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Lead, Kindly Light John Henry Newman, D. D.

Home, Sweet Home John Howard Payne

Rock of Ages Rev. A. M. Toplady

AuLD Lang Syne Robert Bums

Nearer, My God, to Thee Sarah F. Adams

Psalm of Life H. W. Longfellow

Art thou weary St. Stephen

He giveth His beloved Sleep T. C. Tildesley

One Sweetly Solemn Thought Phcebe Gary

Thou Everywhere Charles J. Sprague

Abide with Me Rev. Henry F. Lyte

Night Song Richard Storrs Willis

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Copyright, igoo, by Moses King. ciarT c^'^V

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a l&jsalm of tilt.

NE of the very earliest of Henry W. Longfel-
low's poems, written while a very young man
and published in his first collection of poems in
1839, will probably live longer than his more
mature work. It was originally published as
" What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist,"
and it was his earnest protest against the pessimistic teach-
ing of the unknown writer of Ecclesiastes. Read in this
light, as it should be, it has a power and strength seldom
found in verse. As a poet, Longfellow is admitted to be the
one who has " best expressed the feelings of natural man in
regard to death and future life," and in his " Psalm of Life "
and " Footsteps of Angels " (his tribute to his dead wife),
this expression finds its highest embodiment. He died in
1882.

aril me not, in mournful numBer^,
'' atife i? 6ut an cmptp btcam !''
for tlje leeoul ijsJ beab t^t je^Iumfier^,
3Ilnti tljins^ are not tofjat tftep je^eem.

^ fife i^ real ! Hife i^ earnest !
M^JL ^nb t{)e grabe i^as not it^ goal ;
'*2Du^t tljou art, to bu^t returne^e^t;'
i©aief not ^e^pofent of tlje jefoul*

Y^ ^^ enjopment, anb not ^ortotD,
A%^ '^^ out be^trmb enb or toap ;
2&ut to act, tljat eat!) to^morroto
fititx u^ iatt^tt tl^an to^bap^

Htt 10 long, anb €mie i^ fleeting,
3Ilnb out lieart^, tijougl) je^tout anb brabe,
J^tfll, lifee muffleb brum^, ate Beating
jf unetal mattl^e^ to tl)e gtabe*

Xn tfte tDoriti'^ btoah Mb of bank,
3(n tlje fiibouat of llifc,
25e not lifee bumfi, briben cattle !
25e a Ijcto in tlje strife !

^^/tu^a^t no jputurc, IjotDc'ct pleasant !
^A* 3let ti)e ticab jpa^t butp tt^ Dcati !
3lltt— act in tl^e Jitoing f^te^ent !
!^eatt tDitjjin, anb (©ob o'ctljcab !

\ fi\jit$ of great men all temmti u^
#■ ^ Wc tan mafee out litoe^ Sublime,
5tnti, bepatting, leabe fietjinti u^
5f ootprint^ on tlje ^anbjef of time ;

V^Tootpnnt^, tliat perljap^ anotljer,
^^ baaing o'er iik'g solemn main,
31 forlorn anti ^B^fjiptorecfeeti firotl^er
^Seeing, ^liall tafee Ijeart again.

Ket n$, tljen, be np anb boiiig,
. ]@itI)aI)eartfotanpfate;
^tiH at Jjiebing, ^till j^ut^umg,
Scant to labot anti to tpatt*

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