Page 129 - Third Book of Reading Lessons

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10. Give water to the bubbling spring,
And plumage to the sparrow's wing ; Wool to the lamb, and earth renew With cooling shade and sparkling dew.
11. Give sickness health, and hunger bread, A shelter to the orphan's head,
The light of liberty to all
Who pine away in dungeon's thrall.
12. And to ther, Lord; increase Children of piety and peace;
Wisdom and grace to me impart, That I may glad my mother's heart.
13. Truth to my lips, and on my soul Be sanctity's unspotted stole,
That in docility and ar,
I may advance from year to year.
14. And may to thee each pious breathing
Of mine ascend like incense wreathing, From urns that sweetly smell and shine, Borne by some in nt hand like mine.
L M TINE.
COME NOT, 0 LORD ! IN THE DREAD ROBE OF SPLENDOUR.
1. CoME not, 0 Lord! in the dread robe of splendour, Thou wor'st on the Mount, in the day of thine
ire;
Come veil'd in those shadows, deep, awful, but tender,
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Which mercy ings over thy features of re !