The Token and Atlantic Souvenir - 1831 Author:Samuel Griswold Goodrich Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LOST BOY. B Y O. W. H. How sweet to boyhood's glowing pulse The sleep that languid Summer yields, In the still bosom of the wild, Or in the flowery... more » fields ! So art thou slumbering, lonely boy — But ah! how little deemest thou The hungry felon of the wood, Is glaring on thee now ! He crept along the tangled glen, He panted up the rocky steep, He stands and howls above thy head, And thou art still asleep ! No trouble mars thy peaceful dream; And though the arrow, winged with death, Goes glancing near thy thoughtless heart, Thou heedest not its breath. Sleep on ! the danger all is past, The watch-dog, roused, defends thy breast, And well the savage prowler knows He may not break thy rest! Blessed thou art, and shalt be! though thy day Hath not been cloudless, nor unknown the tear Of secret grief, too early and severe — Darkness and sorrow soon shall pass away. As the disciples, when their aching eye Caught the first dawning of the eastern light That saw their Master rising—let thy sight In faith and hope be ever fixed on high. Therefore in patience wait the heavenly prize : Then shall thy deeds in sweet remembrance rise Before the throne. And why should earthly love, When on thy cheek the seal of death is set, Shed the vain tear, or witness with regret The beautiful made permanent above ? RELIGION OF THE SEA. BY F. W. P. GREENWOOD. ' In every object here I see Something, O Lorn, that leads to thee ! Firm as the rocks thy promise stands, Thy mercies countless as the sands, Thy love a sea immensely wide, Thy grace an ever flowing tide.' J. Newton. The ocean is wonderful and divine in its forms and changes and sounds, in its grandeur, its beauty, its variety, its inhabitants, its uses and its mysteries, in...« less