Been drawn to thee, and I found thy | presence life: 111 | But here I seek in | vain and rarely [ find Thy ancient | promise to the few that wait| In singleness up- on thee, || reach to us. By minds drawn | thither- | ward, and | My- self and sorrows from the | motly | crowd | Of human obser Thou vation. But | Oh | Whose bowels of com- | passion | never | fail| Towards the creatures | fashioned by thy | hand1 Re-animate the dead and give to those Who never felt thy | presence | in their souls | Nor saw thy | beauty, | both to | see and feel | That thou art | lovely, and thy | presence | life: 171 Re-store the | wanderer, and support the| weak With thy sustaining | arm, for | strength is | thine. | And Oh! pre- | serve this | tempest beaten | bark| Fron sinking in the wave, whose swelling | surge Threatens to over-whelm, For- | sake her | not But be her | Pilot, || though | no | sun nor | star Ap-pear a- | mid the | gloom; | for if a | ray | her course | light She rides the storm se- | cure, and in | due | time Will reach her destined port, and | be | | | at peace. THE DOG AND WATER LILY. Cowper. The moon was | shady | and | soft | airs When 'scaped from | literary cares, 1 My spaniel, (Two | nymphs | prettiest of his race, a- | dorned with every | grace | That spaniel | found for | me,)|| and reeds! Now | wanton'd | lost in | flags It was the time when | Ouse dis- | play'd | Their beauties | I in- | tent survey'd And one I wish'd my own. | 111111 With cane ex- | tended | far To steer it close to | land;| 1771 I sought 11 But still the prize | though nearly | caught, | | Escaped my | eager | hand. 1971 | | Beau mark'd my unsuccessful pains | And puzzling sat his puppy | brains To compre- | hend the | case. But with a chirup | clear and Dispersing all his strong, dream, | I thence with- | drew and follow'd long1| My ramble | finish'd | I re- | turn'd, || The floating | wreath | a- | gain dis- | cern'd | I saw him with that | lily | cropped My quick ap- proach | and | soon he | dropp'd || Charm'd with the | sight, the world, | I| cried, ◄| Shall hear of | this thy | deed: 11 My dog shall | mortify the | pride Of man's superior | breed: |11| Butchief | my- | self | I will en- | join, | } To show a | love |as | prompt as | thine | THE DELUGE. GENESIS, CHAPTER VII. And the Lord said unto | Noah, || Come | thou, and all thy | house | into the ark: for thee have I seen | righteous be- | fore me this beast | in ¦ generation. Of | every | clean | thou shalt | take to thee by sevens, the | seed a- | live | upon the face of | all the earth. For yet seven days and I will cause it | to keep to rain upon the earth | forty | days and forand every | living | substance | will I de- | stroy ty nights: And Noah | did | acthe Lord com- manded him. | was six hundred | years | old, of waters was upon the earth. And Noah | went and his wife, into the ark, flood. beasts that are not in 1771 from cording unto all that and his | sons' | wives | with him, | because of the waters of the | Of clean | beasts and of | and of fowls, clean, of every thing that | creepeth | upon the There went in two and two | into the ark, the male and the | female and earth, 111 unto | Noah | as | God had com- | manded | Noah. ||11| And it | came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. ||11| | 1771 In the ❘ six | hundredth | year of | Noah's | life, | in the second | month, the | seventeenth | day of the month, the same day, were all the | fountains of the great | deep | broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. | And the rain | was upon the | earth | forty | days and | forty | nights. 1717 In the self | same | day | entered | Noah, | and Shem, and | Ham, and | Japheth, the sons of Noah; and the three | wives of his Noah's | wife, and sons | with them, | into the | ark: They, and every | beast after his | kind, and all the | cattle | after | their | kind, | 1 |