20.12.2012, 21:20
Sweet is the thought that angels are on earth !
Reason and the unerring Word confirm
The truth that they unceasing watch the germ
Of immortality — of untold worth.
How great to imitate their office here !
To raise the drooping head with anguish bow'd
While pointing to Hope's rainbow in the cloud,
Which covenanted mercy bade appear.
Such did each bright intelligence, when
He The " man of sorrows " sank upon the ground,
When tears of blood trace'd in Gethsemane
The record of strict judgment's poignant wound;
And we, tho' trammell'd in these bonds of clay,
Can soothing minister till we are blest as they.
Reason and the unerring Word confirm
The truth that they unceasing watch the germ
Of immortality — of untold worth.
How great to imitate their office here !
To raise the drooping head with anguish bow'd
While pointing to Hope's rainbow in the cloud,
Which covenanted mercy bade appear.
Such did each bright intelligence, when
He The " man of sorrows " sank upon the ground,
When tears of blood trace'd in Gethsemane
The record of strict judgment's poignant wound;
And we, tho' trammell'd in these bonds of clay,
Can soothing minister till we are blest as they.