Sonnet II. It is a false theology that says

Sonnet III. A green and flowery slope

Sonnet IV. There's beauty, motion, music in the stream

Sonnet v.

Unknown, yet well remember'd

Sonnet VI. 'Tis from the Lord, the humbled monarch cried 151

Song,-Hope away

Evening Sketch

To the Nightingale

Summer in Four Sonnets

Song,-How lightly, fleetly glide away

Autumn: in Four Sonnets

Song,-'Twas not when early flowers were springing

Love, Hope, and Fancy

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Song,-Woman, dear woman!

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Song,-O spare me not

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Song,-Throw, Father Time, thy hour-glass by

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Song,-With hopes once fondly cherish'd

On the Birth of F. R. C.

To the Memory of Edward Powell, Esq.

ERRATA.

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65, line 5, for beam, read gleam.

THE

STAR IN THE EAST.

B

ARGUMENT.

Song of the Angels at our Lord's Advent.-Massacre of the Innocents.-Destruction of Jerusalem.-Modern Jerusalem.-Predicted Restoration of the Jews.-Apostrophe to England as the chief Evangelist of the Nations.-Spread of Christianity in India.-In Persia.-In China.-In Polynesia.-In Greenland. -North American Indians.-Sierra Leone.-Central Africa. -Apostrophe to the Star of Bethlehem.-The Scriptures.Progress of Knowledge-Signs of the Times.

THE

STAR IN THE EAST.

O to have heard the unearthly symphonies,
Which o'er the starlight peace of Syrian skies
Came floating like a dream, that blessed night
When angel songs were heard by sinful men,
Hymning Messiah's advent! O to have watch'd

That night with those poor shepherds, whom, when

first

The glory of the Lord shed sudden day,

Day without dawn, starting from midnight, day
Brighter than morning,-on those lonely hills,
Strange fear surprised-fear lost in wondering joy,
When from the angelic multitude swell'd forth
The many-voiced consonance of praise :-