Ah! return, and love me ftill; See me subject to thy will; Frown with wrath, or smile with grace, Only let me fee thy face! Evil I have none to fear, All is good, if Thou art near. Yet he leaves me-cruel fate! Be not angry; I refign, All is right that thou wilt do. This was just what Love intended, Love return'd to me and smiled: Never ftrife shall more betide 'Twixt the Bridegroom and his Bride. 6. A CHILD OF GOD LONGING TO SEE HIM BELOVED. HERE'S not an echo round me, The rocks receive less proudly I speak to them of sadness, They bid me look for gladness, Far from all habitation, My grief has no alloy;" The rocks replied-" To-morrow, These sweet and fecret tidings, I fly to scenes romantic, For riot and confufion They barter things above; Condemning, as delufion, The joy of perfect love. In this fequefter'd corner, None hears what I exprefs; Deliver'd from the fcorner, What peace do I poffefs! Beneath the boughs reclining Or roving o'er the wild, I live as undefigning And harmless as a child. No troubles here surprise me, I innocently play, While Providence fupplies me, And guards me all the day: My dear and kind defender Preferves me fafely here, From men of pomp and fplendour, Who fill a child with fear. 7. ASPIRATIONS OF THE SOUL Y Spouse! in whofe prefence I live, Who know'ft what a flame I conceive, And canft easily double its fires; How pleasant is all that I meet! Transported I fee thee display Thy riches and glory divine; For thou art as faithful as ftrong; My fpirit and faculties fail; Oh finish what love has begun! Destroy what is finful and frail, And dwell in the foul thou haft won! Dear theme of my wonder and praise, I cry, who is worthy as Thou! I can only be filent and gaze: 'Tis all that is left to me now. Oh glory in which I am lost, Too deep for the plummet of thought; On an ocean of Deity tofs'd, I am swallow'd, I fink into nought. I chant to the praise of my King; 8. GRATITUDE AND LOVE TO GOD. LL are indebted much to thee, But I far more than all, From many a deadly fnare fet free, What bonds of gratitude I feel To return thee Love for Love? |