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FOR THE

SCHOOL ROOM;

A SELECTION OF SACRED AND SECULAR SONGS FOR
THE USE OF SCHOOLS, ACADEMIES, And

THE SOCIAL CIRCLE.

BY ELIAS NASON, M. A.

"O say not, dream not heavenly notes
To childish ears are vain ;

That the young mind at random floats,
And cannot reach the strain.

Dim, or unheard, the words may fall,

And yet the heaven-taught mind
May learn the sacred air, and all
The harmony unwind."

NEWBURYPORT:

JOHN G. TILTON AND COMPANY.

BARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

Mrs. A. R. Pope Cambridge.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1855, BY J. G. TILTON & Co.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

BV

525

· N28
1855

ANDOVER: J. D. FLAGG,
Stereotyper and Printer.

SACRED SONGS.

1

Father! Thy Paternal Care.

TUNE-See Kingsley's S. Choir, vol. 1, p. 84.

1 FATHER! Thy paternal care
Has my guardian been and guide ;
Every hallowed wish and prayer
Has Thy hand of love supplied;
Thine is every thought of bliss,
Left by hours and days gone by;
Every hope thine offpring is,
Beaming from futurity.

2 Every sun of splendid ray;

Every moon that shines serene;
Every morn that welcomes day
Every evening's twilight scene;
Every hour which wisdom brings;
Every incense of Thy shrine;
These and all life's holiest things,
And its fairest-all are Thine.

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Righteous One!

Through life's strange vicissitude,

There reposing all my care,

Trusting still, through ill and good,

Fixed, and cheered, and counselled there.

DR. JOHN BOWRING.

4 Oh may each day my heart improve,
Increase my faith, my hope, my love;
And thus its shades around me close,
More wise and holy than I rose.

PROF. FRISBIE.*

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1 YE tribes of Adam join,

TUNE-" Lenox."

With heaven and earth and seas,

And offer notes divine,

To your Creator's praise.

Ye holy throng

Of angels bright,
In worlds of light,
Begin the song.

2 The shining worlds above,
In glorious order stand;
Or in swift courses move,
By His supreme command.
He spake the word,
And all their frame
From nothing came,

To praise the Lord.

3 Virgins and youths, engage,
To sound His praise divine,

While infancy and age

Their feebler voices join.

*This accomplished scholar was born at Ipswich, Mass. in 1784.-
He was appointed to the chair of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge, in
1817, and died in 1821.

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