s Work may be aptly
expressed, with slight modifications, in the language of a late
Translator of Horace: "I [have endeavoured] to give not only the exact
sense, but also the manner, the spirit, and [generally] the numbers of
the original; while I have also aimed at giving [the] performance the
freedom and ease of native compositions in [the English]
language."--Preface to "Arundines Devae;" by a Scotch Physician: Edin.

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF CONTENTS.

I. Jesus _page_ 1-10.
II. The Soul 10-24.
III. The Church 24-27.
IV. Death 27-29.
V. Judgement 29-31.
VI. Heaven 31-35.

... It has been endeavoured in the following pages so to develop and
unite these several Themes as to present the unity of Anthems, as it
were, in an Anthem.

FAVOURITE WELSH HYMNS.

JESUS.

PRELUDE.

I would sing Thy love, my Saviour,
O, how can I silent be!
Though more sweetly, more sublimely
Many touch the chords to Thee.
In thy mercy in abundance,
Not a stream but boundless main:
Let me but rehearse the riches
JESUS doth for worlds contain!

I.
EARTH'S CROWN.

Thorns had the Saviour of mankind
His only Crown while here below:
Could Earth no other garland find
With which to deck his holy brow?

Was he a King? yea; to his throne
Heaven, Earth, and Hell allegiance owe;
Nor glory his, nor power alone,--
What heart such depths of grief can know?

Should Earth, dear Lord, crown me with thorns,
Give strength to glory in the shame;
To feel that every thing adorns
My brow, if Jesus wore the same.

I now behold Him on a seat
Of majesty o'er angels raised;
The crowns of heaven laid at his feet,
His Holy Name by myriads praised.

And, Lord, among the crowns which heaven
Adoring, at thy footstool lays,
By contrite Earth may soon be given
A chaplet--not of s