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THY WAY, NOT MINE.

Take thou my cup, and it
With joy or sorrow fill,
As best to thee may seem;

Choose thou my good and ill.

Choose thou for me my friends,
My sickness or my health,
Choose thou my cares for me,
My poverty or wealth.

Not mine, not mine the choice,
In things or great or small;
Be thou my guide, my strength,
My wisdom, and my all.

ALLELUIA.

(FROM THE LATIN.)

ALLELUIA, Alleluia!

The battle now is done,

The victory is won;

Let us joy and sing

Alleluia !

Alleluia, Alleluia !

Suffering death's cruel doom,

Jesus hath hell overcome;

Let us praise and shout

Alleluia !

Alleluia, Alleluia !

He rose the third day, bright

In heavenly love and light;

Let us cry and chant

Alleluia !

Alleluia, Alleluia !

Closed are the gates below,

Heaven's halls are open now;
Let us joy and sing

Alleluia!

Alleluia, Alleluia !

Jesus, by thy wounds, save

Us from the endless grave,

That we may live and sing

Alleluia! *

*I give the first stanza of the above hymn as a specimen:

Alleluia, Alleluia!

Finita jam sunt prælia,
Est parta jam victoria,
Gaudeamus et canamus,
Alleluia !

LIVE.

MAKE haste, O man, to live,

For thou so soon must die;

Time hurries past thee like the breeze;
How swift its moments fly.

Make haste, O man, to live!

To breathe, and wake, and sleep,
To smile, to sigh, to grieve;
To move in idleness through earth,

This, this is not to live!

Make haste, O man, to live!

Make haste, O man, to do

Whatever must be done;

Thou hast no time to lose in sloth,

Thy day will soon be gone.

Make haste, O man, to live!

Up then with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away;

This is no time for thee to sleep,
Up, watch, and work and pray!

Make haste, O man, to live!

The useful, not the great,

The thing that never dies;

The silent toil that is not lost,-
Set these before thine eyes.

Make haste, O man, to live!

The seed, whose leaf and flower,
Though poor in human sight,
Brings forth at last the eternal fruit,
Sow thou by day and night.

Make haste, O man, to live!

Make haste, O man, to live,
Thy time is almost o'er;

O sleep not, dream not, but arise,

The Judge is at the door.

Make haste, O man, to live!