The Sacred Offering; A Poetical Gift (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1838. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... AFTER THE DEATH OF A FRIEND, AND ADDRESSED TO HER CHILDREN. Is she withdrawn from earth, Whose sunny smile of joy, and kindly tone, DEGREESKindled up gladness round QieTiousehold i hearth? 1 Are these all gone? Will she no more be seen? Never more present at the social board, Where flowed benignly, from her lip serene, Each gentle word? Friend parent can it be That she, from all who held her dear, is taken? While mournfully her sorrowing children see Her place forsaken? When fond and sanguine trust, In fair perspective, sketched her lengthened years, How soon to mark their promise laid in dust, And quenched in tears O cherished dream of bliss Binding our natures in thy mystic spell, And in thy essence spiritual, is this Thy last farewell? Sad and unholy thought The spark of life, immortal, cannot die. Praise be to Him, whose blood the treasure bought, And gave the victory. The victory over death -- Triumphant resurrection from the grave. Take, then, O heaven what we resign, in faith That He can save. Yet I would bid ye weep But not as those from final hope who sever. For when the archangel's voice shall burst her sleep, You meet for ever. LIFE'S CHANGES. I Saw the waters, as bright they lay, In the lovely calm of a summer day; The fair blue sky shone clear above, All nature breathed of peace and love; And near me there were radiant eyes, As calm and clear as those summer skies. And gladly I gazed on the flowing tide, For those I loved were at my side; The sun in glory and splendor shone, And proudly the vessel glided on; And softly the distant landscape played, In its varying hues of light and shade. And my heart was blest: short time past by, And again did the white-winged vessel fly On the evening gale, and I was there; But, alas the scene was no longer fair. Th...