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Could we not spring, on hope's bright wing, Thou art the tower of my defence,

O God, to heaven and thee!

The refuge where I hide.

Isaac Watts

ROSEDALE. L. M.

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George Frederick Root. 1843.

672. Paternal Providence of God.

THROUGH all the various shifting scene
Of life's mistaken ill or good,
Thy hand, O God! conducts, unseen,
The beautiful vicissitude.

Thou givest with paternal care,
Howe'er unjustly we complain,
To all their necessary share
Of joy and sorrow, health and pain.

All things on earth, and all in heaven,
On thine eternal will depend;
And all for greater good were given,
Would man pursue the appointed end.

Be this my care: to all beside
Indifferent let my wishes be;
Passion be calm, and dumb be pride,
And fixed my soul, great God, on thee.

Samuel Collett.

673. God the Eternal Dwelling-place.
THOU, Lord, thro' every changing scene
Hast to thy saints a refuge been ;
Through every age, eternal God,
Their pleasing home, their safe abode.

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EWING. 7.6.

Bp. Alexander Ewing. 1861.

677.

Jerusalem, the Golden.

JERUSALEM, the golden!
With milk and honey blest :
Beneath thy contemplation

Sink heart and voice opprest.
I know not, oh, I know not
What joys await us there,
What radiancy of glory,

What bliss beyond compare!
They stand, those halls of Zion,

All jubilant with song,
And bright with many an angel

And all the martyr throng.
There is the throne of glory;

And there, from care released, The shout of them that triumph,

The song of them that feast.
And they who, strong and faithful,
Have conquered in the fight,
For ever and for ever

Are clad in robes of white.
O land that sees no sorrow!
O state that fears no strife!

O royal land of flowers!

O realm and home of life!

Bernard of Cluny. 1145.
Tr. John Mason Neale. 1851.

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IN heavenly love abiding,

No change my heart shall fear; And safe is such confiding,

For nothing changes here. The storm may roar without me,

My heart may low be laid; But God is round about me, And can I be dismayed? Wherever he may guide me,

No want shall turn me back; My Shepherd is beside me,

And nothing can I lack. His wisdom ever waketh,

His sight is never dim ; He knows the way he taketh, And I will walk with him. Green pastures are before me, Which yet I have not seen; Bright skies will soon be o'er me Where darkest clouds have been. My hope I cannot measure, My path in life is free: My Father has my treasure, And he will walk with me.

Anna L. Waring. 1850.

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