Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Blest is thy dwelling-place— ADDRESS TO JEHOVAH. BLESSED be thy name forever, Thou of life the guard and giver; Thou canst guard thy creatures sleeping; Heal the heart long broke with weeping. God of stillness and of motion, Of the desert and the ocean, Of the mountain, rock, and river, Thou who slumberest not, nor sleepest, Blest are they thou kindly keepest: God of evening's parting ray, Of midnight's gloom, and dawning day, That rises from the azure sea, Like breathings of eternity; God of life! that fade shall never, Blessed be thy name forever! CULLODEN, on thy swarthy brow Spring no wild flowers or verdure fair: Thou feel'st not summer's genial glow More than the freezing wintry air; For once thou drank'st the hero's blood, And War's unhallowed footsteps bore, The deeds unholy nature view'd, Then fled and curs'd thee evermore. From Beauty's wild and woodland glen Rush onward with the broad claymore; How hearts that high with honor heaves, The volleying thunder there laid low, Or scattered like the forest leaves When wintry winds begin to blow. Where now thy banners, brave Lochiel? The braided plumes torn from thy brow, What must thy haughty spirit feel When skulking like the mountain roe? What wild birds chant from Lochy's bowers On April's eve their loves and joys? The Lord of Lochy's loftiest towers To foreign lands an exile flies. To his blue hills that rose in view, In other climes, thy foe shall feel The weight of Cameron's deadly brand. Land of proud hearts and mountains gray, Where Fingal fought and Ossian sung, Mourn dark Culloden's fateful day, That from thy chiefs the laurel wrung, Shades of the mighty and the brave, Your fading fame in loftiest rhyme. THE COVENANTER'S SCAFFOLD SOLE. SING with me! sing with me! Bounding from the flesh I sever! World of sin, adieu forever! Sing with me! sing with me! Sing with me! sing with me! Farewell earthly morn and even, Sun and moon and stars of heaven; Heavenly portals ope before me, Welcome, Christ, in all his glory! |