ENOCH. Of one alone, 'mid this high revelry, 1 Of one alone we read, who "walk'd with God; THE FLOOD. Down rush the torrents from above; the deep 2 Ceaseless; -the muddy waters eddying fill No pity must they have: so on they go. "And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him." -Gen. v. 24. 2 "The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken Morehead. up, and the windows of heaven were opened."—Gen. vii. 11. 3" And all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered." —Gen. vii. 19. He comes! He comes! the awful trump I hear! I see: He comes! the archangel from above. Awake, ye incorruptible- arise: From east to west, from the antarctic pole 1 "When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men."-Eph. iv. 8.; see Ps. lxviii. 18. 2 "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" 1 Cor. xv. 55. 9"The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth," &c. John, v. 28. "For this corruptible must put on incorruption."— 1 Cor. xv. 53. 'Tis then, nor sooner, that the restless mind THE LAST DAY. Smart. That day of wrath! that dreadful day! Oh! on that day, that wrathful day, The trumpet sounds! the graves restore 4 The dead in Christ shall first arise On those prepared to meet him. "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burned up."2 Pet. iii. 10. Scott. Luther's Hymn. 2 "The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll." - Isa. xxxiv, 4. 3"Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him," &c. Rev. i. 7. See Matt. xxiv. 30. 4"And the dead in Christ shall rise first."-1 Thes. iv. 16. Read vers. 15, 16, 17. Prime, the dawn; cir'-cle, surround; ex-ha-la'-tions, vapours me-lo-di-ous, musical as-cend', go up dis-perse', to scatter dis-pel', to drive away per-pet/-u-al, continual; aught, any thing; glide, move gently; state'-ly, majestically; skirts, the borders. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good', Thus wondrous fair; Thyself how wondrous then! In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn "This hymn is an imitation, or rather paraphrase of the 148th Psalm, and (of what is a paraphrase upon that) the canticle placed after the Te Deum in the Liturgy, 'O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord,""&c.— Newton. 2 "Speak ye who," &c. "He is unspeakable, no creature can speak worthily of Him as He is; but speak ye, who are best able, ye angels, ye in heaven; on earth join, all ye creatures," &c. - Newton. 3 Earth. By earth is here meant this lower world, in opposition to heaven. 4 "The planet Venus, when she rises before the sun, is called Phosphorus, Lucifer, and Morning Star; when she sets after the sun, is called Hesperus, Vesper, and the Evening Star."- Newton. Thou Sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run 6 And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. In thy eternal course. In thy gularity, and harmony of their moconiinual course. 2 Fall'st, settest. 3 Moon, &c. The construction is, "Thou moon that now meetest and now fliest the orient sun, together with the fixed stars, and ye five other wandering fires," &c. 4 Five others, &c., i. e., Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus. Wandering fires, in opposition to fired stars. 5 Mystic dance, in allusion to the music of the Spheres, which is understood to mean the proportion, re tions. 6 In quaternion run, that is, "That in a four-fold mixture and combination run a perpetual circle, one element continually changing into another." 7 Warble, applied to any melodious sound; as "the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow." 8 Souls, other creatures besides man. |