SONGS

OF

THE SOUL,

DERIVED FROM THE

WRITINGS OF BRITISH, CONTINENTAL, AND TRANSATLANTIC AUTHORS,

แ THE ORE OF TRUTH FROM MINES OF THOUGHT.

LONDON:

WILLIAM WHITE, 70, PICCADILLY.

MDCCCLVI.

147. d. 82.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

LONDON:

J. and W. RIDER, Printers, 14, Bartholomew Close.

RIGHT HONORABLE

AND

MOST REVEREND

THOMAS MUSGRAVE, D.D.,

LORD

ARCHBISHOP OF YORK

AND

PRIMATE OF ENGLAND,

This Volume is

(WITH PERMISSION)

DEDICATE D,

AS A TRIBUTE OF SINCERE RESPECT

FOR HIS EXALTED POSITION

AND

CHRISTIAN VIRTUES.

THOU art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, ETERNAL WORD!

From Thee departing they are lost, and rove

At random, without honour, hope, or peace.

From Thee is all that soothes the life of man;

His high endeavour, and his glad success,
His strength to suffer, and his will to serve.
But, oh! thou bounteous Giver of all good,
Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the Crown!
Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what thou wilt away.

COWPER.