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Lead, Kindly Light John Henry Newman, D. D. 

Home, Sweet Home John Howard Payne 

Rock of Ages Rev. A. M. Toplady 

AuLD Lang Syne Robert Bums 

Nearer, My God, to Thee Sarah F. Adams 

Psalm of Life H. W. Longfellow 

Art thou weary St. Stephen 

He giveth His beloved Sleep T. C. Tildesley 

One Sweetly Solemn Thought Phcebe Gary 

Thou Everywhere Charles J. Sprague 

Abide with Me Rev. Henry F. Lyte 

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NE of the very earliest of Henry W. Longfel- 
low's poems, written while a very young man 
and published in his first collection of poems in 
1839, will probably live longer than his more 
mature work. It was originally published as 
" What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist," 
and it was his earnest protest against the pessimistic teach- 
ing of the unknown writer of Ecclesiastes. Read in this 
light, as it should be, it has a power and strength seldom 
found in verse. As a poet, Longfellow is admitted to be the 
one who has " best expressed the feelings of natural man in 
regard to death and future life," and in his " Psalm of Life " 
and " Footsteps of Angels " (his tribute to his dead wife), 
this expression finds its highest embodiment. He died in 
1882. 



aril me not, in mournful numBer^, 
'' atife i? 6ut an cmptp btcam !'' 
for tlje leeoul ijsJ beab t^t je^Iumfier^, 
3Ilnti tljins^ are not tofjat tftep je^eem. 

^ fife i^ real ! Hife i^ earnest ! 
M^JL ^nb t{)e grabe i^as not it^ goal ; 
'*2Du^t tljou art, to bu^t returne^e^t;' 
i©aief not ^e^pofent of tlje jefoul* 



Y^ ^^ enjopment, anb not ^ortotD, 
A%^ '^^ out be^trmb enb or toap ; 
2&ut to act, tljat eat!) to^morroto 
fititx u^ iatt^tt tl^an to^bap^ 

Htt 10 long, anb €mie i^ fleeting, 
3Ilnb out lieart^, tijougl) je^tout anb brabe, 
J^tfll, lifee muffleb brum^, ate Beating 
jf unetal mattl^e^ to tl)e gtabe* 



Xn tfte tDoriti'^ btoah Mb of bank, 
3(n tlje fiibouat of llifc, 
25e not lifee bumfi, briben cattle ! 
25e a Ijcto in tlje strife ! 

^^/tu^a^t no jputurc, IjotDc'ct pleasant ! 
^A* 3let ti)e ticab jpa^t butp tt^ Dcati ! 
3lltt— act in tl^e Jitoing f^te^ent ! 
!^eatt tDitjjin, anb (©ob o'ctljcab ! 



\ fi\jit$ of great men all temmti u^ 
#■ ^ Wc tan mafee out litoe^ Sublime, 
5tnti, bepatting, leabe fietjinti u^ 
5f ootprint^ on tlje ^anbjef of time ; 

V^Tootpnnt^, tliat perljap^ anotljer, 
^^ baaing o'er iik'g solemn main, 
31 forlorn anti ^B^fjiptorecfeeti firotl^er 
^Seeing, ^liall tafee Ijeart again. 



Ket n$, tljen, be np anb boiiig, 
. ]@itI)aI)eartfotanpfate; 
^tiH at Jjiebing, ^till j^ut^umg, 
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