T THE RIVER OF LIFE. HERE is a pure and peaceful wave, That rolls around the throne of love, Whose waters gladden as they lave The peaceful fhores above. While ftreams which on that tide depend, Steal from those heavenly shores away, And on this desert world descend, O'er weary lands to ftray; The pilgrim, faint, and nigh to fink There, O my soul, do thou repair, There droop that wing, when far it flies It may be that the waft of love Some leaves on that pure tide has driven, Have floated down from heaven. So fhall thy wounds and woes be healed Thy Saviour's praise to fing. TRUE GAIN. SOUL AND BODY. OOR soul, the centre of my finful earth, Foiled by those rebel powers that thee array, Why doft thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so coftly gay? Why so large cost, having so fhort a lease, Doft thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's lofs, And let that.pine to aggravate thy ftore! Buy terms divine in selling hours of drofs ! Within be fed, without be rich no more! So fhalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men, And, death once dead, there's no more dying then. Shakspeare. SOM OMETIME, O Lord! at least in show, O God! forgive this crying fin, George Wither. OFT TRAVELS AT HOME. FT have I wifhed a traveller to be: At laft I said, What mean'ft thou, wandering elf And Afric thine affections. And if still Away, then, with thy quadrants, compaffes, Close up thy annals and thy histories! Study thyself, and read what thou haft writ |