IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) ^' 4fo 1.0 I.I 1.25 Iti IIM 12.5 lU 1112.2 136 1.4 2.0 1.8 1.6 Va <9 /} ^\ '.<^ 33 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y 14580 (716) 872-4503 V .^^. li; 20 a (loiiji; to Holy Altar -Kastor Day 21 \f' K\ rii;8 atiiJ ('oniinaiuliiiuiitd 23 k ""l Believe " 25 Xf On I'reachirii; 28 f| tjffeitory aii.l Oblation 29 (,'oniuieiuoratioii of Liviiii,' and Dead 30 ;| Kxliortation and In\ itatory 32 ;4 Siirsani ( 'orda, Kaster Preface 33 m I'l'ay^/ of Humble Access 35 * Coniinuiiion • 36 lllSt'KI.LANKors VI:KSI:S— KAKLY ATTEMITS. ';'i Spring 41 I A Clt'ar Dav in Simuner 44 f Niu-jits in tile Wood 46 Fndia!» Dir^'e 48 \oi,.f lit the Comet 60 'i'o K. T. M On her bein^' deprived of her hearing 62 To the same On her Recovery 64 Hestorer of the Krrin^'- 56 The Deserted 57 The Servant (iirl's Dream 60 Ooii in Art 62 .My Home 63 Days are passintr 64 LATH if MISCKLLAMPX The Church Cntil Now 69 oh : The Churcli of our Sires 71 The Two Parties 73 The A;;)jfrieved Parishisner 75 Head tliis, Friend . . 76 Matins 77 Khymin^' Letter to Theophilus 79 ( 'liarity and Cliarity 82 llerriiiij: for Dinner 87 A Plea for Fishermen in Ciuirch Building- 89 Care 91 CONTENTS. Life's Lessons 9-j 'I'Ik; SclioolMihtress WA In tlic Mill !H; I?i tiM' Drifts <»7 A N iiiht Kc\ tiT !«« o Ki.\(i of Nuti(jn8 lo;{ Siis)»i.Mise l(ij TliL' |)yiii;r IHseiple 1((7 hanv . IJ? The Crueifixictn ." l-jn Kaster Hymn l;U For the Ascension i;{4 So Came Thy Simkit l.'iti Trinity Sunday \:<> Tiirouifh this Lonj; and Darksome Night l.'ii' Thy Truth the Seasons, Loun, Declare 141 liaptism 14'J Child's Hymn 1 i;i Treason .'. 14: I'rayers at Ni<;ht \i( Late Ue])entance 147 Heturninj; 14!' Kesij^nation l''i We (;i\e Thee, Loun. of Thine If.! Lij,'ht at P^vening.tide l.'x ( )n the Same 1;> < )n the Same Mfi Evensonj,' H'y Eveninji: Hymn IC: Lord of all \(^' ADDENDA. Xmas. an' mg the Fishermen W. The Sister 17. M issions 17 Coniintr to the Cross 17 A Glimpse I'' Not all Lost 17: PREFACE. ■IP VWVA'WCK. ^)f nnikin^l UKUui hmihi flicir j.t )i(> t'ii'/.— Eccl. xii, 1- HV havi'I writtc'ii iliviiH-s ? ami piiblislieil wliy' IVichiUKH' tlie reaik'i' known as well as I. Was it inv fame ? to clear the coiiinion rut ! Iliiiii^ht have been hefure these teeth were cut. But since.' Well -I \iii\ii trr it ten (^niiich as flows Thr water and as melt the April sn«iws ; Aft V vt'r siinwaril earth s thin vapors rise ; Aft I'tveTs plead tlieir love to pleasant eyes ; Aft t resparshers, untjiu^xht, will practice stea'th, Aft misers, nninstructetl, hoard th«dr wivilth ; Aft biibhlint^ brooklets never can kt i^p still) Because I had to write -and «lid -and will. And jm hit sJh'i I irhii t I'm frank IJi^cause I thouj^ht That you wonld read my rliymes, or tliat you ou;iht. This *' Canada <r stomach would she fill : Fnrhids me any work n«»t hers to do, W't (piite im|)lies she will not pull me through : I may not rove for work, am half ashamed To heir, aud with a thirst for jrold inflamed ; I thirst for gold to pay my honest dues, And hring my patient household hread and shoes ; In catalogues that tempt too well the eye Sonie hooks I've marked, and thirst for , dd to buy My heart must sufler — suffers — for the poor, Would that I had a j)urse could suffer more I To meet the ease these titled paijes shine Half in my Mother's service — half m mine. Half in my Mother's service 1 To reprove, In dulcet tones of grieved fraternal love. Such weak presumption, lo ! a vjice assays, And me to judge myself more humbly prays ; Assures me that my Mother writhes with pain To think that I have touched her harp again, The harp she hung secure in halls of King's, That / (adapted child) should strike its strings ! Alack ! this harp is one my Father lent, 'Tis not my Mother's college-instrument : Or else — in boyhood, guest within her hall — Clandestinely I slipped it from the wall. ** Enough I" I hear my Mother's haters say, £ I, \ ; till ; rough : 311 ed ; nd shoea ; p ^old to buy loor, ore ! le ine. tve, lays, >rays ; h pain again, ing's, strings ! ht, it : hall— 11. jrs say, lUKKAtK I*' Till} r"»mu! ur snlicl slicon, [Fl.unitiiii; liiH reJ Jiiul hhu; to lind iih i^qei'ii." "iut uiiJil>.i>-lu'«l to thirt 1 m;ikt' nply - MuHt Wfsloy, Cliahiuiis, fmin <,< v h""k-sh»'lvt'H hii' ^ |4)li }*|iiire ijuj Sjiurin ! Jiu«l tiiy Mninul s|»;u'e I '<'riu' rliymin'4 set, I own, arc st'M.HM tluTis Tlit-y 'l)i»ut uiy toihftc, pillow, stay .scciiri', Fioin itunpiiii; liiiriiM to Wordsworth the di'iinnv.) Li't sprak who will, and sprak liini hack as trii*-, Tlun each to cauU '' 1 lovo you"— "and 1 you" : Tlu' authors never (luarnd on the shrlvts, Tin* rrailcrs make 'hu i muss a' -»n:^ tlu'Uisidvt'M : My kid l»i'sidi' ^ our lioM iitdths «h>wn - //' dttu t roar, shr (h'u'' trenihli.', don't »/"" trown. Bill no: "Too clmrcliy far for mine to read, Ohjects the non-heliever in u ciced : , Anen and ink. * These mercenary rliymes, " it may he said, ** Are got ui> to he purcliaaed, but not read." But no : say lieini; written, they aspired ^JE'en to he bought, perused, and perhaps admired ; |Sy erasures guessed httw hard The work yet he alone condemned the bard. But sheets like these complacently he views, Or if he worries 'tis aneiit his dues : The VERSES through his press spontaneous flow, And spread from thence where'er induced to go. Rectory, Seaforth, N.S.j 15th May, 1S82. 1 de'il, Free ere, lieer, ha nee a tear ; e. but play, i skill mill. strain, <^n the mvim ^mkt lescry, d bard. iWS, Bous flow, d to go. '^^^ ■•"■*!, ! '; A A A A C A P BAY BY DAY. For, from the rising of the sun, even to the going down )f thf^ sau>\ My Same shall he great among the Gentiles; \nd in (nr// place, inc-nse shall he offertd unto My Same, and her Srx. His glorj- fills Her valleys, and adorns her hills, Makes i::lad her cliildren seekinic liiciit, And warns the slumbious, when their night Is o'er, to- rise, nor make delay, But gird themselves to greot the Day. The Church no oiher orbit knows — Circling her Christ she evi'r goes Eound from the Manger to the Cross ; E'en b}' the Wilderness, where mos Unsightly shi ub and cluin~y stone Compa-s the tempted Pi'giim lone And by tlie haunts He frequented, ss. DAT BY DAY. 18 bring* IV praise ht. ir ni^l^t ^s Where sickness was, or life had sped ; And b}' the Garden, solenui, still, "Wheie sweat of blood, and deathly chill, Each other chased adown His cheek Who "Not my wdl, but Thine'' would speak; Moves in her orl)it until — clear From flesh I3' pani^ and ghostly fear ; From faintinT t ) the Clunch is All in all, On her His beams benignant fall, Melting the ice, breaking the gloom, Gil'ling with gladness Font and tomb, And if Ascension Glory spreads A cloud beneath the light it sheds — O'er-dazzling light — to eyf»s unti'ained Eevealitig naught ere it hath pained — Full soon the Spiiit's gift of power u ON THE DIVINE SERVICE Descends in pentecostal shower; The heads that drooped are raised again, The doubtful way now waxes pLain, No longer fainting spirits call *' Come back to me, my Lord! my All !'* But gaze into eternity, Blessing the Holy TrinitV, And would depart— with Christ to be Oh ! not in vain the holy hours And seasons all are His, not ours : 'Tis that His Life sublime — l)efoi"e Believing e^'es lived o'er and o'ei*, As day by day and year by year Devotion sees it mirrored near Upon appointed page — may preach More potently than words else teach His gentle Precepts, and procure Our hearts' acceptance. We were sure He died for us. And yet we know He deigns the wondrous truth to show — > Not graven on historic lore Alone, but — full displayed before Heaven and Earth, whene'er that Bread DAT JSr DAT, IS 4 ad Is broken, and that Wine is shed On Christian Altar. We — baptized With water — have we too despised Suggestive form and sacred rite, And deemed faith's symbols pagan quite And anti-Christian ? Bless the Lord I May lie be by my soul adored For every sacramental thing 1 And for the holy days that bring Me needful memories of how He triumphed where I struggle now ! Kor shall we lose the saintly life Of old cast on this world of strife, As bread upon the water ; found With gladness when the days came round Of harvesting. What precious seed The Church hath sown, that she might feed The present with the past ! Nor blame We her that she hath reaped the same In roll of martyrs, and in fame Of virgin^, and hath loved to name On tablets of devotion — those On whose obedient faith she rose. 16 ON THE DIVINE SERVICE. And riscth yet, and still shall rise, While God by fools confounds the wise. And there is One whoso cherished name Like oil assists devotion's flame; Her soul doth mngnify the Lord, And with her hymn is He adored : Not hers the need, but ours the gain, That we repeat her treasured strain, And sing, at close of well-spent day, Such worthy praise, so sweet a lay. EASTEE BELLS. He taketh up the simple out of the dust : and lifteth th poor out of the mire. — Psalm cxiii : 6. JiNG! ring the bells for Easter morn I The gayest morn in all the year! p' The Lord of Life, from death new-born. Hath changed our Lent to Easter cheer: After the fire, the gold is fine ; After the etorm the sun doth shine : rv#*»^ EAUTER BELLS. 17 no and lifteth th 3r morn I year 1 h new-born, ter cheer : At'trr the cnrnngc-wail is past, Q'he tiMuiiii>h-^(>nii' for avo muy List; AVoai'inoss still ])iecedes renown, Calvary's Cross Life's fadeless Crown. Ring from the grand Cathedral tower, Whence w^ant mayhap hath looked on power ; Eing from heneath the village spire, lis gilding tip])ed as If by tiiv ; Eing from the I'ural Ijelfry too. And forc>t arch resounding through ; O'er city, hamlet, iield and bay, JRing ! I ing for joy of Easter Day ! • — Oui' Surety is accepted now, Kol thorns, a halo decks His Brow; He dwelt with Death, but did not stay, He rolled ihe mas>ive stone away; Angelic watchers waiting ncai', Proclaim the truth : " lie is not here." Free is His Arm, mighty to save — He let the liii-ht into the irrave: And some — fiom higher than yon tower — Hay look again on w^ealth and power. 18 ON THE DIVINE SERVICE, (I GOING TO CHURCH. / was qlad when they said unto me : We will go into the house 0/ the Lord. — I'saltn cxxii : 1. ROM' north and south, fi*om east and west, |K All decently, but plainly drest, ^ Not flaunting dross of worldly taste, Their words but few, their manner chaste, The people to their Temple haste. Devoutly each now seeks a space Whereon to kneel and ask for grace, For grace aiight his King to gre.t, And offer up a service meet To touch the Ear and Heart of God, The sceptre win, avert the rod. The rich, the poor, ti)e 3'()ung, the old, The warm, the prudent and the cold. The widow, bride, the celibate, And lowly boi'n, and proud, and great, (Each heart with it« infirmity, •m. GOING TO CHURCH, 19 7 go into thi and west, I tustc, jr chaste, Its life to live and death to die, And bringing all its burden there) Together kneel in lowly prayei*. There are to whom the walls are dear, E'en when no festival is near, And neither bynin nor chanted psalm Nor litan}' invades the calm ; For whether loud responses roll, Or praj's inaudibly one soul, The thoui^ht is that our God is here ! He dries the lonely mourner's tear, Jle heeds the honors done Jlis Name; It is our Fatiiek's IJousc the same: From hence ascends not. piaN'cr alone, iBnt Voice of Blood of God's Own Son. $0 ON THE 1)1 V INK SERVICE. ALTAR AND TABLE. We have an Altar. — Hebrews xiii. 10. Jested in gold-cmbroidcred white, Fragrant, and tapers all ali.i!,ht. Bearing o'er all bejowellcd sign Of Triune Love, the Love Divine ; Oi* plainer Table fitly spicad, Where children kneel for Christ their Bread ; The Altar is a Table too, The Table is an Altar true ; The Lamb obi ated— eaten there, We feed where we have offered pi*ayer. Some would the Sacrifice o'er-plead. And t^ome would only over- feed : Devotion will with faith unite — To offer — feast on — Christ— aright. ,,:*ii^-' G(HXO TO riOlT ALTAR-FASTER DAT. 21 «G01XG TO IIOLr ALTAR— EASTEE DAY. \ The ffingen go ^/"/or^.— Psiilin Ixviii. 25. lite, It, Bread ; >1 • ^ HE 1 oil has coaled, no breath has stirred, yAlk § Save Ironi the vestry, faintly heaid, §^'3^ The choir i-espoiidiiii;- thrice 'Minon.' Expectant sileuec i-oii^n-^. Anl then, X/ike ^oiini] of distant waterfall, • Breaks, on the listeiiini^ ear of all. In Easter music's ^lad I'efrain, 'Telling it o'er and o'er again. Till e'en the tombs mu>t needs look gay, 'That Christ the Loud is risen to-Jay I ''Tis ocean music on the shore, A leeward shore, when ent(^rs, .swift, 'The Christian Standard borne before, A white proc<3ssion, like a drift «Of April snow that curled up high Jnto the Ch:incrl; and ihe eye WX>i^ceJ ninji* sin()! with Innovation 8ir>vo, And lost and won, hut i^a'ned — the world. A zephyr came ai^ainst the RocK Which felt not that, nor anv shock: Rut us tlio tempest might have hur^3d — The irnnf'tn hurn>aue — to s<'a. And Tiiii]: us in its .sJioit-lived u'leo. Not s >. J lis IhAy Xauie be pi'aised! Did God ordain, but men upraised 24 01^ THE DIVmE SERVICE, TVho faithfully conserved the cause Of truth and faith and righteous laws. And wrung, from chaos of the hour, A cosmos not devoid of pf)wer. And oven when we kneel to sine: These Kyiues to tiie Triune King,. And think of only Him Who died. And all our lack of love supplied. If, startled, we aie foict}d to hear The Ln,\v come thundering on our eaiv *Tis wi'll if conscience \vh;s])(M's clear, The fortified have nauii'ht to feai*. And clean confes-ion, gone before. Our minds and hearts to peace restore:: But if unshriven we have come, That ho|)e is shorn, our lips are dumb; Nor must we fasten oui- own blame On Mount that burns with livid flame, Nor yet on Mother not too blind ; Perhaps more indulgence weie less kind. The Priest hath turned him to the west, And with the L:iw hath done his best — With each command hath given space-. "For Kyrie chanted back lor grace "/ believe:' 26 Of mercy, iin'l foi* guidance right, That Love may triumph over Might \ a I BELIEVE." Oth faith. — Ephesians iv. 5. •;IIE mi' Idle of tlte Altar now ^ The Priest hath taken, lo avow S';"*r(i) Our Faith in wliat we have reccived- In all ihe Ohu'ch not I'ent believed, E e yet, for honest parties two. One c uiieil sage had ceased to do. Such Faitfi each branch letaineth still, Yet adds, ;ila> 1 whate'ei' it will, Scorns in the past alone to live, And liien>e takes it will n;)t give. Whcie angels whisper, or are dumb, If taniele s thoiigiit> unbirl Icn come, T u h on theii- wini;''> declines to r am, And in tliy conscience >e -ks its home, Itself imi>arts. by God revealed. ^6 ON THE DIVINE SERVICE. Or is denied, by llim coiicca'ed. I l)()ld that nautili exists for naught — Whence deep devotion then ? and thought Which claims eternity? And whence TheChui'ch? her history ? The sense Is this — if we will not be blind — Tiiat God hath spoken to mankind. Eeliirion is. 'Tis not denied A want there was which it supplied. But how? For if with falsehood, ill, 'T were best the Avant existed still. Then who to man the truth denied ? Transmitted falsehood who supplied ? The Priest doth '' I believe" intone, And singcth on, but not alone: For ''I believe". --Can mortal tongue The solace of the Creed — as sung By choi'istois, with organ peal That makes e'en flesh like spiiit feel — Describe unto the ear unblost That ne'er the ])i'ivilege j^ossessed To hear it thas ? Oh ! who could stand Within the Christian-soldier band, With Credo ringing in his ear. ON PREACHiyG. rt And entertain a doubt or fear, A'^- if mortality might bo A joundles^, deep, unfathomed sea, Irigultliig, in its midnight breast, Of all God's works the noblest, be^t? With priest and people well agreed, Devotion flags not through the Creed. By gesture and by tone avowed. By head at name of Jesus bowed, \^y geiiutleetions meekly made When wondrous '' Was made Man" is said, And due obeisanee not denied At " woi'shipped and glorified," And saered sign on breast displayed At '' Eesurreetion of the dead," Faith signals that her Ci-eed is sung From willing heart by willing tongue. 28 ON THE DIVINE SERVICE. OX PEE ACHING. And how shall they hear, without a preacher. — Romans x. 14. % ^ll OW invocation duly said, And text announced, he preacheth well f v'xJyVVho re'egateih lo his hend The argument alone : the swell Of feeling, and the fiery daj't Of eloquence, come from the heart. He wearier nol, nor spiaks in vain, Whose woids ai'e foicib'e and plain And not too many. Folks will >ay, ''The sermon was too shoit to-day." And yet, in fact, 'twas only good For th' appetite, like wdiolesome food. Sj wl>en " And now unto the Father," Pi'()claim< the peroration done, Each rising listener would latlier The ai'gument was but begun. E. OFFERTORY AND OBLATION, 29 —Romans x. 14. •eaclieth well )0(l. ier/ OFFERTORY AND OBLATION. And in every place, incense shall be offered unto My Name, and a Pure Offering — Mulachi i : 11. F next the Cuffers of the Krxa Arc parsed I'rom hand to hand, and ring With fitting tribute, 'lis instead Of juicy Wine and whoaten Bread — Obh\tion Pure — and to express Tiie people's greater willingness: Foi- wh:a the Sacrifice demands, Is not enough for many hands To oiler. .More each heart a-pires To give, than present nee 1 requires. Besides, the ottered Saciufice, Supported Ministry implies. And, that it reach to every door, Some kind pi'ovision for tlie poor. The gold, the silver, and the mite — The little all that dolh dclio-ht Tlie Father's Heart, and which restore 30 Oii THE DIVINE HERVWE. He will, but with it vastly more — Unto the Ci'lebrant are brought, Who humbly, by the rubric taught, Presents Iheni. So is Church jDossessed Of what hath been accepted, blessed. 'Tis quick i emoved, arid maketh way For the Oblation of the day. COMMEMOEATION OF LIVING AND DEAD. I exhort therefore, first of ally that supplications, pray- ers, intercessions, thanksf/ivings, be made for all men. — 1 Timothy ii : 1. .ND here is Intercession done For all the Church, that every one Who doth the name of Christ confess May Faith more value, and express In oneness ; and for royalty, That it may aye a blessing be. And that it plainly may be seen ■'t COMMEMORATION OF LIVING AND DEAD. 31 AND ations, pray- all men.— I J one confess To 1)0 so in our sovoreiLcn Queen ; For her whole couneil, and that they 'Who rule may lule without dismay, And still, throughout this vast domain, Religion, virtue, tirni maintain : F(n* oui* apostles, priests, that pui'e They nay in doe trine, life, endure, And ne'er the Sacraments defer, But rightly, duly minister : ^^or all the people of our God, If ]U"osperous, or 'neath the rod, |That sanetitied or comforted, Thev still may be Diviiielv led: For those in sickness specially, That timely they may succored be: For those who now in Jesus sleep. For whom God's Holy Name we bless, That lie Who kept them us may keep. And bring— with them— to happiness. And if this prayer w^ith frequent pause The Pi iest hath ottered, 'tis because He hath me:inwhile in secret pled For many living and some dead. s^*^ S2 ON THE DIVINE SERVICE. EXHORTATION AND INVITATORY. But let a man prove himself. — 1 Cor. ii. 28. fi^ITE Priest turns to us to express The zeal of Chiireh, her gentleness; '':''^vi^' Hei" wifely zeal, that naught abhorred Approaeh ihe Table of her Lord; Her mother gentleness of heart That eannot see the ehild depart: " Ye that do truly, earnestly, Eepent you of your sins, and be In bonds of love aiid ehai'ity, Intend God's holy Law to heed, And life thereto eonforined to lead ; Draw near with faiih, anil be ye fed, Eefieslied and inly eomfoited; And on your bended knees deplore rv The wound thouii'h healed that still is sore." St'BJSC'^f CORDA AND J:: ASTER PREFACE. 33 :ORY. 3. cness; abhorred ore. >> i SUESUM CORDA AND EASTER PREFACE- Li ift up your heads, ye gates, and he ye lift up, ye everlasting doorf.; and the Kin\^ of glory shall come in. — rsalm xxiv, 7. HE Priest doth now his hands upraise, ^ And bids us *' Lift" our hearts in praise ; This quick response our lips att'ord, '* We lift them up unto the Lord." He joins his hands in meek acknow Of mercies which incessant flow : *' Let us" with '' thanks" our God requite, And we respond " 'Tis meet and right." *"Tis very meet," he saith, and brings Enthusiasm as he sings Of '' right ard" " bounden duty," ours, Everywhere, with ransomed powers, And always, to the Lord our King, An offei'ing of thanks to bring. And mother Church hath here supplied A Preface meet for Easter-tide, Telling of Paschal Lamb once slain, But pjloriously raised again, Who, by His Death, did death destroy, And roso to bring us Easter joy. "Therefore with Angels," then is sung. Till " Sanctus" bursts from every tongue, And people join with priest to laud The glorious Name of Triune God : And if devotion be so strung That Benedictus doth prolong The Sanctus, 'tis no grievous wrong, Our mother's own forgotten song. And music breathing, ere it die, This strain of sweet expectancy. d4 oJf TEE DIVINU: iSEItVlCM!. "**s I'HAYER OF HUMBLE ACCESS. 3S PEAYER OF HUMBLE ACCESS. Lord, I am not uorthy — St. Matt, viii : 8. ^MIE Priest beft)rc the Altar kneeling, ''• Ilurnblc his pi'ayci*, humblei" his feeling, W^^ IMiiceth his hands to touch the Throne, And pleadeth, in an undertone, That it is not p!esuni])tion brings Him thus before the King of King*<, Witliout a righteousness to plead, Or aught beside his j)e()ple's need And his who kneeletli, trembling, there, To pi"iy acceptance of their prayer; But Majesty Divine is known For mercies that w^ill ne'er disown A penitent. And almost dumb, Because unworthy of a ciumb Beneath the Table of their Lord, And 3'et presuming at His Board, The kneeling suppliant doth crave tH l k i m imm-tU w iij 36 ON THE DIVINE SERVICE. Ilis people's pardon and his own, That (tod, who once so freely gave His Fii'st Begotten Only Son To be a Saci'itice for sin, Would let the-c penitents come in And feast upon Ihe Sacritice, That so His Body might entice E'en theirs to purity. His Blood Flow through them as a cleansing flood ; That they might dwell in Him alwaj', And He in them for aye and aye. COMMUlsriON. The Cup of Blessing ichich ive bless is /' ?iot a CommuJi' ion of the Blood of Christ f — 1 Cor. x, 16. ■g'AUTIOUS of every gesture, word and thought, I ''|Ji''' The Priest the functions o.' his office wrought. Yet faith not him but Jesu's self dis < med; Beyond him visible to outward eye, %% i A COMMt^slON. 37 t a Cornmun' word and bis office iis < rned ; Our vision pierced, and coal I the Christ do-ciy, Aflame with love oil/ hearts within us burned. We nieeklveanie who would be blest, AVith hands ungloved ci os^ed o'ei' oui* breast, Our heads in homage forward bent, And kncdl to lake the Saeiament; The choir and clergy tirst ; and then, As having prect^denee, the men ; The women last ; and each I'eceived In holl>!wed palm ihe Bread believed To be Divine ', and in both hands AVe took (the Cup such care demands) The Chalice of that pur|>le Flood AVhich issued fi-oin the Side of God. We thus leceived as from His Hand unseen AVho fee s tiie Christ Who yea rned to leed, of yoro, Thai multitude oii Galilean shore. He N'ho compas-ionatcb e ^.. ileOi that fa'nts, V,'i!l nevet- sjium tne sou's ot trusting 8aint«', Setkii'g C •mmuuion, in tai> Feast of L )ve, With those on earth -''na all the host above. 58 ON THE mviNE SERVICE. No: on the Altar of the Cross, His Heart Bleeds Himself as nourishment to impart, Lest we should faint and — fainting hy the way — Not piess to portals of Eternal Day. Oh ! Love transcending thought i the Holy Eood With Bloocl Divine sustains its famished brood — Water and Blood : howc'er theN^ left His Side, As forth they flow the Sacred Streams divide For that aworld^s baptismal Font i.pplies, And this . . . perennial Cup of Sacriiice. 11 i , >m= m •t L't, e way 3ly Eood brood — ?i Side, :livide lies, §\i$tx\\mm\$ ^^exm. EARLY ATTEMPTS. Mi i?^Ti*. i6; ( 10 ii it 8PEIXG. T was in tlie budding Spring, which had not blu.shed, Xor on her check, the time whereof I wi'ite, ssumed, as yet, those gaudy tints which rushed So quickly u^^ unto the pearly white. e Winter had just fled. Its winds were hushed, Or, loit'ring under Heaven's milder light hich had supplanted now its wintry glare, ey bore the fragrant breath of flowers there. Pc earth seemed burdened by its happiness, JTho o;rowinggreennesB of its full breast sighed; (le phmts themselves seemed plaintive to excess, lj\i:w, unto ling'ring zephyrs, did conflde Wliate'cr such tender murm'ring might express, Forchance the deep complainings of a bride Wh"se mate had been untimely plucked froni thence, In ii> lair growth, which was for her defence. ^ 42 EARLY ATTEMPTS And living nature, how it Joyed and sang, And wantoned in the light and in the shade ! With warbling merriment the whole earth raii<: For, in their flight, ethorial songsters staid, And came to earth. From thence they iipwar: sprang. Of human footsteps cautiously afraid, And peopled cottage roof and creaking vane. Then flew. The world is part of their domain The gairish girl — herself within the bud, So mystic, soft, and delicately pure, Which had not blossomed yet, of womanhood- At intervals was merry or demure ; For there was much she could not, much she con y^ Unravel of those beauties which allure The gazer's eye who looks on Spring's fair pri Of animals that play and streams that glide. Tfa, Ofi Wi :•! Such season 'twas as I have written here, On such a day as I have tried to tell, With such phenomena as, much I fear. How e'er my words upon the theme might d^r Aa I am inadequate to make appear Upon this paper nearly half bo well ^SPBIiYO. 43 ic shade 1 arth vai\L' rs stakl, ey up'war: lid, ng vano. i'lv domain bud, )TnaTiliood- e; ich Bbo coil allure g's fair pr'. lat glide. n here, tell, fear, e might d^^ well Ae, nn ler Heaven's all-creative Hand, They were displayed on ocean and on land. Jjetitia, only in her sixteenth year, Looked forth on hillside green and verdantvale, And saw each beauteous work of God appear In its unsullied birth — Why should she fail To imbibe the passion of a smile and tear — The passion which hath but an olden tale Of grief and happiness — the passion love — "Which they most envy who the most reprove ? Within her maiden, soft and lonely breast, An unawakened nature merely dreamed, With eyedids half up- lifted in unrest, AVhich would have oj^ened wholly had they deemed The power theirs to make a mortal blest : But on Letitia's heart no ray had gleamed Of love's bewitching sun; 'twould almost yawn, With its first strange presentiment of dawn. ABd yet a stranger's eye kad gazed on her, Had drawn a transient lustre hois, her own. Hifi heart had felt unable to aver The reason why it seemed quite alone, 44 I'lAULY ATTEMPTS. Without a voice whicli could a moment stir Its mopisliness to life, since she had flown, As 'twere, athwart his vision, leaving dark The blinded gaze just touched by beauty's spar " Yes, we have only met that w^e may part, As now forever, each to each unknown, And to the end that one ill-fated heart May have a fresh event whereof to groan. Thou transient image ! oh how fair thou art I I w^ould have spoken but that thou wast ilo^v Forever flown, wdiile yet each thought in me Was mute for joy of having gazed on thee." Montreal, May, 1857. At Ah Aid i A CLEAR DAY IN SUMMER. T God's command, the healthful air. E By lightnings purged, bestow^s on tlo^^ ^\f The spring-like fi-eshness that they ^v^ At God's command the earth is fair And smiling through her summer hour Bit Am •I ('LEAR 1>AY IN tiUJIAfA'L'. 43 at bill- d flown, r dark tity's sv^i- ly part, lONvn, irt Q pjroan. thou art ' u\vastlio^v crht in me on tlicc." LMEB. IthM aiiv tows on tlo^^ liattbey^^' tiir mmev b*>tir The ocean ceaseth to be wrath ; Arul, mullleJ as the gates of Death, In deep profundity of aw^e, Scarce answers to the passing breath Of wind. As when of old it saw Itself upraised, to leave a path Tliroughout its midst, with placid brow, So looks the ocean unto God and worshij^s now. The voices of the earth and sea, The many voices of the air. In chorus all, for praise and prayer, Ascend in blest monotony. Alas ! there is a silent lute Which giveth not a thankful sound : Alas! for only man is mute : And ho for whom the sea is bound Unto the shore the wide world round ; For whom the light of day w\as given; For whom the flowers deck the ground — His lute, and only his, is riven, And hath no song of gratitude to send to Heaven. Halifax, August, 1858. "' ' "'' "" "' 46 £A RL Y A TTEMPTS. NIGHTS IN THE WOOD. I. IS night and, far from slielt'ring roo: I lay me down on brush-made bed, In groves through which no iron ho Nor white man's form, till now, hath sped. On yonder rock my Micmac guide Sits gazing up into the sky : •' There warrioi* chiefs in bliss abide, Inglorious here their children die." m Biit dot Our blazing Are crackles yet, The glitt'ring sparks ascend full high ; For three sworn friends an ,nd this Micmac Tha TV Km St y c Shot' guide met,- Hie I- Slept The moon is shining on the lake, And beasts are prowling through the woo. ffis Iff The partridge hides in yonder brake — ^ And this is forest solitude. MGHTS ly Till': woof). 47 D. U'ring voo; -iivade l»c*i. no ii'on li" uith sped. \^^ e. 5» higb ; tre met,- Lud I. TI. tlio moon's yellow li.i^ht, which fell "On the l)lo;ik barren where he stood And listened for the distant yell 'Of prowlini^ l)easts, the hunter viewed A far extendin<^ lake: its mood ll|as calm ; and so supremely still, 5rhat often he his gaze renewed ; !< all was peaceful, save a rill dOBc by that mui-murcd down the hill. That night he slept more sound than ye Who never left your beds of down. NtU'sed in the laj) of Luxury, Stalled in the fumy marts of town, Ye envy not his j)Oor renown Who scorns your tinsel and 3'our show: The hunter on his bed lay down. His bed of S])ruce and tir, and so Slept sweetly where the wild weed [^row. His sheets were not of linen white, rh the woo. -g^ needed not a minstrel's aid, lake— ^or yet to pore o'er reading light, 48 To chaBO a^vay nomo spectral shade ; 15«t in his hvushy bed ho st» Of Heaven. -L^^^^*^ ^^'"^ WcUhigW, 1855. INDIAN DIEGE. i 1 1^ +v»vniicrli sylvan sliaii l^^K iocK:y n 5 crystal ^vs rrun streamlet hoias n^ ^ j , ■^ ^ yr. md glad lay, 1 pine, I free : are wild, Liie, tain high, mdcst chiM ^ ::i\Mj: 7ir//' child rc^n nau^lii pervades but ^'loom, Unroll, O Kiirtli ! the hipse of years, And let the ])aHt be pa.st away : iiliciou.sly fi'oni yonder tomb I See ye how Cultivation sneers? :| Our sire's blood enriched that clay. jibove us, Death's tyrannic hand. Has long been brandish'd, full in view, To strike us whence we deem our own, d (aliens though in Fatherland) Lo, e'en our still remaining few Must soon be dwindled into none ! Well inj ton, 1855. ^»i~f,'ii^ii-:38b.^a^ -ifi'i-. -iiiii-iMiii-ia^iifiiiiii...iatt.iMilifitt .50 EARLY ATTEMPTS 1 ; VOICE OF THE COMET. Whilst the comet of 837 (which, according to De Sejoiir continued during 24 hours within a distance of 5,000,000 miles from the earth,) terrified Louis I., of France to that degree, that he busied himaelf in building churches and founding monastic establishments, in the hope of appeasing the eviU threatened b}' its appearance. The Chinese astronomen made observations on the path of this cosmical body, whose tail extended over a space of 60 ® , appcaring'sometimes sin^it and sometimes multiple. — Humbolfs Cosmos^ Vol. l.^p. 64. WAJSTDEEEE on high, I flash the planets by, f I leave their occupants to guess my namt They know the heavens well — Of me they cannot tell Whither I journey on, or whence I came. As I approach they fear ; As I recede they jeer Each other's weakness ; as if even they Were innocent of awe, Or knew the hidden law Which guides a comet on its errant way. VOICE OF THE COMET, 51 to De Sejoiir ,000,000 mile! ) that deg:ree, md founding sing the evih' astronomers I body, whose ' metimes sin;^le 3S my name 3ame. hey way. Upon an orb called Earth, Children of God, whose birth [g in a mystical mortality, Beheld me, as a bride. Sit shining at the side »f the resplendent Sun 1 — then what was I ? The harbinger of wrath, I bore upon my path ulfilment to the prophecy of Fear! I E'en grey -haired Learning shook, J And, with an alter'd look, Behold me bringing retribution near. I saw whole nations bowed With apprehensions crowd to their graveyards, unto viewless Death ! I saw his tainted child — Corruption — almost wild pon the kingdom of dethroned Breath. I saw the crown 'd thing Earth's people name a king, Igk vulgar terror — raising unto Gob Temple and sacrifice, ; !-■ .1^. .t.ij^;.';. jiaiiu».-Jtjii— j-'.-j-s^.'-'-j"^ ■ idriMitiT'ii 1 ! Oii EARLY ATTEMPTS. As though by such device He might avert the just and angry rod. The wise of ev'ry age, The student and the sage, Have written that I am o mystery : They murmur of . " star With fiery streaming hair,'^ And of a ^^ flaming sword^'' — still what am I ? wm TO E. T. M. On her heing deprived of her hearing. (HE world is silenced, lips but fain t speak, And smiles are meaningless; the blii^l ing cheek, What hath it heard, to heighten thus its glow: 'T is stillness reigns ! — around — above — below TO K. T. A/. am I ? anng. but fain t \\ the blibl L8 its glow ve — below. >o4 EARLY ATTEMPTS. TO THE SAMPl On her Becovery, ^OW Heaven, for thy sake^ The silent spell doth break ; And strangely on thine almost startled] ear, Back comes the voice of love ; And melodies above The choicost music thou wast wont to hear Float newly on each passing breeze. Or through the waving branches issue from the; trees. With bliss thy heart is filled ; Each word therein instilled Is sweeter than to others unto thee : It is a second birth To know that power's worth Which was a captive once and now is free The bud of hope hath bloom'd so bright, All redolent with recollection and delighl TO E. T. U. oS st startled Qt to hear. e from the thee low is free 5ht, iighL We bless thy blushing cheek . [And eyes, when they bespeak With smiles the recognition of a word, )0 pleasantly they tell, Jo truthfully and well, That all which we have spoken thou hast heard: JTis this which makes our spirits gay, 'Tis this which turns our doubt and darkness into day. iWe should this morn upraise A sacred song of praise To Him Who, though the Angels waiting » stand, Hath not forgotten thee: 'Twere better deaf to bo Than cured, if still not grateful to the ' 3Isjad ^^hich hath, with love and skill, prepared JThemedicineof earnest prayer and faith's re ward. Montreal, 1858. :-^-t-.:;j;.,-,..^..£'>-:-.--..:^i-a=-,..-v:iAi.i..; v.vt^^^^ ■.-.-■ ;«j..art...i>:5a r)6 KARL Y A TTEMPTti. EESTOEEE OF THE ERIiING ESTOREE of the erring I Light of the strayed ! Down on her knees. O Jesu [ Comes a poor maid. Sad is her history, Soon is it told, Warm was one heart to her ^nd the woj*ld cold. No friend hath she now nearer, Lord ! than art Thou ; -And if one once was dearer, None is so now. Oh ! speak the word. Lord ! only, ^* Peace. Be forgiven," And bid her, when earth chides her Dare look to Heaven, I Irfl :t THE DESERTED. r^l THE DESEETED. SLEXDEE form goes through the room, ller steps uncertain ; and her soul ,j, ,^,y Seems filled witli an immortal gloom, Beyond her mind's control. 'Tis but a year since she was sprightly ; Her feet scarce touched the russet floor, As once she bounded forward lightly And answered to the door. Some say her heart was then cemented Unto another's harder heart. And that, when his its love repented, Her own broke right apart. " A foolish tale of childish love," I hear one half the world reply ; And all the sages will repi'ove My story as a lie. ■-.-r', j.'i., .,[,.?. ;i..;.,^;.;y..'.)' ;.iij :.^-\.i;:^j-^ vL:.,:rg^.-^.:^■::»^g:.^:^Jai"-»■'^'■^^B^^^^il^^;p^;'gy jti' ! t'l i' 5