loving-kindness manifold - Thou crownest every year. - - The seasons are thy servants, Lord! - The sunshine and the rain; - The seedtime and the harvest blend - In our eternal gain. - - The seasons are thy servants, Lord! - Thy changeless love we laud, - And magnify, with grateful joy, - The goodness of our God. - - - - - ASPIRATION AND REST. - - - O God, of love the _Fountain_ and the _Sea_! - My fainting soul pants ceaselessly for thee; - Earth’s bitter streams no comfort can supply,-- - For thee, for thee, the living God, I sigh. - - No more below my wayward wishes roam,-- - My heart, at last, is conscious of its home; - My portion thou, my refuge and my rest;-- - O gracious Saviour, take me to thy breast. - - But O, my brothers! comfortless as I,-- - Alike we languish, and alike we die; - Be merciful, O God, and hear the prayer - Of every fainting spirit everywhere. - - In the dear shelter of thy tranquil breast, - O Love divine, a weary world would rest; - The whole creation travaileth for thee, - O God, of love the Fountain and the Sea! - - - - - THE LARGER LIFE. - - - My years are very few, O God! - More rapidly they pass - Than clouds whose transient tale is told - In shadows on the grass. - - My years are very few, O God! - But they are full of thee,-- - A drop of being in thy life’s - Unfathomable sea. - - My years are very few, O God! - O, let me clearly see - How they grow strong and beautiful - In thy immensity. - - My years are very few, O God! - The sum of them is small; - But each may serve thy blessed will, - And thou shalt have them all. - - My years are very few, O God! - But, safe on sea or land, - I confidently journey on,-- - My times are in thy hand. - - My years are very few, O God! - On earth, but not in heaven;-- - To thee, eternal Life and Love, - Be endless praises given. - - - - - CHRIST IN SONG. - - - - - CHRISTMAS. - - - O holy, happy morning, - That saw the Saviour’s birth! - The star, thy brow adorning, - Beams mercy on the earth. - For shepherds, and for sages, - Thy cheer, impartial, free,-- - The travail of the ages - Finds recompense in thee. - - My soul, be thou believing,-- - No more thy past deplore; - In Christ all loss retrieving, - Rejoice for evermore. - By love unknown attended, - Thy weary watch and ward,-- - Behold! the vision splendid! - The angel of the Lord! - - And hark! the herald angel! - The radiant, rapturous throng! - The ravishing evangel - Floods all the hills with song: - “To God in heaven, glory, - Good will to men below;” - Speed, speed the blessed story, - That all the world may know. - - Repeat it softly, slowly, - For still, in hut and hall, - Are lonely hearts, and lowly, - That hunger for it all. - Again--again the story! - Till sin and sorrow cease-- - “To God, the Father, glory, - And to his children, peace.” - - - - - GOLD, AND FRANKINCENSE, AND MYRRH. - - - Faithful, followed they the star - Faintly glimmering afar, - Till it rested o’er the way, - Where the Lord of glory lay. - - Gold, and frankincense, and myrrh, - Gave each regal worshiper, - Seeing, in the Babe divine, - Answer of the heavenly sign. - - Lo! again the star appears, - Shining through our griefs and fears,-- - Dayspring of the desolate-- - Heaven stoops down to our estate! - - By the path the wise men trod, - Seek we, too, th’ incarnate God; - Blessed goal, where ends all strife: - Christ, the Way, the Truth, the Life. - - Kneeling where the Magi knelt, - Feeling what the Magi felt,-- - Of all nations the Desire, - Lord, to thee our souls aspire. - - Hasten, heart of mine, to bring - From thy store fit offering; - Be a royal worshiper: - _Gold, and frankincense, and myrrh_! - - - - - GOOD FRIDAY. - - - O outcast Christ, rejected King! - O Man of sorrows, slain for me, - Accept a sinner’s offering-- - A thankful heart that clings to thee. - - The purple robe, the taunt, the sneer, - The crown of thorns, the scourge, the cross! - Remembering these, O Saviour dear, - I gladly reckon all things loss. - - Could grief of mine make meet redress - For those dark hours of deepest woe, - O Lamb of God! O Prince of Peace! - My tears for evermore should flow. - - On thee, the sinless One, was laid - The guilt of all mankind, _and mine_; - Thy grace the ransom doubly paid - In human agony divine. - - O Son of Mary! Son of God! - Thou King of saints, enthroned above, - Thy glorious name the world shall laud, - And crown thy cross with wreaths of love. - - - - - THE RESURRECTION. - - - Relentless as the council is the cross; - The Nazarene is bruised and torn;-- - Mourn! ye despised disciples, mourn! - Priest, scribe, and elder triumph in your loss. - - The watch is set,--the sepulcher is sure; - Death and the grave and Rome unite-- - Triumvirate of matchless might-- - To make Sin’s vaunted victory secure. - - Secure? With sudden awe the aged earth - _Feels him alive within the tomb_; - And lo! emerging from the gloom, - The brightest morning since creation’s birth! - - The nations see the Dayspring from on high, - And greet the mighty miracle - With songs that shake the gates of hell, - And animate the anthems of the sky. - - - - - EASTER-TIDE. - - - Easter bells are ringing, - Easter anthems rise, - Age and Childhood singing - Strains that seek the skies: - Seek their source, ascending - Where, in rapture sweet, - Song and service blending, - Saint and seraph meet. - - “Christ, the Lord, is risen!” - Wondering angels cry; - “Broken, Death’s dread prison!” - Sons of men reply. - Blessed song and story! - Doubt and fear depart,-- - Resurrection glory - Floods the faithful heart. - - Purest, purest pleasure - In each bosom wells; - Happy, happy measure-- - How the choral swells! - - By that song supplanted, - Wrath and wrong shall cease; - From this hour undaunted - Reigns the Prince of Peace. - - Easter lilies, blowing, - Breathe his praise abroad,-- - All their grace bestowing - On the Son of God. - Lo! his brow adorning, - Kings their homage pay; - Hark! the stars of morning - Hail his boundless sway. - - - - - THE SURE FOUNDATION. - - - A strong and sure foundation - Is Jesus Christ, the Lord,-- - Before the world’s creation - The everlasting Word! - His power, supreme, unbounded, - He pledges to his own; - On him their hope is grounded - Securely as God’s throne. - - What though the tempest rages? - No harm his cause sustains; - Built on the Rock of Ages, - Unmoved the Church remains. - - His word shall stand forever,-- - Nor shall one letter fail: - “The gates of hell shall never - Against my Church prevail.” - - From God all grace receiving, - The saints, below, above, - In Christ their King believing, - Shall triumph through his love. - O happy, happy Zion! - The Lamb, for sinners slain, - Is Judah’s mighty Lion, - Who shall forever reign! - - The Rock of our salvation,-- - To thee, O Christ, we raise, - In grateful adoration, - The voice of prayer and praise; - Our common faith confessing, - Thy cross the world shall crown - With glory, honor, blessing, - And infinite renown. - - - - - LIGHT OF LIGHT. - - - Of transient symbol the eternal Truth, - In thee, O Christ, the soul’s sure light we find; - Vision and dream of Age and eager Youth, - Thou pourest heaven on every humble mind. - - - - - ALL IN ALL. - - - O Lily, Rose, and Fountain! - O Dayspring from above! - O Sun, and Sea, and Mountain-- - Immeasurable Love! - Sweet Jesus, Shepherd, Saviour, - May we thy glory see, - And share thy joy forever, - Incarnate Deity! - - - - - A MISSIONARY LYRIC. - - - Lamb of the riven side,-- - Lord of lords glorified! - Victim and Victor, thee we adore; - Shepherd of Israel, - Saviour from death and hell, - Mighty Immanuel! reign evermore. - - Lion of Judah, - From Brahm and from Buddha - Seize for thy glory the sea and the land; - Where age-long error thralls, - Where blackest night appalls, - There, with her radiant walls, let Zion stand. - - The gates of the morning, - Thy temple adorning, - Shall beacon the uttermost isles of the sea; - And nations, now unknown, - Shall bow before thy throne, - And thee their Sovereign own, with saintly jubilee. - - Orient and Occident, - Hail Him the Father sent! - Greet him with shoutings and joyfully sing; - On love’s blest mission bent, - Through Death’s wide realm he went - Conq’ror omnipotent; crown him your King! - - Martyr with gory brow, - Monarch in glory, now, - Victim and Victor, thee we adore; - Shepherd of Israel, - Saviour from death and hell, - Mighty Immanuel! reign evermore. - - - - - IN THE MORNING, JESUS. - - - In the morning, Jesus, - Let me see thy face, - Altogether lovely, - Full of truth and grace. - - In the morning, Jesus, - Let me hear thy voice; - Speak, and let thy servant - All the day rejoice. - - In the morning, Jesus, - Manifest thy love,-- - Peace, and power, and blessing, - Bringing from above. - - In the morning, Jesus, - Show thy cross to me; - Then, dear Lord, I’ll suffer - Cheerfully for thee. - - Every morning, Jesus, - Every evening, bless; - Shelter me forever - With thy righteousness. - - * * * * * - - In the morning, Jesus, - When thy saints shall rise, - Bring me, with the blessed, - Into Paradise. - - - - - PENITENTIAL. - - - At thy cross; O Christ, to thee - Low I bow the suppliant knee; - Cast, O, cast me not away,-- - Help a fainting soul to pray. - - Sinful, sorrowful, I wait - For a look compassionate; - Surely thou wilt pity one - So forsaken and undone. - - Tell me, Jesus, if it be - That thy blood was shed for me; - In thy wounds, O, let me see - Pardon, peace, and purity! - - From the uttermost degree - Of a sinner’s misery, - Mighty Victor, rescue me; - Set my captive spirit free. - - O that I might have a place - In the kingdom of thy grace! - There the penitent are blest,-- - There the weary are at rest. - - Saviour, may I call thee mine? - Yes,--for thou dost own me thine; - Lo, ’tis written in my heart-- - Mine, forever mine, thou art. - - Unto thee be glory given - Evermore in earth and heaven; - Be thy name by all adored, - Holy, holy, holy Lord! - - - - - “FAINT, YET PURSUING.” - - - Breathe on us thy benediction, - Lord of glory, Prince of Peace! - Comfort us in our affliction, - Bid our fears and doubtings cease. - Shepherd of our souls and Saviour, - Who, alone, the wine press trod, - Well thou knowest the world’s behavior, - Man of sorrows, Lamb of God! - - Therefore, in their tribulation, - Turn thy weary saints to thee, - Seeking, in thy sure salvation, - Peace and power and victory. - Strangers here, and pilgrims lowly, - Eagerly we follow thee, - Longing to be with the holy - Who in heaven thy glory see. - - Often faint, yet still pursuing, - All thy footsteps would we trace, - Day by day our hope renewing, - Till we see thee face to face. - - There, thy glorious throne surrounding,-- - Every pain and peril past,-- - We will sing thy grace abounding, - _More than conquerors at last_. - - - - - SALUS PER CHRISTUM. - - - Come, thou Desire of nations, come, - And make thy promised kingdom sure; - Establish in our hearts the throne - Which shall eternally endure. - - In poverty and pain we wait - Thy glorious coming from above; - Make haste, O Christ, compassionate, - Make haste, make haste, Immortal Love! - - Come, in thy plenitude of grace, - And satisfy thy people’s need; - Come, in the greatness of thy strength, - And make us, Jesus, free indeed. - - Grant us thy peace, dear Son of God;-- - To us the Holy Ghost be given; - In thee the Father’s fullness dwells,-- - All, all is thine, in earth and heaven. - - Infinite power belongs to thee,-- - Thou hast the keys of death and hell; - Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, - Our Lord, our God,--Immanuel! - - - - - SUPPLICATION. - - - Jesus, King of kings, most holy, - Pity us in station lowly,-- - Lonely pilgrims, wending slowly - Toward the city where thou dwellest. - - Thou dost see us, weak and weary, - In the wilderness so dreary, - Mourning that we are not near thee, - In thy home so fair and blissful. - - Yet thy promises do cheer us; - And thy Spirit, ever near us, - Bids us pray, for thou wilt, hear us, - And afford us help and comfort. - - Hear thou, now, our supplication, - And relieve our sore privation - With the strength of thy salvation, - King eternal and almighty! - - Mercifully guard and guide us, - Lest the curse of sin betide us, - And an entrance be denied us - To thy glorious palace golden. - - Once for sinners bruised and wounded, - Now by heavenly hosts surrounded-- - All thine enemies confounded-- - Be thou evermore our Saviour. - - - - - IN THY LIKENESS. - - - On my heart engrave thy cross, - Blessed Saviour, Love divine! - Evermore, in gain or loss, - Let me bear that sacred sign. - - In my heart thy love enthrone; - More and more thy rule increase; - Thine the kingdom, thine alone, - Lord of glory, Prince of Peace! - - To my heart--no longer mine-- - Grant the fullness of thy grace; - Living, dying, own me thine, - Till I see thee face to face. - - With thy likeness crowned at last, - O, what rapture it will be, - When the night of death is past, - Evermore to dwell with thee. - - - - - THE LIGHT OF LIFE. - - - O Jesus, sole, sufficient source - Of hope that heals the sad heart’s strife, - Direct us on our darkened course, - Thyself the Way, the Truth, the Life. - - Thou knowest the way we take, O Lord! - Didst thou not prove its painful length? - Help of the helpless, still afford - Thy pitying love, thy tender strength. - - In every trial, every care, - Thy patient footsteps may we see; - The sorrows of thy cross to share - Shall then our joy and glory be. - - Secure in thy unchanging love, - No toil, no suffering will we flee, - Assured that death itself shall prove - The path that leads to heaven and thee. - - - - - CHRISTUS CONSOLATOR. - - - In the day of tribulation, - In the hour of sore temptation, - With the strength of thy salvation, - Jesus, Saviour, comfort me. - - When no more the heart may borrow - Hope and courage from the morrow,-- - In the darkest depths of sorrow, - Jesus, Saviour, comfort me. - - When all aid is unavailing, - Flesh and heart together failing, - Sin and death the soul assailing,-- - Jesus, Saviour, comfort me. - - On thy word alone relying,-- - Never thy dear name denying,-- - O, forsake me not when dying! - Jesus, Saviour, comfort me. - - Crowned, at last, in light supernal, - Victor over foes infernal,-- - With thy love, supreme, eternal, - Jesus, Saviour, comfort me. - - - - - HOLY SPIRIT, HEAVENLY GUEST! - - - Holy Spirit, heavenly Guest, - Make thy home within my breast; - Yearns for thee my weary heart,-- - Come, and nevermore depart. - - Where thou dwellest peace abides,-- - Grace surpassing all besides,-- - Priceless treasure, pure and blest, - Earnest of eternal rest. - - God’s dear will be done in me - Even as it pleaseth thee; - Only let me fully prove - The sweet comfort of thy love. - - Cheerfully, for Jesus’ sake, - May I every burden take,-- - Glad to trace the pathway trod - By the suffering Son of God. - - Blessed Comforter and Guide, - Keep me near the Saviour’s side, - Till I in his likeness rise, - Crowned with bliss beyond the skies. - - - - - HOLY SPIRIT, LIGHT DIVINE! - - - Holy Spirit, Light divine! - On our souls in mercy shine; - Gates of heaven again unfold;-- - Haste, for Time is waxing old. - - On the Church of Jesus shower - All thy plenitude of power; - Heal earth’s bitterness and strife - With the Saviour’s love and life. - - Over all created things - Brooded, once, thy blessèd wings; - Groans the world with grief and pain - Dove divine! descend again. - - - - - “THE DAY OF CHRIST.” - - - The Son of man will come,-- - His promise cannot fail; - The royal Conqueror - Shall over all prevail; - And Earth shall hear his summons dread, - And Death and Hell give up their dead. - - Ten thousand thousand saints - His coming shall attend,-- - And underneath his feet - The firmament shall rend; - And, prostrate at his judgment throne, - The world his sovereignty shall own. - - O Son of Mary! hear - A helpless sinner’s prayer, - And, on that awful day, - Make me thy gracious care; - O, be my heart’s sure hope and stay - When the wide heavens shall flee away. - - Keep faithful watch, my soul, - And pray “Thy kingdom come;” - But leave it all to Him, - How he shall bring thee home; - The resurrection of the just - Shall recompense thy patient trust. - - - - - THE CONSUMMATION. - - - O Saviour, whose surpassing grace - Exceeds the guilt thy griefs atoned, - The praises of a ransomed race - Be thine, in highest heaven enthroned. - - The Father’s everlasting love - Thy blessed life and death declare; - And still, though crowned with bliss above, - Our deepest sorrows thou dost share. - - O Jesus, merciful and kind, - The sad and sinful seek thy breast; - Our souls in thee their solace find,-- - Our refuge thou, our only rest. - - The goal is sure, O Guide divine! - Again the stars of morning sing; - All wills, all worlds, at last are thine, - O Christ, Creator, Saviour, King! - - - - - ALL SAINTS. - - - Ten thousand times ten thousand,-- - Their shining ranks I see! - With robes of light resplendent, - And palms of victory! - - The crowns they wear are golden, - And gemmed with jewels rare,-- - Fair guerdon of the glory - They with their Saviour share. - - Their home--the holy city, - Within whose ageless walls - No shade of sin, or sickness, - Or sorrow, ever falls; - For _He_ is ever with them, - The Lamb, their life, their light,-- - The joy of all the ransomed, - The saints’ supreme delight. - - Dear vision of the blessèd-- - How homelike heaven seems! - Sweet foretaste of the rapture - Exceeding all our dreams. - O Jesus, Shepherd, Saviour, - My guide and guardian be, - And bring me, through thy favor, - To dwell with them and thee. - - - - - OUR LIFE IS LENT. - - - Our life is Lent: - Our years are spent - In penance for the past; - Our songs are sighs, - Our brightest skies - With clouds are overcast. - - Our life is Lent: - The old lament-- - “All, all is vanity;” - And Youth, in tears, - Awaits with fears - The morrow’s mystery. - - Our life is Lent: - Lord, we repent - Each folly, fault, and fall; - Our best resolve - Do thou absolve,-- - Forgive, forget it all. - - Our life is Lent: - Our hearts are rent, - As we thy gifts recount, - And mark again, - With bitter pain, - “The pattern in the mount.” - - Our life is Lent: - Our strength is spent; - O holy Judge, and just, - Receive our prayer,-- - Poor sinners spare; - Remember we are dust! - - Our life is Lent: - But Jesus went - This way; in him confide; - ’Twill soon be past; - Then, for thy fast, - _Eternal Easter-tide!_ - - - - - IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR. - - - “It doth not yet appear what we shall be;” - The goal, the crown, but dimly we discern,-- - For evermore from sin and sorrow free, - In that blest world for which we often yearn. - - “It doth not yet appear what we shall be;” - Eye hath not seen, nor was it ever told-- - The height of honor we shall share with Thee, - Enthroned in light and rapture manifold. - - “It doth not yet appear what we shall be,”-- - Redeemed from death and glorified above; - Enough, dear Lord, that we shall be like thee, - In that eternal life of cloudless love. - - - - - THE RAINBOW ROUND THE THRONE. - - - The sunshine and the shadow--alternately they flow - Across the fields of ether, across our hearts below; - The gloom and glory blending in beauty manifold, - The mists of morning ending in evening’s gates of gold. - - Forever and forever our human lives are so-- - The sunshine and the shadow, alternate weal and woe; - Perpetually ascending, earth’s mingled mirth and moan,-- - But lo! above us bending, the rainbow round the throne! - - Hold fast the heavenly vision; this hope thy soul sustain-- - All things shall work together for thy eternal gain; - The mystery of sorrow, the mystery of pain, - Shall sure, some happy morrow, to every heart be plain. - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Poems: Pastoral and Psalm, by Benjamin Copeland - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS: PASTORAL AND PSALM *** - -***** This file should be named 51367-0.txt or 51367-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/3/6/51367/ - -Produced by Larry B. 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