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NURSERY GARLAND.

OBEDIENCE TO PARENTS.

LET children that would fear the Lord
Hear what their teachers fay;
With rev'rence meet their parents word,
And with delight obey.

Have you not heard what dreadful plagues
Are threaten'd by the Lord,

To him that breaks his father's law,
Or mocks his mother's word?

What heavy guilt upon him lies!
How curfed is his name!

The ravens fhall pick out his eyes,
And eagles eat the fame.

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But those who worthip God, and give
Their parents honours due,

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,
With all your heart and mind;
And love your neighbour as yourself;
Be faithful, juft, and kind.

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
RELIGION.

HAPPY the child whose tender years
Receive inftructions well;

Who hates the finner's path, and fears

The road that leads to hell.

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When we devote our youth to God,
'Tis pleafing in his eyes;
A flower, when offer'd in the bud,
Is no vain facrifice.

'Tis easier work, if we begin
To fear the Lord betimes;
While finners that grow old in fin
Are harden'd in their crimes.

'Twill fave us from a thousand fnares,,
To mind religion young; 7
Grace will preserve our following years,
And make our virtue ftrong.

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
Employ my youngest breath;

Thus I'm prepar'd for longer days,
Or fit for early death.

WATTS.

LOVE BETWEEN BROTHERS AND

SISTERS.

WHATEVER brawls difturb the street,
There fhould be peace at home;

Where fifters dwell, and brothers meet,
Quarrels fhould never come,

Birds in their little nefts agree;
And 'tis a fhameful sight,
When children of one family
Fall out, and chide, and fight!

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
To rage against another;

So wicked Cain was hurried on
'Till he had kill'd his brother.

The wife will make their anger cool,
At least before 'tis night;

But in the bofom of a fool

It burns till morning light.

Pardon, O Lord, our childish rage,
Our little brawls remove:

That as we grow to riper age,

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Our hearts may all be love.

JOM WATTS.

TRUE BEAUTYM on ALE

WHAT is the blooming tincture of the fkin,
Το peace of mind, and harmony within?
What the bright sparkling of the fineft eye,
To the foft foothing of a calm reply?
Can loveliness of form, or shape, or air,
With lovelinefs of words or deeds compare?
Nolthofe at firft th' unwary heart may gain;
But these these only, can the heart retain.

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SONNET,

TO CHARITY.

DAUGHTER of Heav'n fublime! thou ray of God,
Pure effence! fprung from pure celeftial love!
Rich is the bofom grac'd with thy abode,
And poor the wretch thy fpirit fails to move.
O fill my heart; each thought, each word controul,

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