THE NURSERY GARLAND. OBEDIENCE TO PARENTS. LET children that would fear the Lord Have you not heard what dreadful plagues To him that breaks his father's law, What heavy guilt upon him lies! The ravens fhall pick out his eyes, B But those who worthip God, and give Here on this earth they long fhall live, And live hereafter too. WATTS DUTY TO GOD AND OUR NEIGHBOUR. LOVE God with all your soul and strength, Deal with another as you'd have Another deal with you; What your're unwilling to receive, Be fure you never do. WATTS. THE ADVANTAGES OF EARLY HAPPY the child whose tender years Who hates the finner's path, and fears The road that leads to hell. When we devote our youth to God, 'Tis easier work, if we begin 'Twill fave us from a thousand fnares,, To thee, almighty God, to thee, Our childhood we refign; 'Twill please us to look back and fee That our whole lives were thine. Let the fweet work of pray'r and praise Thus I'm prepar'd for longer days, WATTS. LOVE BETWEEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. WHATEVER brawls difturb the street, Where fifters dwell, and brothers meet, Birds in their little nefts agree; Hard nanies at first, and threat'ning words, That are but noify breath, May grow to clubs and naked fwords, To murder and to death. The devil tempts one mother's fon So wicked Cain was hurried on The wife will make their anger cool, But in the bofom of a fool It burns till morning light. Pardon, O Lord, our childish rage, That as we grow to riper age, Our hearts may all be love. JOM WATTS. TRUE BEAUTYM on ALE WHAT is the blooming tincture of the fkin, 1 GAT. SONNET, TO CHARITY. DAUGHTER of Heav'n fublime! thou ray of God, |