Introits; Or, Ante-Communion Psalms for the Sundays and Holy-Days Throughout the Year [By J.H. Alexander]. (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (SHuinquage0tma. PSALM XXVI. Sweet voices and calm shades, that float (Blended with wood-notes wild) Around the simple, sacred spot Of worship undefil'd: Fit consorts for what stirs within, ? A trembling Love and true, that lowly, Heaven will win If wearied by this world's assault, Or wounded in the strife; Where better can the warrior halt To find a newer life? ? From those bold, bloody men apart, Whose hand is full of bribes, and mischief in their heart.Lord I have loved such holy fanes, Thy dwelling-places yet: Where I may wash me from the stains That pride or fear beget; And, at thine altar-foot, may taste Companionship denied to this world's howling waste. Keep me, then, in this safest ward In mine integrity; ?My distant feet, with kind regard, From sin and danger free: So strengthening vhat breathes within, ? A trembling Love and true, that longs but Heaven to PSALM VI. O Lord, rebuke me not in Thy fierce wrath, Tho' wandering from thy path; Nor chasten me in thy displeasure sore, As if all hope was o'er: Who can be thankful more In this sad pit, or worship Thee in Death ? Have mercy, Lord, upon thy creature weak, Who would thy service seek; Nor, from my troubled soul and purpose frail, Let thy sure mercies fail: How long, behind a veil Is thy face hid, for all my suffering meek? When far from Thee, each pleasant haunt is lone, And echoes but the tone Of my lament; and, through the dreary night, Tears mark the sad hours' flight: While each fresh morning-light O'er my pale cheek, but wakes a weary groan Lord only Thou canst sanctify this gloom, And lead me thro' it, home: Thou, from the Desert of thine own high Fast, (Where deeper shades were cast) Wilt hear my voice at l...