Where does the wisdom and the power divine Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book? But we despise these His inferior ways, Though no less full of miracle and praise: Upon the flowers of heaven we gaze; The stars of earth no wonder in us raise. A. Cowley LXIV "W1 NAAMAN'S SERVANT HO for the like of me will care?" So whispers many a mournful heart, When in the weary languid air, For grief or scorn we pine apart. So haply mused yon little maid, A captive now, and sold, and bought, But One who ne'er forgets is here: - O serve Him yet in duteous fear, So shall the healing Name be known By thee desponding lepers know The sacred water's sevenfold might, Then wherefore sink in listless woe? Christ's poor and needy claim your right. Your heavenly right to do and bear J. Keble LXV THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ASSYRIANS The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest, when summer is green, For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, Lord Byron LXVI HEAVENLY WISDOM HAPPY is the man who hears For she has treasures, greater far In her right hand, she holds to view She guides the young with innocence, According as her labors rise, So her rewards increase; Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. Michael Bruce LXVII HABAKKUK'S PRAYER Chap. iii. 17, 18. VET though the fig-tree should no burden bear, Though vines delude the promise of the year; Yet though the olive should not yield her oil, Nor the parched glebe reward the peasant's toil ; Though the tired ox beneath his labors fall, And herds in millions perish from the stall ! Yet shall my grateful strings Forever praise Thy name, Forever Thee proclaim The everlasting God, the mighty King of kings. Broome LXVIII JOB'S CONFESSION HOU canst accomplish all things, Lord of might: And every thought is naked to Thy sight. But O, Thy ways are wonderful, and lie E. Young |