So shall the day, we call the last,
Arrive when most are sleeping fast.
Since none the time can safely say,
Let us be watching night and day;
And, like the prudent virgins, stand,
Each with a lamp prepared in hand.

END OF THE FIRST BOOK.

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THE

VICAR OF LLANDOVERY.

BOOK II.

Subject of the Second Book.

The poems in this book relate to PRACTICAL PIETY, and are partly descriptive and partly hortatory. They are, in some measure, adapted to persons in every situation and condition of life ; but particularly to those, whose influence and example ought to guide others "in the way of righteousness." In this view, the poems on Family Religion, Public Worship, and the Observation of the Lord's Day, demand particular attention.

THE

VICAR OF LLANDOVERY.

BOOK II.

YOUTH EXHORTED TO BE RELIGIOUS.

REMEMBER, in the bloom of youth,

To serve the Lord thy God in truth;
Thy great Creator now adore,

Since days of grace may soon be o'er.
Begin, ere thou dost older grow,
Thy Saviour and thy God to know;
His statutes keep, his word desire,
And solid wisdom thus acquire.
Thy vessel, whilst it yet is new,
In faith's sweet liquor well imbue ;
So shall a choice perfume attend
Thy virtuous life unto its end.
Deep in thy youthful bosom place
The seeds of every christian grace;
K