Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view. Built God a church, and laughed his word to

Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars,

Nor less I deem that there are Powers

White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery Which of themselves our minds impress ;

Paradise Lost, Book iii.

THEOLOGY.

In Adam's fall

We sinned all.

My Book and Heart
Must never part.

Young Obadias,
David, Josias,

All were pious.

Peter denyed
His Lord, and cryed.

Young Timothy
Learnt sin to fly.

Xerxes did die,
And so must I.
Zaccheus he
Did climb the tree
Our Lord to see.

MILTON.

That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness.

Expostulation and Reply.

WORDSWORTH.

Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds,

At last he beat his music out.

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

In Memoriam.

JESUS CHRIST.

POPE.

TENNYSON.

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning!
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
Epiphany.

BISHOP HEBER.

Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long :
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets
strike,

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true. No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charı,

O limèd soul! that, struggling to be free,

If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful, beyond compare,

Will paradise be found!

The Earth full of God's Goodness.

J. MONTGOMERY.

Art more engaged! Help, angels! make assay: We know what we are, but know not what we Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart, with strings

of steel,

may be

me;

holy, wh as die to

make mon