84 LIGHT'S TEACHINGS. Not known by bustle but by useful deeds, Quiet and gentle, clear and fair as light; Wasting no needless sound, yet ever working, Sunshine is ever calm; There are no tempests in yon sea of beams, Sunshine is ever strong; No blast can break or bend one single ray; It passes through them in its quiet power, LIGHT'S TEACHINGS. No might of armies, and no rage of storms, Sunshine is ever pure; No art of man can rob it of its beauty, Fit type of that fair heaven where all is pure, 85 Where darkness comes not, where no shadow falls, Where night and sin can have no dwelling-place. Sunshine is ever joyous ; Its birthplace is in yon bright orb which flings, 86 EARTH'S BEAUTY. The faithful grave shall render up its treasure, And sunshine, such as earth has never known, Shall fill these skies with mirth, and smiles, and beauty Erasing each sad wrinkle from their brow, EARTH'S BEAUTY. WHERE the wave murmurs not, Where the stream rushes not, Where the wood darkens not, Bright tho' the heavens were, And all as Eden fair, Yet as a dweller there, I would not be ! O wave, and breeze, and rill, and rock, and wood, Was it not God himself that called you GOOD? THE NIGHT AND THE MORNING. To dream a troubled dream, and then awaken And then to wake 'mid smiles, and love, and joy; To look at evening on the storm's rude motion, So runs our course-so tells the church her story, Brief shame on earth, but after shame the glory, Lord Jesus, come, and end this troubled dreaming! Dark shadows vanish, rosy twilight break! Morn of the true and real, burst forth, calm-beaming. Day of the beautiful, arise, awake! HOPE OF DAY. TILL the day dawn, And the Day-star arise- O guide him through the waste, The path is rough and drear; Of flood, fire, rock, and sea; Yet I, in loneliness, Would fain still onward press. O felt and known, but yet unseen, be nigh ; O loved and longed-for, hear each hidden sigh; Leave me not, struggling thus, to sink and die. Till the day dawn, And the Day-star arise— |