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The Nightingalegume 1869.

[L. M.] TUNE- See Kingsley's S. Choir, vol. 1, p. 88.

WHEN twilight's gray and pensive hour
Brings the low breeze, and shuts the flower,
And bids the solitary star

Shine in pale beauty from afar ;

2 When gathering shades the landscape veil,
And peasants seek their village-dale,
And mists from river-wave arise,
And dew in every blossom lies;

3 At that calm hour, so still, so pale,
Awakes the lonely nightingale ;
And from a hermitage of shade,
Fills with her voice the forest-glade.

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The Autumn Evening, June 10 ES9

TUNE-"Clarendon."

1 BEHOLD the western evening light!
It melts in deepening gloom;
So calmly Christians sink away,
Descending to the tomb.

Phillips."

2 The winds breathe low, the withering leaf
Scarce whispers from the tree;
So gently flows the parting breath,
When good men cease to be.

3 How mildly on the wandering cloud,
The sunset beam is cast!

"T is like the memory left behind,

When loved ones breathe their last.

4 And now, above the dews of night,
The yellow star appears;

So faith springs in the hearts of those
Whose eyes are bathed in tears.

5 But soon the morning's happier light,
Its glories shall restore:

And eyelids that are sealed in death,
Shall ope to close no more.

[10s & 11s.]

PEABODY.

och 185-8

TUNE-"Folsom."

Star of the East. Nour

1 BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid; Star of the east, the horizon adorning,

Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

2 Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining, Low lies his head with the beasts of the stall;

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5 It may be that the waft of love

Some leaves on that pure tide hath driven,
Which passing from the shores above

Hath floated down to us from heaven.

6 So shall thy wants and woes be healed,
By the blest influence they bring,
So thy parched lips shall be unsealed,
Thy Saviour's worthy name to sing.

Invitation to Prayer.

[11s & 10s.] TUNE-"Come ye disconsolate." 1 COME ye disconsolate, where'er you languish; Come, at the shrine of God, fervently kneel; Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish ;

"Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

2 Joy of the comfortless, light of the straying, Hope when all others die, fadeless and pure; Here speaks the Comforter, in God's name saying, "Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot cure.' ANON.

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Aspiration for Heaven.

TUNE-"Elliot," by Mehul.

1 THE bird let loose in eastern skies,
When hastening fondly home,

Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam.

But high she shoots through air and light,

Above all low delay,

Where nothing earthly bounds her flight.

Nor shadows dim her way.