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SPIRITUAL SONGS.

" Was no man near his life to save?

" No; heaven that life refused to spare--­" Then mourning I will seek the grave, " Sink to the grave, and join him there." de mod

While thus, for him, his father wept,* His aged frame in sackcloth laid; The youth surviv'd, in safety kept, Tho in far clime a captive made; And where old Nile, with turgid wave, Rolls his proud length o'er Egypt's plain, Was led by heaven, a realm to save, And he shall see his sire again!

" Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? JUD. V. 28.

( AIR- The Pigeon.)

Tho' tarrying steal The chariot wheel, Thy way tho' mysterious it be; Tho' clouds wait around, And darkness profound, Yet hopeth my spirit in thee!

* This stanza in quicker time.