Along a Galaxy that knows no end,
But in His glory who for sinners died.

XIV.

II. CONTINUED.

FROM Rite and Ordinance abused they fled
To Wilds where both were utterly unknown;
But not to them had Providence foreshown
What benefits are missed, what evils bred,
In worship neither raised nor limited

Save by Self-will. Lo! from that distant shore,
For Rite and Ordinance, Piety is led

Back to the Land those Pilgrims left of yore,
Led by her own free choice. So Truth and Love
By Conscience governed do their steps retrace.-
Fathers! your Virtues, such the power of grace,
Their spirit, in your Children, thus approve.
Transcendent over time, unbound by place,
Concord and Charity in circles move.

XV.

III. CONCLUDEI).- AMERICAN EPISCOPACY.

PATRIOTS informed with Apostolic light

Were they, who, when their country had been freed, Bowing with reverence to the ancient creed,

Fixed on the frame of England's Church their

sight,

XVII.

PLACES OF WORSHIP.

As star that shines dependent upon star
Is to the sky while we look up in love;

As to the deep fair ships, which though they move
Seem fixed, to eyes that watch them from afar;
As to the sandy desert fountains are,
With palm-groves shaded at wide intervals,
Whose fruit around the sun-burnt Native falls

Of roving tired or desultory war,

Such to this British Isle her Christian Fanes,
Each linked to each for kindred services;

Her Spires, her Steeple-towers with glittering

vanes

Far-kenned, her Chapels lurking among trees,
Where a few villagers on bended knees
Find solace which a busy world disdains.

XVIII.

PASTORAL CHARACTER.

A GENIAL hearth, a hospitable board,
And a refined rusticity, belong

To the neat mansion, where, his flock among,
The learned Pastor dwells, their watchful Lord.
Though meek and patient as a sheathed sword;
Though pride's least lurking thought appear a wrong

XX.

BAPTISM.

DEAR be the Church, that, watching o'er the needs
Of Infancy, provides a timely shower,

Whose virtue changes to a Christian Flower
A Growth from sinful Nature's bed of weeds!
Fitliest beneath the sacred roof proceeds
The ministration; while parental Love
Looks on, and Grace descendeth from above
As the high service pledges now, now pleads.
There, should vain thoughts outspread their wings
and fly

To meet the coming hours of festal mirth,

The tombs - which hear and answer that brief cry,
The Infant's notice of his second birth
Recall the wandering Soul to sympathy

With what man hopes from Heaven, yet fears from Earth.

XXI.

SPONSORS.

FATHER! to God himself we cannot give

A holier name! then lightly do not bear
Both names conjoined, but of thy spiritual care
Be duly mindful: still more sensitive

Do thou, in truth a second Mother, strive