Sacred Harmony; The Best Poetical Pieces of the Most Eminent Christian Poets and Writers of England and America (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...the forest walks. Beneath th' umhrageous multitude of leaves. AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE SEA." I Ieck thy shores, tumultuous Ocean To gaie and think an hour shall come When thou, with all thy wild commotion, Shalt he for onee--and ever dumh. And there thy storms shall never jar. When those that vex the human hreast, Than thine more wild--more angry far--Ai sunk to long and endless rest And there no more shall smile thy hillow, When threatening winds have hnah'd their hreath, And, smooth as childhood's eradle pillow, Entice its fated prey to death: ---In that hlest laud the serpent, Guile, Ashamed, shall veil her eyes and flee; Nor falsehood's mask, nor treacherous wile, Live where ' there shall he no more sea." For oh where tides of Love and Sorrow, Where passion's waves are calm'd and o'er--Where change is none from night to morrow--'Tis meet that thou shouldst he no more. And when against the rock-like hreast. Temptation-proof mid floods of pain, Afflietion's hillows rear their erest, And spend their wrath--no--ne'er again: And when along life's stormy water There needs no polar-star to hurn, No toreh of Hope--God's loveliest daughter, To paint the weary hark's return; For nre-refined, in pristine youth Our Phoenix-earth renewed shall he, --But lips which caunot hreathe untruth Have said--"There shall he no more seal" Oh then thy tides, remorseless deep Twixt faithful hearts will roll no more--No longer sorrow roam and weep Along thy wild unfriendly shore--No longer watch in tearless woe The lessening sail, --a last look giving To all tint hrighten'd earth helow--To all that made life worth the living. And then no more shall Hope emhark Her treasures on the uneertain main, To view the waves engulf her ark, Ah ne'er to yield it forth...