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The cricket on the lady-bird
Makes a passing call,
Drops of crystal water

Furnish drink for all.

CHORUS: Wine's, &c.

The lily and the daisy,

Sun-burnt in the field,

Had no parasol of leaves
Their purity to shield;

So sunlight dropp'd its cloud-veil,

And rain began to fall,
Drops of crystal water

Soon reviv'd them all.

CHORUS: Wine's, &c.

Corn that gilded acres,

The clover, and the grass,
Cowslips that the children
Gather as they pass;

The primrose in the green lane,
The berry on the sloe,
Drops of crystal water

Cause them all to grow,

CHORUS: Wine's, &c.

Drops of crystal water

Form the running rills,
Where the cress is growing

By the brambled hills ;
Oceans vast and boundless,

Rivers wide and far,

Drops of crystal water

Make them what they are.

CHORUS: Wine's, &c.

GOD'S WAYS ARE BEST.

IN the joys of careless infancy,
Basked a young and lovely child;
And its lustrous eyes told truthfully,
That bliss its hours beguiled.

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But ah, his own twin sister lay
In death's embraces prest,

And as that loved one passed away,
He cried, "God's ways are best."
Oh, may we thus more meekly bend,
Beneath the stern behest,
And with each sorrow calmly blend,
This truth, "God's ways are best."

WATERS OF MARAH.

By Marah's stream of bitterness,
When Moses stood and cried,
Jehovah heard his fervent prayer,
And instant help supplied:
The prophet sought the precious tree
With prompt obedient feet;
'Twas cast into the fount, and made
The bitter waters sweet.

Whene'er affliction o'er thee sheds
Its influence malign,

Then, sufferer, be the prophet's prayer
And prompt obedience thine:
'Tis but a Marah's fount ordain'd
Thy faith in God to prove,
And prayer and resignation shall
Its bitterness remove.

JESUS.

HE is a path, if any be misled;

He is a robe, if any naked be;

If

any chance to hunger, he is bread;

If any be a bondman, he is free;

If any be but weak, how strong is he!

To dead men life he is, to sick men health;

To blind men sight, and to the needy wealth: A pleasure without loss, a treasure without stealth.

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