Every bush and tufted tree Mortal, flee from doubt and sorrow : Say, with richer crimson glows Barns nor hoarded grain have we, Mortal flee from doubt and sorrow: God provideth for the morrow! One there lives whose guardian eye Free from doubt and faithless sorrow : HEBER. The Use of Flowers. OD might have made the earth bring forth The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, He might have made enough,-enough, The ore within the mountain mine Nor doth it need the lotus-flower To make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, And the herb that keepeth life in man Then wherefore,-wherefore were they made, Upspringing day and night. Springing in valleys green and low, And on the mountains high, And in the silent wilderness Where no man passeth by. Our outward life requires them not, To beautify the earth. To comfort man-to whisper hope For whoso careth for the flowers, MRS. HOWITT. With a Wreath of Roses and Lilies, given to a Bride. W TREATHED roses red with lilies fair, A sacred Head was bound with thorn That lilies might His spouse adorn : TEACHERS OF TRUTH. BEFORE Thy mystic altar-Heavenly Truth- SIR W. JONES. FRUTH Teachers of Truth. is in each flower, As well as in the solemnest things of God; Truth is the voice of Nature and of time; Truth is the startling monitor within us: Nought is without it,-it comes from the stars, The golden sun, and every breeze that blows: Truth, it is God! and God is everywhere! W. T. BACON. Christ's Voice in the Soul. "Come ye yourselves into a desert place and rest awhile: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat." Μ' ID the mad whirl of life, its dim confusion, Its jarring discords and poor vanity, Breathing like music over troubled waters, What gentle voice, O Christian, speaks to thee? It is a stranger, not of earth, or earthly : "Come: come," He saith, "into a desert place, "Art thou bewildered by contending voices, Sick, to thy soul, of party noise and strife? Come leave it all, and seek that solitude : Where thou shalt learn of Me a purer life. |