Plain Rhymes for Plain People (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. 1866 Excerpt: ...Those sacred eyelids try--The inmost depths untold. Of all beneath the sky. And none that doeth good, Not one whose hands are clean, Before His face hath stood, Amid the spreading scene. The plague spot of the soul Is rooted deep within: Nor weave we garments whole, That can conceal our sin. Not till the house of clay-Is wholly taken down, Can any truly say--The leprosy has flown. Then, like the living bird, Dipp'd in the crimson stream, The spirit's wings are stirr'd, To rise in glory's beam. See where the Great High Priest The offering has pour'd; And guilty souls released, Are welcome to the Lord No. 9.--THE SCAPE-GOAT. God of patience God of grace Sweet it is to see Thy face Shining on thine ancient race. "Israel is an empty vine," Yet thou givest "line on line," Teaching them the things divine. Living pictures were Thy voice--To the people of Thy choice--We behold them and rejoice. Now two goats arrest the eye; One to suffer and to die, One to range at liberty. Sinless victims ye are there, Burdens of one load to bear; Guilty man's o'erwhelming share. And it pleased the Lord to bruise Him, whom He alone would choose, Till there fell death's clammy dews. But the living bursts away, Freely in the face of day--Like a shade that will not stay. Surely He hath borne our grief, And our sorrows shall be brief, Finding such a sure relief. Our iniquities we own, Laid upon His head alone, Pleading blood which can atone. Yet around there softly floats Breath of sweet celestial notes, "Not the blood of bulls or goatsl" No. 10.--THE PROMISED LAND. Let us stand, as it were, by Moses; And attend to his words, inspired, While he speaks of "the land of promise," And the things to be there required. "When ye come to that g...