Yet now I greet thee, sunny Spring! I greet the cheering lore

Thy daisied lanes and meadows bring, Thy laughing cuckoos pour.

As primrose ranks re-gild the banks,
Which desert long had lain,

All I have lost by earthly frost
Shall blossom forth again.

THE LIGHTS ASHORE.

I SAILED the deep sea-water:
The moon was shadowed o'er:
A sombre cloud had caught her:
But I saw the lights ashore.
And I knew that soon or later
I should gain the friendly pier,
The hearth, whose cheer was greater,
And things familiar there.

'Mid life's dark billows sailing,
Around me closed the night,
With tones of earthly wailing;
But afar I saw the light.
And I knew that late or early,

I should gain a joy-lit shore,
Where those I loved so dearly
Would greet me as of yore.

HYMN:

FOR THOSE WHO GET THEIR LIVING BY HAND-LABOUR.

'Lord, Thou wilt ordain peace for us: for Thou also hast wrought all our works in us."

JESU, of the sons of toil

Sovereign Leader, hearken now:
Us from all our guilt assoil,
And with Thy good gifts endow.

When the banded smiths of old,

Decked with beauty, fair to see,
Altar-place and ark of gold,

All their wisdom was from Thee.

When to Jewry's tiring height
Gaza's fence the hero bare,
Thine was all the mystic might,

All the lordly courage there.

When the ploughman ploughed till eve,
Where victorious Kishon flows,
Taught the flowery plain to cleave,
All his art from Thee arose.

And when Thou wast here below,
Rudely housed with needy kin,
Forth at morn 'twas thine to go,
All the daily meal to win.

Lord and Leader! Nazarene !

Grant us knowledge, force, and skill,

Cheer of heart, whate'er the scene,
And the stout enduring will.

Toiling now where thou hast toiled,
Help us, Lord! and, when we die,
Us, from all our guilt assoiled,
Gather to Thy home on high.

Exod. xxxi. 1—11. Judges xiii. 24, 25: xiv. 5, 6, 19: xv. 14:
xvi. 2, 3. Isaiah xxviii. 24-26. S. Mark vi. 3.