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Lyra Innocentium; Thoughts in Verse on Christian Children, Their Ways, and Their Privileges
Lyra Innocentium Thoughts in Verse on Christian Children Their Ways and Their Privileges Author:John Keble General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Original Publisher: J.H. and J. Parker Subjects: Religious poetry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to ... more »Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. EFFECT OF EXAMPLE. ' For I have five brethren ; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment." Five loving souls, each one as mine, And each for evermore to be! Each deed of each to thrill For good or ill Along thine awful line, Eternity! Who for such burthen may suffice ? Who bear to think, how scornful tone, Or word or glance too bold, Or ill dream told, May bar from Paradise Our Master's own ? "We scatter seeds with careless hand, And dream we ne'er shall see them more : But for a thousand years Their fruit appears, In weeds that mar the land, Or healthful store. The deeds we do, the words we say, -- Into still air they seein to fleet, "We count them ever past; But they shall last, In the dread judgment they And we shall meet. I charge thee by the years gone by, For the love's sake of brethren dear, Keep thou the one true way In work and play, Lest in that world their cry Of woe thou hear! PRESUMPTION. " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?" Deae Child, to thce the tale is told Of him who robb'd the poor man's fold. Thou listenest, and with scorn and ire Thy quivering brow is all on fire. Thou think'st, O never sure on me So foul a blot shall Angels see. For joy thou hold'st thine eager breath To hear him doom'd; -- he dies the death. But mark, young David was as thou, A generous boy with open brow. With heart as pure as mountain air He caroll'd to his fleecy care : With motion free as mountain cl...« less