Monthly Packet (Volume 32) (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.1868 Excerpt: ... Simeon in his arms at length Beareth Israel's Hope and Strength. By the Saviour's power out-poured, Wine from water-pots hath come; Sight is to the blind restored, Feet to lame, and voice to dumb. None other unto us is given, Than God the Son, the King of Heaven. So let the courts celestial sing The praise of their exalted King. Amen. A NEW-YEAR'S PAPER. ON WISHING TO BE YOUNG AGAIN. 'Would you be young again? So would not I--One tear to memory given, Onward I'd hie. Life's dark flood forded o'er, Atl but at rest on shore, Say, would yon plunge once more, With home so nigh? 'If you might, would you now Retrace your way? Wander through stormy wilds. Faint and astray? Night's gloomy watches fled, Morning all beaming red, Hope's smiles around us shed, Heavenward--away. 'Where, then, are those dear ones, Our joy and delight? Dear and more dear though now Hidden from sight. 'Where they rejoice to be, There is the land for me; Ply, time, fly speedily; Come, life and light.' I Mill/ Nairn. Some of the readers of The Monthly Packet are probably acquainted with the above lines, and know something respecting the character of the good and beneficent woman who wrote them. See The Monthly Packet, July, 1867. My own particular object in recurring to them at this season is partly because the thoughts they suggest seem to me suitable to a New Year, and partly because I have been led to know, in consequence of an enlarged circulation which has been given to the lines in question, that there are considerable differences in the degree of assent given to Lady Nairn's summary decision in the first two of them: and these.differences interest me, and may interest our readers. There is great unanimity in the feeling of admiration for the little poem itself, and the spirit of its ...