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‘WALKER’: -amznxmn Maoazmze,
In endless bankruptcy the human race, ‘A '
s..He purchased free unfathomable grace, , . .
- For all who take and use‘ this grace might-1 . .
They sung his praise, who now to sorrowing man.
Is all in ails-4-his prophet, priest, and king -=7 p
Who paid his debt--who ever lives above
To plead his cause--from whose unbounded worth
The gift divine proceeds, which raises high M -
Above earth’s ghastly frown-the child of God! ---
And opens to his View an endless life, . . ‘
Where frailty of the flesh shall pain no more-------
.Vs’here no oppressor’s rod can reach to hurt --gt
" When no alarm of war---no mangled corsc-
No widow. mingling with an orpl:an’s tcars--
" No sights which sickeu nature.--and which biasi
Her finest feelings-and her fairest hopes
Can interpose to damp eternal joy. . .
' ' . The anthem swelled
Till Heav’n"s high concave rung l%nd loudly rung
VVith tremulous delight !---’--The angels heard ', 1
And wond’ring paused at this unusual sound
Of planet placed at distance from their shore--
But hearing this the anniversary was A
Of tnan’s Redeemer--angels’ sovereign Lord;
" They tune their harps--their coral bells prepare.
All Heaven rings !-The Jubilee is sung'-- r ‘
The Saviour rose I ----no man need perish n0W-
Felicit ‘ ' ' " ‘C ‘ ‘
Awaits the child of Adam who believes !-.
In God believes --and with his feeble pow’rs
Prays he will take his heart, alfections, life, .
nd consecrate them to himself ; in acts '
Of faith, andihope, and charity divine, ,
VWhich best may fit the feeble vessel here, a
For num’roun duties of his social state,-
-‘ And pure enjoyment of the great Supreme, '
. I When time on earth to man shall‘ be no more-- .
These strains‘ the angels‘ sunggs-and echoed back ‘I V
To ear-th’a astonished sons in solemn peals, ' 1' .
The ardent praises of redemption’: Lord l--.--"t ,
And thus they end‘-but when the last response
Was heard to vibrate on Creation’s ear;
A solemn clap of thunder from beneath
' Wliich shook our planet testified to all--- ’
That when the Saviour rose, and dragged the chains
Whiclt fastened earth to -hell with subtle force,
He did a work which none but God could do :----'.
And hence the sick’ning pang-the horrid groan-.:
The tear which blotted out the sun ' --proclaim" '
ardon and mercy for a rebel race, . V i i
If ‘MY ‘his pardon will accept in time-