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The fleeting beauty of a summer day;
Truth, virtue, spring from God's eternal throne,
Nor quit the spirit when it leaves the clay:
Love them! love them!

2 Love on! love on! though death and earthly change
Bring mournful silence to a darkened home;
Still let the heart rest where no eye grows strange,
Where never falls a shadow from the tomb:
Love there! love there!

3 Love on! love on! the voice of grief and wrong
Comes from the palace and the poor man's cot;
Bid the proud bend, and bid the weak be strong,
And life's tired pilgrim meekly bear his lot:
Give strength! give peace!

4 Love on! love on! and though the evening still
Wear the stern clouds that veiled thy noonday sun,
With changeless trust, with calm, unwavering will,
Work! bravely work! till the last hour be done:
Love God! love Man!

299. L. M. Anonymous.

Not Faithless, But Believing.

1 O, still trust on, if in the heart
A holy inspiration rest,--
Though painful be the chosen part,
With doubts, and fears, and cares opprest!
O, shrink not, brothers, though Christ's call
Demand our youth, our strength, our all!

2 No offering is made in vain;
Some human soul shall feel our love;
E'en weary hours of toil and pain
Shall help to lift our souls above:
And may our recompense be given,
In leading many souls to heaven!

3 And still trust on! with trembling hand,
'Tis ours a little seed to sow;
It springs at the divine command,--
Shall, if God will, to ripeness grow;
Beauty and fragrance it shall bring,
And breathe an everlasting spring.

300. C. M. Jones Very.

As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap.

1 The bud will soon become a flower,
The flower become a seed;
Then seize, O youth, the present hour,--
Of that thou hast most need.

2 Do thy best always,--do it now,--
For in the present time,
As in the furrows of a plough,
Fall seeds of good or crime.

3 The sun and rain will ripen fast
Each seed that thou hast sown;
And every act and word at last
By its own fruit be known.

4 And soon the harvest of thy toil
Rejoicing thou shalt reap;