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TEACHING FROM THE STARS.

STARS, that on your wondrous way
Travel through the evening sky,
Is there nothing you can say
To such a little child as I ?
Tell me, for I long to know,
Who has made you sparkle so?

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Yes, methinks I hear you say, "Child of mortal race, attend; While we run our wondrous way, "Listen; we would be your friend ; "Teaching you that Name Divine, "By whose mighty word we shine.

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Child, as truly as we roll

"Through the dark and distant sky, You have an immortal soul,

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Born to live when we shall die. "Suns and planets pass away:

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Spirits never can decay.

When some thousand years, at most, "All their little time have spent,

"One by one our sparkling host

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Shall forsake the firmament.

"We shall from our glory fall;

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"Yes, and GOD, who bade us roll,

"GOD, who hung us in the sky,

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Stoops to watch an infant's soul "With a condescending eye; "And esteems it dearer far,

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More in value than a star!

"O then, while your breath is given Let it rise in fervent prayer;

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"And beseech the God of heaven

"To receive your spirit there, "Like a living star to blaze, "Ever to your SAVIOUR'S praise."

EASTER HYMN.

TAYLOR.

JESUS CHRIST is risen to-day,

Our triumphant holiday; Halleluiah!

Who so lately on the cross,

Suffered, to redeem our loss, Halleluiah!

Hymns of praises let us sing,

Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Halleluiah!

Who endured the cross and grave,

Sinners to redeem and save, Halleluiah!

But the pains which he endured,

Our salvation have procured; Halleluiah!
Now above the sky he's King,

Where the angels ever sing Halleluiah!

WAREING WEBB, CASTLE-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

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