How the sailors stand amaz'd and tremble! poor While the hoarse thunder, like a bloody trumpet, Roars a loud onset to the gaping waters, Quick to devour them. Such shall the noise be, and the wild disorder, Tears the strong pillars of the vault of heaven, Breaks up old marble, the repose of princes; See the graves open, and the bones arising, Flames all around 'em. Hark the shrill outcry of the guilty wretches! Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart strings, And the smart twinges, when their eye beholds the Lofty Judge frowning, and a flood of vengeance Hopeless immortals! how they scream and shiver, While devils push them to the pit wide yawning, Hideous and gloomy, to receive them headlong Down to the centre. Stop here my fancy: (all away ye horrid How he sits God-like: and the saints around him Thron'd, yet adoring! O may I sit there when he comes triumphant, Shout the Redeemer. LAUNCHING INTO ETERNITY. WATTS. IT was a brave attempt! advent'rous he Who in the first ship broke the unknown sea; And leaving his dear native shores behind, I see the surging brine: the tempest raves, Such is the soul that leaves this mortal land She floats on the broad deep with infinite delight, The seas for ever calm, the skies for ever bright. 1 MEDITATION IN A GROVE. WATTS. SWEET Muse, descend and bless the shade, And bless the ev'ning grove; Bus'ness and noise and day are fled, And ev'ry care but love. But hence, ye wanton young and fair, No Phillis shall infect the air With her unhallow'd name. JESUS has all my pow'rs possest, He, the dear Sov'reign of my breast, Some of the fairest choirs above His charms, shall make my numbers flow, And hold the falling floods, While silence sits on ev'ry bough, And bends the list'ning woods. I'll carve our passion on the bark, Shall drop and bear some mystic mark That JESUS dy'd for me. The swains shall wonder when they read Inscrib'd on all the grove, That Heav'n itself came down, and bled THE HERO'S SCHOOL OF MORALITY. WATTS. THERON among his travels found A broken statue on the ground; Mould, moss, and shades, had overgrown Ꭰ Ꮞ |