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FROM THE LIBRARY OF 
 REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON, D. D 
 
 BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO 
 
 THE LIBRARY OF 
 
 PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 
 
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" The spot was sacred, — ruined arch and column, 
 
 The traceried window, and the altar-staiu" — Poj/e 15. 
 
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 AUTUMN MEMORIES * » 
 
 AND 
 
 OTHER VERSES 
 
 BV THE VICAK OF 
 
 S. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, COVENTRY 
 
 WITH TEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY 
 JOEX LEIGHTOX, F.S.A., AND E. F. C. CLARKE 
 
 THIRD THOUSAND 
 
 LONDON 
 
 HOULST N AND VY RICH T 
 
 65, TATERXOSTER ROW 
 
 MDCCCLXIX. 
 
LONDON : 
 
 PRINTED BY J. AND W. KIDER, 
 
 BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE. 
 
TO THE 
 
 ftaunttzz of ^ubsfjorfc, 
 
 THE FOLLOWING VERSES, 
 
 WITH MUCH REGARD, 
 
 AND BY HER LADYSHIP'S KIND PERMISSION, 
 
PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 I have been asked more than once to collect 
 together the few Verses and Hymns that are found 
 in this little Volume. Some of them have found 
 their way into many of our Church Hymnals, and 
 others have ministered consolation and solace to 
 weary and sorrowing hearts. 
 
 The fact that the first edition has been exhausted 
 in the space of a few weeks is a gratifying proof 
 that the request of my friends was not altogether 
 unreasonable. 
 
 That these Hymns may continue to be of service 
 to the Church Militant here upon earth is my 
 highest wish, as it must ever be my fullest reward. 
 
 E. H. B. 
 
 Easter, vdccclxix 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 By the Lake 11 
 
 In the Cloisters 13 
 
 Among the Ruins 15 
 
 At Sea 17 
 
 By the Shore 18 
 
 S. Michael's, Coventry 20 
 
 In Memoriam 24 
 
 For I Know their Sorrow* 26 
 
 Lent . 29 
 
 They shall look upon Me "Whom they have Pierced . 31 
 
 Good Friday 35 
 
 The Holy Communion 37 
 
 My Flesh is Meat indeed 39 
 
 Easter 40 
 
 The Lord's Supper 44 
 
 And when they had sung an Hymn 45 
 
 The Early Sacrament 49 
 
Vlll CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 Sunday Evening 51 
 
 The Queen's Accession . . . . . .53 
 
 A Vision of the Crusades 55 
 
 Confirmation 61 
 
 He asked Life of Thee 63 
 
 "The Sea of Glass, Mingled with Fire" . . .67 
 
 The First Sunday in Lent 71 
 
 Easter Day 75 
 
 The Last Night of the Old Year 77 
 
%utumn gUuwrus. 
 
 BY THE LAKE. 
 
 ^^jC/? EMMED in by mountains, girdled with 
 if f§' M\ dark pines, 
 
 /l' i I* ^ e ^ a ^" e ^ s ^ ee P m g j no ^ a ruffle stirred 
 
 0^^ wli Its deep, calm waters, and the lengthening 
 lines 
 Of shadow kissed its breast : no sound 
 was heard. 
 
 Above, the clouds were coursing through 
 the sky, 
 Save where there gleamed a deep of 
 purest blue ; 
 And one star, like a signal lamp on high, 
 Into a form of wondrous beauty grew. 
 
 = ±i sparkled clear, like that strange Star of 
 
 ill . old 
 
 V^\A That led the wise men o'er their weary 
 «*1 way, 
 
 Till they had brought their frankincense and gold, 
 And worshipped where the world's Redeemer lay. 
 
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12 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 I stood beside the margin ; 'twas a sea 
 
 Of glass ; faint ripples dreamed along the shore : 
 
 I wondered if more beautiful could be 
 
 The Land where seas and stars shall be no more. 
 
 And then I thought me of that lake of old 
 
 Where once the Master 'mid the darkness trod, 
 
 And at His word the angry billows rolled 
 
 Their foam into a calm, and owned their God. 
 
 Then o'er me came faint glimpses of a stream 
 Whose waves make glad the City up above ; 
 
 Lit up for £ver by the sunny gleam, 
 Reflecting only heavenly light and love. 
 
 Oh, when the storms of life have ceased to beat, 
 Safe to the haven where we all would be, 
 
 Lord Jesu, bring our worn and wandering feet, 
 Beside the margin of the Crystal Sea. 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 13 
 
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 II. 
 
 IN THE CLOISTERS. 
 
 AKD by the lake, girt with its forest zone, 
 The Abbey stands, — relic of days' gone 
 ty: 
 The ivy clambers o'er the crumbling stone, 
 And mosses sleep where the dead calmly 
 He. 
 
 Amid the ruins, o'er the chancel floor, 
 The dank weeds thicken, and the rains 
 descend ; 
 The choir of voices sweet is heard no more, 
 Nor to the altar priests their footsteps 
 wend. 
 
 But memories cluster round the chapel grey, 
 And, lingering there, we live the past again, 
 
 And seem to hear, adown the lonely way, 
 The priestly footfall, and the solemn strain. 
 
 Still falls the yew tree's shadow on the aisle, 
 Wearing its crown of life amid decay ; 
 
 Catching in early morn the sun's warm smile, 
 Watching the stars gleam till the break of day, 
 
14 
 
 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 Wait a few years, and that dark yew shall fade : 
 But the true-hearted in their cloistered bed 
 
 Shall wake to life immortal, and, arrayed 
 In robes of white, safe to their home be led. 
 
 That home, the Temple time can never dim ; — 
 No shadows frown, and no sad tears are there. 
 
 Oh, at the last, to join that ceaseless hymn, 
 The crown of all His perfected to wear ! 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 15 
 
 III. 
 
 AMONG THE RUINS. 
 
 \';V? 
 
 QUIET autumn eve. The sun was flinging 
 Long deepening shadows on the purple 
 hill; 
 And, save the vespers happy birds were 
 f\ singing, 
 
 ^ Or the faint sheep-bell, all was hushed 
 and still. 
 
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 The spot was sacred, — ruined arch and 
 column, 
 
 The traceried window, and the altar-stair, 
 Told of a worship, catholic and solemn, 
 
 That in the ages gone was offered there. 
 
 But now the porch, o'ergrown with weeds 
 and grasses, 
 Leads only to the crumbling aisle and 
 nave ; 
 Along the groined roof the stray bat passes, 
 
 While through the transepts winter tempests rave. 
 
 But 'mid the ruins, all unmarred and stately, 
 A large stone Cross lifted its solemn head ; 
 
 The steps were worn, and the sight moved me greatly; 
 It seemed to speak of Life amongst the dead. 
 
16 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 Emblem and shadow of a truth, still deeper, — 
 
 He who in Christ's dear Cross hath healing found, 
 
 Shall safe be garnered by the Angel Reaper, 
 And stand secure upon the Holy Ground. 
 
 Christ, the merciful High Priest and holy, 
 Keep Thou these hearts from desolation free ; 
 
 And from their inner shrine, made pure and lowly, 
 Let worship rise like incense up to Thee. 
 
 Cleanse them from earthly dross, Thou true Refiner, 
 Thy living light upon their dimness pour ; 
 
 Until we see Thee in the land diviner, 
 
 And with the Angels tread the Golden Floor. 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 17 
 
 IV. 
 AT SEA. 
 
 OBED like a king, with coronet of gold, 
 Grandly the sun went down beneath the 
 sea, 
 Flushing the waves with amber as they 
 rolled, 
 And opening up the deeps of heaven to 
 me. 
 
 Around, — the waste of waters, the white 
 foam 
 Gathering in snowy flakes and glittering 
 spray ; 
 Above, — the clouds, like great cathedral 
 dome, 
 All tinted with the hues of dying day. 
 
 Yet this vast ocean, with its restless tides, 
 
 He holdeth in the hollow of His hand ; 
 The clouds, the chariot where His glory rides, 
 
 And but His footstool all the peopled land ! 
 
 Might and Majesty ! all thought above ! 
 
 How eloquent these billows are of Thee ! 
 depth untold ! mystery of love, 
 
 To know that outstretched Hand was pierced for me ! 
 
18 
 
 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 V. 
 
 BY THE SHORE 
 
 HE sun had set in glory ; clouds of gold 
 
 Were fringed with wondrous purple ; 
 
 crimson bars 
 Reddened the foaming billows as they 
 
 rolled, 
 Till from heaven's blue gleamed out the 
 
 silent stars. 
 
 Then passed the Moon up to her queenly 
 throne, 
 The waters flashed with gems and glit- 
 tering ore ; 
 All earth was hushed to stillness, save the 
 moan 
 Of the monotonous waves along the 
 shore. 
 
 I watched the strange clouds as they floated by, 
 Some dark and murky, with a threatening glare ; 
 
 Some white and fleecy mounting up the sky, 
 Like veiled angels on a shadowy stair. 
 
BY THE SHORE. 
 
 10 
 
 And while I gazed I wondered what might be 
 The new, diviner Land for which we wait ; 
 
 For earth itself, from stain of evil free, 
 
 Would gleam with glory from the Golden Gate. 
 
 But there no clouds shall gather, and no more 
 The ocean rage — emblem of deep unrest ; 
 
 No storms shall sweep across that radiant shore, 
 No night shall shroud that City of the blest ! 
 
 This earth is beautiful ; o'er land and sea 
 The mighty shadow of God's thought is cast ; 
 
 But brighter far the Home that is to be, — 
 Christ ! receive us to that Home at last ! 
 
20 
 
 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 S. MICHAEL'S, COVENTRY. 
 
 " Dugdale mentions this church as being first named in the time 
 of King Stephen, who came to the throne in 1135 a.d., and in whose 
 reign it was given, by the name of the Chapel of S. Michael, to the 
 monks of Coventry by Ranulph, Earl of Chester. The tower was 
 commenced in 1373, and completed in 1394. 
 
 " The tower and spire of S. Michael's Church, taken together, 
 present one of the finest examples of Early Perpendicular architecture, 
 and of the steeples which rise from the ground it has no superior in 
 England, taking its height in proportion to its base. Salisbury and 
 Norwich steeples are higher, but their height is less apparent, 
 from the great breadth of base from which they rise. The entire 
 height of tower and spire is 303 feet ; the length of the church is 303 
 feet, and the greatest breadth 127. The interior of this majestic 
 structure, which is the largest parish church in England, consists of 
 nave, chancel, and four aisles. The long lines of tall and graceful 
 columns, supporting arches of vast span, together with the noble 
 range of venerable clerestory windows and the fine oaken-ribbed roof, 
 form a glorious and impressive piece of church scenery." — Taunton's 
 " History of Coventry -," pp. 131, 134. 
 
 HEY tell us that the ages long gone by 
 Were dark and dim, with only light of 
 stars ; 
 That truth and freedom were but left to 
 die 
 "Within strong prison bars. 
 
 It may be so ; and yet, for loftiest thought, 
 For rare self-sacrifice and plenteous gold, 
 With willing hearts for God's high service 
 brought, 
 They were brave days of old. 
 
21 
 
s. Michael's, Coventry. 23 
 
 Look at this glorious building ! how it stands 
 
 Midway 'twixt earth and heaven j a stately pile, 
 Where Faith may worship with uplifted hands 
 Within its solemn aisle. 
 
 I gaze at early morning, when the light 
 
 Streams through the eastern windows, strong and fair, 
 Scattering its coloured glories, wondrous bright, 
 Along the marble stair. 
 
 I gaze at noontide, when the golden glow 
 
 Flushes with life each arch and column high : 
 I rest beneath its shadow, and I know 
 
 It makes Heaven seem more nigh ; 
 
 At even, when the moonbeams, cold and clear, 
 
 Strew with weird phantoms all the silent floor ; 
 And in the stillness nave and aisle appear 
 More marvellous than before. 
 
 wealth of beauty ! joy perpetual ! 
 
 Vision of splendour ! with thy shadowy Spire, 
 Meet type and emblem of the jasper wall, 
 And of the heavenly Choir. 
 
 Fair temple of our God ! long may'st thou stand, 
 
 The shrine of Jesus, storehouse of His grace, 
 Until we reach the bright and perfect Land, 
 And see Him face to face. 
 
24 
 
 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 BONCHURCH. 
 13th Sunday after Trinity, mdccclxiii. 
 
 NEVEK can forget that Sunday night, 
 
 I sat alone beside the burial sod, 
 I watched the moon sail o'er her sea of light, 
 And the dear stars of God. 
 
 No sound disturbed the stillness of that time, 
 Save the low murmur of the restless wave, 
 A seeming echo to the Church bell's chime, 
 Beside that cross-crowned grave. 
 
 I thought of those whose struggles all were 
 o'er 
 In the calm rest of God's untroubled 
 sleep ; 
 Of white-robed saints upon the tideless shore, 
 Where none may toil or weep. 
 
 And then I thought of that far better Land, 
 
 From every storm and darkening tempest free, 
 Where never billow sobs upon the strand, 
 For there is no more sea. 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 25 
 
 Until I almost longed to be at rest 
 
 From life's exceeding sorrow and its care ; 
 To join, e'en now, the anthems of the blest, 
 Their perfect gladness share. 
 
 But while I dreamed of God's eternal Home, 
 Watching the shadows as they flitted by, 
 Voices all dear and earnest seemed to come 
 From out the grave and sky, 
 
 Bidding me work while it is called To-day ; 
 
 To suffer, if He will, and so be strong ; 
 To use His blessed gifts as best I may, 
 For no true life is long. 
 
 Thus, from this lonely tomb beside the shore, 
 
 I learnt the lesson, — hardest yet the best ; — 
 I will be patient — I will dream no more, 
 And He will give me rest. 
 
26 
 
 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 FOR I KNOW THEIR SORROWS. 
 
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 HEN across the heart deep waves of sorrow 
 Break, as on a dry and barren shore ; 
 When Hope glistens with no bright to- 
 morrow, 
 And the storm seems sweeping evermore j 
 
 When the cup of every earthly gladness 
 Bears no taste of the life-giving stream, 
 
 And high hopes, as though to mock our 
 sadness, 
 Fade and die as in some fitful dream : 
 
 Who shall hush the weary spirit's chiding, 
 Who the aching void within shall fill ! 
 
 Who shall whisper of a peace abiding, 
 And each surging billow calmly still 1 
 
 Only He whose wounded heart was broken 
 With the bitter Cross and thorny Crown, 
 Whose dear love glad words of joy had spoken, 
 Who His life for us laid meekly down. 
 
 Blessed Healer ! all our burdens lighten ; 
 
 Give us PeaCe, Thine own sweet Peace, we pray ; 
 Keep us near Thee till the Morn shall brighten, 
 
 And all mists and shadows flee away ! 
 
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AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 29 
 
 LENT. 
 
 ft OW long and deep the shadows of our Lent, 
 Flung o'er its penitential forty days, 
 With here and there a ray of sunshine sent 
 From Sunday's gladness and its burst of 
 praise ! 
 
 Our sins and sorrows, like some surging tide, 
 
 Wave after wave, beat o'er our struggling 
 
 life, 
 
 The deeds of darkness that we fain would 
 
 hide — 
 
 The broken vow, the fainting in the strife. 
 
 Helpless and sad, Christ, we come to 
 Thee! 
 Thou for our sake wast to the desert led, 
 S Unharmed didst cross temptation's stormy 
 sea, 
 That we, Thy children, might be comforted. 
 
 In all points tempted, e'en as we are now, 
 Man Divine ! like to Thy brethren made, 
 
 The thorny crown girdled Thy sacred Brow, 
 That weary hearts might look to Thee for aid. 
 
30 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 Thy cross, upreared on Calvary's altar high, 
 The nail-print, and the Side so rudely riven, 
 
 The mid-day darkness and the piercing cry, 
 Tell the glad story of our sin forgiven. 
 
 Thus to our hearts the long, long gloom of Lent, 
 Leading us on to Easter's brightest glow, 
 
 Becomes a living type and sacrament 
 Of all God's discipline of love below. 
 
 The bitter first, and then the endless sweet, 
 
 The hard, rough way, and then the golden floor, 
 
 The fiery furnace, then nor sun nor heat, 
 
 The Cross, and then the Crown for evermore ! 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 31 
 
 THEY SHALL LOOK UPON ME WHOM THEY 
 HAVE PIERCED. 
 
 (a fragment.) 
 
 SALEM ! for thy long drear night of woe, 
 ^ What tears of bitterest grief might justly 
 flow! 
 But though at morning's dawn and even- 
 ing's close 
 Thy wandering children find no sweet 
 
 repose — 
 Though exiled now, 'mid many an alien 
 
 throng 
 Scattered and lone — a byword and a song — 
 Though Israel be not gathered,* and the 
 
 cry 
 Of " Allah " rises proudly to the sky, 
 As still at eventide those massive stones 
 Send a sad echo to their yearning moans : 
 Fear not, Sion ! wipe thy tearful eyes — 
 Shake off thy bands, and from the dust arise ! 
 Thy dead shall live — the bones all dry and pale,f 
 "With moving myriads shall fill the vale ; 
 
 Isa. xlix. 5. 
 
 f Isa. xxvi. 19. 
 
32 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 For those few tombs that now bestrew the sod, 
 So shall thy seed be, as the stars of God ! 
 E'en now the gloomy shadows flee away, 
 And Faith exulting waits the break of day ! 
 
 I know not if the visions glimpsed of old, 
 
 In glowing strains by gifted prophets told, 
 
 Shall find their full fruition 'neath a sky 
 
 Where sorrow reigns, and all are born to die ! 
 
 Nor if on Sion's summit e'er again 
 
 Shall rise the turrets of a statelier fane ; 
 
 And, brought to their ancestral home once more, 
 
 Ephraim and Judah, side by side, adore : 
 
 But this I know — o'er all their darkened sight 
 
 Their God shall pour a flood of holiest light : 
 
 They shall behold — and as they gaze shall mourn* — 
 
 The spotless Lamb who all "their griefs hath borne : 
 
 Before His Cross— the true Messiah — fall ; 
 
 The Man of Sorrows — yet the Lord of all ! 
 
 And this I know — in Sion's fairer shrine, 
 From Eden's ruins reared, by power Divine, 
 As precious stones they shall for ever stand, 
 ']\Jid jewels garnered by no mortal Hand. 
 E'en now Heaven's azure portals wide unfold ; 
 I catch the echoing strains from harps of gold : 
 Nearest the Throne, with blaze of glory dim, 
 Thy sons, Judah, chant the loftiest hymn ! 
 And Israel's ransomed multitudes are seen 
 Casting their orowns before the " Nazarene." 
 
 * Zech. xii. 10. 
 
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AUTUMN MEMORIES. 35 
 
 GOOD FRIDAY. 
 
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 DAY of sorrow, deeper than our thought, 
 
 When Christ our Passover for us was 
 slain, 
 When He with price of Blood our pardon 
 bought, 
 His loss our endless gain. 
 
 \ Day of woe, and unknown agony, 
 
 When "by the margin of the shadowy 
 dead, 
 The Christ sent up that bitter, sweetest cry, 
 Lo, "It is finished!" 
 
 }<j Yet Day of solemn Joy art thou to me, 
 
 For to Thy healing Cross, I, weary, bring 
 (f " My heart's sad tale of sin and misery, 
 And to that Cross I cling. 
 
 I know that there my heaviest sin was borne 
 
 By sin's Atoner, Human yet Divine ; 
 I see the wounded Side all pierced and torn, 
 And know the spear was mine. 
 
36 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 I trace the print of nails in hands and feet, 
 
 The Crown of thorns purpling Thy sacred brow, 
 And I can almost feel my hard heart heat 
 Beneath Thy sorrow now ! 
 
 I yearn for Rest, but o'er Life's stormy wave 
 
 No Eest I find, save 'neath Thy shelter true ; 
 Here is the Haven, here the peace I crave, 
 That maketh all things new. 
 
 Thy Cross shall teach me all the deeps of sin 
 
 That to Thy mighty sufferings brought Thee down ; 
 Thy death, eternal Life for me shall win, 
 That Cross, a glorious Crown. 
 
 Thy fellowship of suffering here below, 
 
 Thy patient love, dying Christ, be mine ! 
 Then give me all Thy Easter joy to know, 
 And in Thy Likeness shine ! 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 37 
 
 THE HOLY COMMUNION. 
 
 ^S o'er life's dangerous paths we sadly tread, 
 While passing through this strange and 
 weary land, 
 Lo ! a rich Feast of Love for us is spread 
 By the nail-pierced Hand. 
 
 Fainting and footsore, toil we in the way ; 
 
 No manna glistens on the desert sod ; 
 And yet to earnest souls, that kneel and 
 pray, 
 There comes the Bread of God. 
 
 For us there flows no pure life-giving rill, 
 Such as for Israel's need of old sufficed ; 
 Yet here our thirsting spirits we may fill 
 With the glad Wine of Christ. 
 
 Resting beneath His shadow, cool and sweet, 
 
 We gain fresh strength for conflict with our foes 
 Here the lone desert, with its sultry heat, 
 Doth blossom as the rose. 
 
 And though these earthly shadows, dark and dim, 
 
 Veil from our sight His blessed Presence now, 
 Yet Faith exulting lifts her eyes to Him, 
 And sees the thorn-crowned Brow ! 
 
38 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 Waves from the ocean of His mighty love 
 
 Break in rejoicing on the expectant shore, 
 Whispering sweet voices of the Land above, 
 Where storms shall be no more. 
 
 Glad, then, and sacred to all lowly hearts, 
 
 The Table spread by the dear Hands of Christ, 
 Where He His gifts of blessing still imparts 
 In Holy Eucharist ! 
 
 Telling of Calvary and its bitter Cross, 
 
 The nails, the thorns, and the spear- wounded Side 
 Bidding us count all earthly things but loss 
 For love of Him who died. 
 
 Pointing us onward to the Day of Light, 
 
 When, 'mid the glories of His Home Divine, 
 Christ and His Church, in robes of purest white, 
 Shall drink His own new Wine ! 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 39 
 
 «M7 FLESH IS MEAT INDEED, AND MY 
 BLOOD IS DRINK INDEED." 
 
 EEAT Shepherd of Thy ransomed Flock, 
 Send down on all Thy gifts to-day, — 
 The water from the riven Bock, 
 
 The manna gleaming on our way. 
 
 * 
 
 Yea, more ! from out Thy pierced side, 
 Whence flowed the Water and the Blood, 
 
 Pour on our souls the crimson tide, 
 And wash us in that cleansing flood. 
 
 Still journeying on amid the waste, 
 And fainting oft beneath the strife, 
 Our longing spirits yearn to taste 
 Thy heavenly food, Bread of Life ! 
 
 And when our broken cisterns fail, 
 And leave us thirsting on the sod; 
 
 When all the powers of sin assail, 
 
 We need Thy strength, Wine of God 
 
 Come to each waiting heart, Christ ! 
 
 In all the fulness of Thy love ; 
 Make now this blessed Eucharist 
 
 The earnest of Thy joys above. Amen. 
 
40 
 
 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 EASTER. 
 
 S Spring's sweet breath after long wintry 
 snow, 
 As land to voyager o'er pathless sea, 
 As daybreak after weary night of woe, 
 Is Easter joy to me ! 
 
 All Lenten shadows over ! and the light 
 Around us and within so sweet and strong, 
 Teach us, risen Master, how aright 
 To sing our Easter song. 
 
 We stand to-day beside Thy open tomb, 
 We gaze on " linen clothes " with reverent 
 
 heed, 
 And hear the 'angels whispering through 
 
 the gloom, 
 " Not here — but risen indeed ! " 
 
 And all the story of Thy love divine 
 Throbs through our hearts, longing, Christ, for Thee. 
 The bitter chalice, with the deadly wine, 
 Was drained to set us free. 
 
EASTER. 43 
 
 The grave is dark no more ! a stream of light 
 He, rising, left behind for all His own. 
 Death's chain is broken by His arm of might, 
 And rolled away the stone. 
 
 Now Easter-light flushes the morning sky, 
 Thy Form we see, all changed, and yet the same. 
 Master ! we kneel before Thee ; hear our cry, 
 And call us each by name.* 
 
 When evening shadows lengthen all around, 
 And we to Emmaus take our weary way, 
 With us, risen Saviour, still be found, 
 And turn our night to day. 
 
 And from Thy radiant throne of light above, 
 Oh, send us, till our desert wanderings cease, 
 Thine own best legacy of tender love, 
 Thy sweetest gift of peace ! 
 
 Then, at the last, when all shall wake who sleep, 
 Made like to Thee, in raiment white and fair, 
 Oh, bid us welcome to Thy home, to keep 
 Our endless Easter there ! 
 
 * " Jesus saith unto her, Mary." — S. John xx. 16. 
 
44 
 
 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 THE LORD'S SUPPER. 
 
 " To know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge. " 
 
 ESU, to Thy table led, 
 Now let every heart be fed 
 With the true and living Bread. 
 
 While in penitence we kneel, 
 Thy sweet Presence let us feel, 
 All Thy wondrous love reveal ! 
 
 While on Thy dear Cross we gaze, 
 Mourning o'er our sinful ways, 
 Turn our sadness into praise ! 
 
 When we taste the mystic Wine, 
 Of Thine outpoured blood the sign, 
 Fill our hearts with Love Divine ! 
 
 Draw us to Thy wounded side, 
 Whence there flowed the healing tide ; 
 There our sins and sorrows hide ! 
 
 From the bonds of sin release, 
 Cold and wavering faith increase, 
 Lamb of God, grant us Thy peace ! 
 
 Lead us by Thy pierced Hand, 
 
 Till around Thy Throne we stand, 
 
 In the bright and better land ! Amen. 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 45 
 
 "and when they had sung an hymn, 
 they went out unto the mount 
 of olives: 1 
 
 ALM lay the city in its double sleep, 
 
 Beneath the Paschal Moon's cold, silvery 
 light, 
 That flung broad shadows o'er the rugged 
 steep 
 Of Olivet that night. 
 
 But soon the calm was broken, and the 
 sound 
 Of strains all sweet and plaintive filled 
 the air ; 
 And deep-toned voices echoing all around, 
 Made music everywhere. 
 
 The Holy Rite is o'er • the Blessed Sign 
 
 Is given to cheer us in this earthly strife ; 
 The Bread is broken, and outpoured the 
 "Wine, — 
 Symbol of better Life. 
 
 The bitter cup of wrath before Him lies ; 
 
 And yet as up the steep they pass along, 
 The mighty Victim to the Sacrifice, 
 
 They cheer the way with song. 
 
46 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 We ne'er can know such, sorrow as that night 
 
 Pierced to the heart the suffering Son of God j 
 And every earthly sadness is but light 
 To that dark path He trod ! 
 
 And yet how faint and feeble rise our songs ; 
 How oft we linger 'mid the shadows dim ; 
 Nor give the glory that to Him belongs 
 In Eucharistic hymn ! 
 
 for an echo of that chant of praise ; 
 
 for a voice to sing His mighty love ; 
 for a refrain of the hymns they raise 
 In the bright Home above ! 
 
 Touch Thou our wayward hearts, and let them be 
 
 In stronger faith to Thy glad service given, 
 Till, o'er the margin of Time's surging sea, 
 We sing the song of Heaven ! 
 
48 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 49 
 
 THE EARLY SACRAMENT. 
 
 WAS early morning, in the winter-time, 
 The sun just struggling through dark 
 
 rifts of cloud ; 
 The air was filled with music, sweet and 
 loud, 
 That echoed from the church-bells' pealing 
 chime. 
 
 I entered quietly by chancel door ; 
 
 More dear than ever did the old Church 
 
 seem, 
 Like vision faint of Heaven discerned 
 in dream. 
 Deep shadows lingered on the marble floor ; 
 
 While from each window, with its golden glow, 
 Some blessed story of the Gospel shone, 
 Bidding each weary pilgrim journey on 
 
 To that Bright Land they all at last shall know. 
 
 The Feast was ready, and the Table spread 
 With heavenly Food, in presence of our Foes ; 
 There for the faint the Cup that overflows, 
 
 And for the hungry soul the living Bread. 
 
50 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 I knelt before His Table, longing there 
 Deep draughts to drink from out Salvation's well j 
 Praying the Christ within my heart to dwell, 
 
 And make it evermore His temple fair ! 
 
 And as I knelt, a gladness o'er me came, 
 Not all of earth, but calm, and full of rest ; 
 And, like St. John upon the Saviour's breast, 
 
 I felt the sweetness of that blessed Name. 
 
 Feast of love and solace ! what they lose 
 
 Who turn away from Banquet so divine 1 
 
 Who leave untasted Heaven's most strengthening Wine 
 And Manna ! — God's own Bread from Heaven refuse ! 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 51 
 
 SUNDAY EVENING. 
 
 IS Sunday Eve in summer's sweetest time, 
 The sun just sinking 'neath the purple 
 
 hills, 
 A strange, husht calm my inmost spirit 
 fills, 
 As here I listen to the old church-chime. 
 
 Before me, like the glassy sea of old — 
 Waveless in Sabbath-quiet sleeps the 
 
 bay, 
 One white sail glimmering in the far- 
 away, 
 Amid the waters tinged with dying gold. 
 
 Gently the twilight shadows all the land, 
 While from the ghostly clouds that 
 fringe the sky, 
 The moon all pale and new gleams forth on high, 
 Like silver sickle held by Angel-hand. 
 
 Surely all nature owns the Sabbath hour, 
 
 Else why this peace so sweetly hovering round, 
 This silence, eloquent, yet so profound, 
 
 That holds us in its deep, mysterious power 1 
 
52 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 Evening flusht with gladness ! how I love 
 Thy peaceful benediction ! like the dew 
 Baptizing earth, and making all things new, 
 
 Thou liftest lower thoughts and hopes above ! 
 
 1 think of Eden and its sinless bowers, 
 
 Of God Himself walking in cool of day, 
 Where yet no trail of deadly serpent lay, 
 And gladdening Adam through the restful hours. 
 
 I think of Joseph's garden, and its cave 
 
 Eock-hewn, from whence the mighty Conqueror rose 
 The Lord of Life, who vanquished all our foes, 
 
 And flung a ray of brightness o'er the grave ! 
 
 But most I think me of that sunlit Shore, 
 
 Where tempests beat not, and no shadows fall, 
 Where God and His dear love are all-in-all, 
 
 And we shall falter, sin, and weep no more. 
 
 That Best remaineth ; yet these days of peace 
 Are foretastes sweet of that glad Home above, 
 Where all His perfected in light and love 
 
 At last shall meet, and every sigh shall cease. 
 
 Lord of the Sabbath ! Whom our hearts adore, 
 Accept the feeble anthem of our praise, 
 And fit us holier, loftier hymns to raise 
 
 In Thy great Temple — blest for evermore ! 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 53- 
 
 THE QUEEN'S ACCESSION. 
 JUNE 20. 
 
 " Let Her always possess the hearts of Her People, that they may 
 never be wanting in honour to Her Person, and dutiful submission to 
 Her Authority : let Her Reign be long and prosperous, and crown 
 Her with Immortality in the Life to come : Through Jesus Christ 
 our Lord— Amex." 
 
 ING out the merry peals from every steeple, 
 Fling wide the Church's doors for prayer 
 and praise, 
 With thankful hearts let loyal Priest and 
 People 
 Their joyful Anthems raise. 
 
 Thou King of Kings, Who in Thy mercy 
 carest 
 For all Mankind, and callest them Thine 
 own, 
 We pray Thee send Thy Blessing, rich and 
 rarest, 
 On England and her Throne. 
 
 But most we pray Thee, on this day of 
 gladness, 
 pour Thy light where darkest clouds have been ; 
 into joy each trace of lingering sadness, 
 And bless our noble Queen. 
 
 D 
 
 To 
 Turn 
 
54 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 Long years have passed since her young brow, so tender, 
 
 The weight of England's jewelled crown first bore, 
 And the one prayer went up, " G.od, defend Her, 
 And guard Her evermore ! " 
 
 And all those years, Her one and high endeavour 
 
 Has only been to do, and live, the right ; 
 This jewel on her Coronet, for ever, 
 
 "Will gleam with purest light. 
 
 No Sun on Her dominions ever setteth, 
 
 But stronger than Her power by land or sea, 
 Her People's constant love that ne'er forgetteth 
 To think, Queen, of Thee ! 
 
 And though the shadow of a life-long sorrow 
 
 Still stays beside Thee, soon shall dawn the day 
 When God's dear Hand, in His own bright to-morrow, 
 Shall wipe all tears away. 
 
 God bless Thee, noble Lady — and all voices 
 Now blend in one great Litany of prayer, 
 To-day our Land through all its coasts rejoices, 
 Thy Queenly rule to bear. 
 
 Long may'st Thou reign in gentle love and duty, 
 
 And when Thou lay'st Thine earthly Sceptre down, 
 Behold the King of Kings in all His beauty, 
 And wear Heaven's fadeless Crown. 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 55 
 
 A VISION OF THE CRUSADES. 
 
 r AS twilight's soothing hour; around 
 
 there lay 
 A calm responsive to the dying day. 
 The winds had sunk athwart the moaning 
 
 deep, 
 And wearied eyes were lulled in welcome 
 
 sleep. 
 Within the cypress grove whose shadows 
 
 wave 
 In mournful silence o'er a monarch's 
 
 grave,* 
 Methought I lay. ]STo sound disturbed 
 
 the air; 
 All Nature's voice seemed hushed in 
 silent prayer. 
 The Moslem turrets, through the starry night, 
 Shone coldly fair, in lines of silver light. 
 Sad memories, as I caught their tapering forms, 
 Came rushing o'er me, quick as summer storms. 
 Now bright, now dark, the spectral fancies crowd, 
 Like April sunshine struggling through the cloud : 
 
 • "Tradition says that Solomon was buried on Mount Zion." — 
 Bannister' 8 " licit/ Land," p. 298. 
 
56 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 Zion's proud daughters, mincing as they go — 
 Anon her sons led captive by the foe j 
 The harp and viol, that mirthful music made — 
 That harp unstrung beneath the willow shade ; 
 In holy place, as long by seers foretold, 
 The hateful desolation standing bold. 
 Assyrian, Eoman, Moslem guard the wall ; 
 By turns they triumph, and by turns they fall. 
 
 Thus, while I muse, sweet slumber seals mine eyes, 
 
 And glorious visions of the past arise. 
 
 No more alone, but with a mighty band, 
 
 With sword and helmet armed for fight, I stand. 
 
 The red-cross banner flutters in the winds ; 
 
 One stern resolve those gathered myriads binds — 
 
 From proud usurpers' faithless grasp to wrest 
 
 That sacred mount Jehovah loveth best. 
 
 And theirs the task to conquer or to die ; 
 
 The martyr crown, or palm of victory. 
 
 'Tis early morn ; the hills are fringed with gold, 
 When Salem's towers their eager eyes behold. 
 Then sudden, as with one strange impulse stirred. 
 That stalwart host is still, nor voice is heard ; 
 And princely warriors, with their vassal train, 
 The mitred abbot, and the hermit plain, 
 All lowly bending, kiss the hallowed sod 
 That felt the footprint of the Son of God. 
 Then on in haste, with gleaming armour bright, 
 And hearts undaunted, to the fearful fight. 
 
A VISION OF THE CKUSADES. 57 
 
 Bravely the aliens guard the steep, and well, 
 Their glances flashing with the rage of hell : 
 Thrice they repulse the Christians, while around 
 The dead, the dying, thickly strew the ground, 
 'Mid storms of arrows rattling on their mail, 
 Their well-tried strength begins at last to fail, 
 "When lo ! on yonder mountain's lofty crest, 
 With red Cross flaming on his girded breast, 
 An angel-form, bright as the noontide ray, 
 Bids the brave Godfrey once more lead the fray ; 
 Beckons him on with radiant hand divine — 
 And quick his throbbing heart obeys the sign. 
 One deadlier conflict still, and all is o'er ; 
 The Moslem soldier treads the heights no more ! 
 At that same hour, when Calvary's darkened steep* 
 Was rocked with echoing thunder, loud and deep, 
 What time the Lord of life a Victim lay 
 Railed to the tree, and breathed His soul away — 
 On Zion's hill the faithful warriors rest, 
 And plant their standard on its yielding breast. 
 
 wondrous change ! the temple arches wide 
 Echo glad anthems to the Crucified : 
 Before that altar rises once again 
 The sacred symbol of His bitter pain ; 
 The chant of praise with adoration blends, 
 And incense pure from lowly hearts ascends. 
 
 * "The City was taken on Friday afternoon, at three o'clock. 
 Williams' " Holy City:' 
 
58 
 
 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 Gone is the spell ; the dream has died away ; 
 It told of better things, too bright to. stay. 
 'Twas but a ray of sunshine through the gloom — 
 A Christian requiem sung o'er Israel's tomb. 
 The vanquished alien soon regains his spoil, 
 And drives his conquerors from the hallowed soil ; 
 'Mid weeping maids, with trailing garments torn, 
 The holy Eood with taunting jest is borne, 
 And from the summit of that temple fair 
 Fresh floats the golden Crescent on the air. 
 
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 CHANCEL OF S. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, COVENTKY 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 61 
 
 CONFIRMATION. 
 
 " Promise unto the Lord your God, and keep it.' 
 
 OLY Spirit, Lord of glory, 
 
 Look on us, Thy flock, to-day, 
 
 Meekly kneeling at Thine altar, 
 For Thy sevenfold gifts we pray ; 
 
 Guide us all our earthly journey 
 In the true and narrow way. 
 
 Foes on every hand are round us, 
 And our hearts are weak and frail ; 
 
 Gird us with Thy heavenly armour, 
 Never let us yield or quail ; 
 
 Give us victory in the struggle 
 When the hosts of sin assaiL 
 
 Blessed Jesu ! draw Thou near us, 
 As before Thy Cross we bow, 
 
 Help us to be true and faithful, 
 Seal our sacramental vow ; 
 
 We Thy soldiers are and servants, 
 Hear our solemn promise now ! 
 
62 AUTUMN MEMOKIES. 
 
 Lead us by Thy Hand so pierced, 
 Through the waste, with evil rife, 
 
 Feed us with the Heavenly -Manna, 
 That we faint not in the strife ; 
 
 Slake our weary spirits thirsting 
 With the "Wine of endless Life. 
 
 Looking ever unto Jesus, 
 
 Leaning on His staff and rod, 
 
 May we follow in His footsteps, 
 Tread the path that Jesus trod ; 
 
 Till we dwell with Him for ever 
 In the Paradise of God ! — Amen. 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 63 
 
 "HE ASKED LIFE OF THEE, AND THOU 
 GAVEST HIM A LONG LIFE, EVEN FOR 
 EVER AND EVER. 1 ' 
 
 E is not dead," but only lieth sleeping 
 
 In the sweet refuge of his Master's 
 
 Breast, 
 And far away from sorrow, toil, and 
 
 weeping, 
 "He is not dead," but only taking 
 
 rest. 
 
 What though the highest hopes he 
 dearly cherished, 
 j" All faded gently as the setting sun ; 
 ^ What though our own fond expectations 
 perished, 
 Ere yet life's noblest labour seemed 
 begun : 
 
 What though he standeth at no earthly 
 altar, — 
 
 Yet in white raiment, on the golden floor, 
 Where love is perfect and no step can falter, 
 He serveth as a Priest for evermore ! 
 
64 
 
 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 glorious end of life's short day of sadness ! 
 
 O blessed course so well and nobly run ! 
 home of true and everlasting gladness ! 
 
 crown unfading ! and so early won ! 
 
 Though tears will fall, we bless Thee, our Father, 
 For the dear One for ever with the blest, 
 
 And wait the Easter dawn when Thou shalt gather 
 Thine own, long parted, to their endless rest. 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 67 
 
 " THE SEA OF GLASS, MINGLED WITH FIRE." 
 
 SEA of glass, — calm, infinite depths of 
 ocean, 
 Across whose shoreless waves no tempests 
 beat, 
 Nor heaving billows in their wild commotion 
 - Foam out their angry heat. 
 
 vision fair, mystery of wonder, 
 
 Sure type of heaven's unbroken harmony, 
 The wave and flame no longer kept 
 asunder, 
 Fire mingles with the sea ! 
 
 The fire of endless love — the full reflection 
 Of the great sunlight of the Master's 
 face, 
 And all the children of the Eesurrection 
 Held in His sweet embrace ! 
 
 Far on that sea in beauty all-excelling, 
 
 Firm as those waves of old that Jesus trod, 
 The white-robed saints, glad songs of triumph swelling, 
 Stand with the harps of God. 
 
68 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 but to catch, amid some dream-like slumber, 
 Faint echoes of that anthem deep and high, 
 
 Sung by the multitude no man can number 
 Beneath that cloudless sky ! 
 
 Hush ! like the distant sound of billows roaring, 
 Or booming of the thunder far away, 
 
 1 hear the strain that floats from saints adoring 
 
 Amid that perfect day. 
 
 'Tis the same song oft sung by faltering voices 
 Of pilgrims weary, with their bleeding feet ; 
 That now the ransomed host for aye rejoices 
 Upon the golden street. 
 
 Worthy the Lamb ! we sing it in our sadness, 
 As to His cross we cling, that cross we love ; 
 Worthy the Lamb ! they chant with endless gladness 
 In the bright choir above. 
 
 song of songs ! all other far exceeding, 
 
 Full of His love, unfathomed and unpriced, 
 That tells us of the suffering, dying, bleeding, 
 And ever-living Christ ! 
 
 Upon that sea of glass, all storms passed o'er us, 
 
 With the whole Church before the great I AM, 
 may I join that everlasting chorus 
 Of Moses and the Lamb ! 
 
70 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 71 
 
 THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT. 
 
 " Then was Je9us led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be 
 tempted of the devil." — S. Matt. iv. 1. 
 
 " Then the devil leaveth Him, and, behold, angels came and 
 ministered unto Him." — S. Matt. iv. 11. 
 
 P, from the fresh and pure Baptismal wave, 
 Where lingered yet the shadow of the 
 Dove; 
 
 Up, from the echo of that Voice which gave 
 The sweet assurance of His Father's love ; 
 
 Into the desert- waste, so lone and drear, 
 "Whose burning sands no mark of foot- 
 prints bore, 
 
 And the weird silence of the rock and mere 
 Was startled only by the wild beasts' roar.* 
 
 Led to be tempted, when the forty days 
 Of that long Fast had run their weary 
 1 1 1 round, 
 
 I There, face to face, to meet the Tempter's 
 i gaze, 
 
 And win the Victory on the well-fought 
 ground. 
 
 * " And was with the wild beasts." — S. Mark i. 13. 
 
72 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 The struggle o'er, — swift from the Golden Gate 
 A thousand Angel feet that desert trod, 
 
 And with adoring love around Him wait, — 
 The Son of Mary and the Son of God ! 
 
 We wander through the desert, still beset 
 With sharp temptations and full many a snare ; 
 
 With tears of sorrow oft our eyes are wet, 
 And scarce at times we falter forth our prayer. 
 
 Yet in the conflict — in each darkest hour, 
 
 When storms sweep wildly o'er life's troubled sea, 
 
 When almost fainting 'neath the Tempter's power, 
 Oh, suffering Jesus ! we will look to Thee ! 
 
 And Thou wilt give us strength, and in Thy might 
 We shall o'ercome, and in the " little while," 
 
 Behold, in wonder, not the Angels' light, 
 But, better far, Thine own approving smile. 
 
" But now on Easter day when blessed spring 
 Hath flusht with beauty all the smiling land. 
 
 ■Page 75 
 
AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 75 
 
 EASTER DAY. 
 
 ^yP^jP OW hard it was in dark November's gloom 
 To join the high thanksgiving, as we 
 stood 
 With throb of sorrow round that quiet 
 tomb, 
 " We bless Thee," our Father wise and 
 good ! 
 
 It seemed so strange, with breaking hearts, 
 to raise 
 High o'er the "ashes and the dust to 
 dust " 
 The chant of triumph and the song of praise, 
 That told of surest hope and endless 
 trust. 
 
 But now on Easter Day, when blessed Spring 
 Hath flusht with beauty all the smiling 
 land, 
 And hills and fruitful valleys laugh and sing 
 For all the bounties of her liberal hand, 
 
 We seem to scan with keener glance of faith, 
 And deeper insight, life's strange mystery ; 
 
 To hear the " comfortable word " which saith, 
 " How blest are they, in Jesus Christ, who die ! " 
 
76 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 They only leave the long, sad earthly Lent, 
 Oft dark with sorrow and oft dim with tears ; 
 
 They only strike with joy their desert tent, 
 For the bright Home of the Eternal Years ! 
 
 And Easter dawns for them, — a cloudless Day, 
 Whose Sun of radiant splendour ne'er goes down 
 
 They bore the Cross through all the desert way, 
 And now they wear the Victor's fadeless Crown ! 
 
 Joy of Easter ! Light of endless Life, 
 How sweet thy thoughts of solace are to me ! 
 
 1 hear the promise, through each bitter strife, 
 That " where I am, there shall My servant be ! " 
 
 And so we thank Thee, Father, who in love 
 Watchest with sleepless eye each burial sod ; 
 
 Our Easter light shall point to joys above, 
 And the one Home of all the Sons of God ! 
 
A.UTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 77 
 
 THE LAST NIGHT OF THE OLD YEAR. 
 
 WATCHED the Old Year as it lay a-dying, 
 The moon's cold light fell on the darkened 
 bed, 
 I heard the winds their Requieseat sighing 
 Over his weary head. 
 
 His work was done ; and like a warrior 
 olden, 
 The hard fight o'er, he laid his armour 
 down, 
 And passed all silent through the portal 
 golden, 
 Where gleams the victor's crown. 
 
 What a strange life it was ! Oh, if the 
 story 
 Of all its joys and sorrows could be known, 
 How would dark shadows, mingling with its glory, 
 Round its whole course be thrown ! 
 
 How many tears have fallen hot and thickly ; 
 
 How many wounded hearts, with anguish sore, 
 Have uttered the deep longing, "Oc ome quickly ; 
 Our buried hopes restore ! " 
 
78 AUTUMN MEMORIES. 
 
 How many blessed gifts of truest gladness 
 
 His own dear Hand has scattered on our way ! 
 How oft His voice of love amid our sadness, 
 Turned darkness into day ! 
 
 Old dying Year, thy memories are dearer 
 
 Than any of thy grandsires gone before ; 
 I feel as though thy waves had brought me nearer 
 To the Eternal Shore. 
 
 So here I bring its every sin and sorrow, 
 
 Its deeds accomplished and. its work undone, 
 To His dear Cross, and wait the bright to-morrow 
 And the unsetting Sun. 
 
 Therefore, Old Year, farewell. I watch thee dying, 
 
 Struggling in weakness for thy latest breath ; 
 I catch the lessons thou wouldst teach me, lying 
 In the calm sleep of death. 
 
 And these thy last faint words, while morn doth brighten,- 
 
 " Up and be doing ; lay in golden store ; 
 Till the great harvest of the world shall whiten, 
 And Time shall be no more." 
 
 I. AND W. BIDEB, PB1NTEBS, LONDON. 
 
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