The Arts come smiling in the close, The marble breathes, the canvass glows, "Still may my melting bosom cleave So Pity shall take Virtue's part, And fashioning my soften'd heart, This artless vow may Heaven receive, . So may the rosy-finger'd hours And suns to come, as round they wheel, With all a tender heart can feel, I. OLNEY HYMNS. WALKING WITH GOD. Gen. v. 24. OH! for a closer walk with God; A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! Return, O holy Dove, return, I hate the sins that made thee mourn, The dearest idol I have known, Help me to tear it from thy throne, So shall my walk be close with God, II. JEHOVAH-JIREH. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE. THE saints should never be dismay'd, For when they least expect his aid, The Saviour will appear. This Abraham found: he raised the knife; Yon ram shall yield his meaner life ; Behold the victim there." Once David seem'd Saul's certain prey; But hark! the foe's at hand'; Saul turns his arms another way, To save the invaded land. When Jonah sunk beneath the wave, But God prepared a fish to save, 1 1 Sam. xxiii. 27. 2 Jonah, i. 17. Blest proofs of power and grace divine, Wait for his seasonable aid, III. JEHOVAH-ROPHI. I AM THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE. Exod. xv. 26. HEAL us, Emmanuel! here we are, Our faith is feeble, we confess, Remember him who once applied, She too, who touch'd thee in the press, Was answer'd, "Daughter, go in peace*, Conceal'd amid the gathering throng, Like her, with hopes and fears we come, Oh! send us not despairing home! Mark, ix. 24. 4 Mark, v. 34. |