Of faith, of hope, of judgment, in a world

To come-of light and life beyond the grave.
So Athens, Corinth, Macedonia,* heard

The tidings of salvation. Hark! the sound
Is gone forth to all lands: the glorious light
Extends the light of faith, and hope, and joy-
The light from Heav'n, whilst He, so falsely call'd,
The GOD OF DAY,† shorn of his golden hair,

And rays of morn, shall leave his Delphian shrine,
Discomfited, and hide his head in night.

The day-spring of Heav'n's purer light hath

reach'd

IMPERIAL ROME: the Tyrant,‡ on his throne, Starts at his voice, the famish'd lion springs

And crashes the pale martyr at his feet,

* Philippi and Thessalonica, in Macedonia.

+ Grecian Apollo.

Nero.

While the vast Amphitheatre is hush'd,

And not a sound heard through the multitude,
But that dire crash, and the breath inly drawn,

The moment it is heard-from the still throng Shuddering; the blood streams from the lion's beard

Whilst that vast, breathless amphitheatre
Bursts into instant thunders, to the skies.
But not the lion, with blood-matted mane,
Nor the fierce fires about the martyr's stake,
With rolling smoke, that the winds warp away
In surges, when the miserable man,

Blacken'd and half-consum'd appears;-not these,
Nor famine, nor the sword, nor Death, nor Hell,
Shall move the Christian's heart or hope, or fray
Him, stedfast and victorious, tho' he die.

Farther, and farther yet, the light is spread :* * See that most interesting chapter in Iræneus, descriptive of

And THOU hast liv'd to see this gospel-dawn

Kindling from Asia, like a beacon flame

Thro' darkness-Oh! more cheering than the morn,

With all its lovely hues, on sea, or shore,

As now it shines around us.

John replied

"Teacher of wisdom, or from heav'n or earth,

"We know that Paul, our brother in the faith,

"Proclaim'd the tidings of HIM CRUCIFIED

"From Rome to Spain; but PAUL is in his grave:

"Soon must I follow him, and be at rest:

"Who then shall bear these tidings of great joy,

"To all the people of all lands?"

STRANGER.

That BOOK,

Which the Lamb open'd-as a "flying roll,"

the progress of the Gospel to the Celts, and to the "extre"mities of the earth."

Angels of Light shall bear, with wings unseen,

From shore to shore; and thus, tho' Paul be dead, He still shall speak, and millions, yet unborn,

Shall bless the boon. THOU shalt reveal the things

Which thou hast seen, but that same book, which

none

In heav'n or earth could open, but the Lamb,

None but the Lamb shall close:

Awake! awake!

Ye, who now slumber in the shades of death.

Yes! ev'ry nation shall confess the Lord;

Till all shall be fulfill'd, and there shall be,

Thro' the wide world "6 ONE SHEPHERD AND ONE

"FOLD."

For deem not this small frith, call'd "the great sea,'

That girds yon promontories, girds the world—

Without is the great ocean-the main sea,
Rocking in tempest and in solitude;

* Mediterranean.

E

Ten thousand isles are scatter'd o'er the waste Of those dark waters; and each isle and landALL EARTH-shall be one altar, and from earth To heav'n, one flame of incense, and one voice Of pray'r, and praise, and harmony shall rise!

So these two held communion on the shore
Of melancholy Patmos, when a sound

As of a griding chain was heard, and lo!
A criminal is kneeling at the feet

Of the old man: "God has been kind to me,' He cried, and hid his forehead with his hands. "Oh! listen to my tale, and pray for me. ""Twas when the Roman centinel, who pac'd "The platform of the dungeon where we slept, "Had call'd the midnight watch, and overhead "Bright Aldebaran held his course in heav'n, "West'ring o'er yonder Cape-I wak'd, and mus’d "On my eventful life.