My God! trembling to Thee;

True, fond, trembling to Thee!

. So, dark as I roam, in this wintry wo shrouded,

The hope of my spirit turns trembling to The

BUT WHO SHALL SEE.

BUT who shall see the glorious day,
When thron'd on Zion's brow,
The Lord shall rend that veil away,
Which hides the nations now!*
When earth no more beneath the fear
Of his rebuke shall lie ;†

When pain shall cease, and every tear
Be wip'd from every eye!‡

Then, Judah! thou no more shalt mourn
Beneath the heathen's chain;
Thy days of splendour shall return,
And all be new again.—

"The fount of life shall then be quaff'd,

In peace, by all who come;

And every wind that blows shall waft
Some long-lost exile home!

"And he will destroy in this mountain the fac of the covering cast over all people, and the ve that is spread over all nations."-Isaiah xxv. 7.

"The rebuke of his people he shall take aw from off all the earth."-Isaiah xxv. 8.

"And God shall wipe away all tears from the eyes; neither shall there be any more pain."-Re xxi. 4.

CHORUS OF PRIESTS.

ALMIGHTY GOD! when round thy shrine The palm-tree's heavenly branch we twine,* (Emblem of life's eternal ray,

And love that "fadeth not away :")
We bless the flowers, expanded all,
We bless the leaves that never fall,
And trembling say-" In Eden thus
The tree of life may flower for us!"

When round thy cherubs smiling calm
Without their flames, we wreath the palm,
Oh God! we feel the emblem true,-
Thy mercy is eternal too!

Those cherubs, with their smiling eyes,
That crown of palm which never dies,
Are but the types of Thee, above,-
Eternal life, and peace and love!

ST. AUGUSTINE TO HIS SISTER.

O fair! oh purest! be thou the dove,
That flies alone to some sunny grove;
And lives unseen, and bathes her wing,
All vestal white, in the limpid spring;

* "The Scriptures having declared that the temple of Jerusalem was a type of the Messiah, it is Katural to conclude that the Palms which made so conspicuous a figure in that structure, represented

There, if the hovering hawk be near,
That limpid spring in its mirror clear
Reflects him, ere he can reach his prey,
And warns the timorous bird away.
Oh! be like this dove,

Oh fair! oh purest! be like this dove.

The sacred pages of God's own book
Shall be the spring, the eternal brook,
In whose holy mirror, night and day,
Thou wilt study Heaven s reflected ray :--
And should the foes of Virtue dare,
With gloomy wing to seek thee there,
Thou wilt see how dark their shadows lie
Between Heaven and thee, and trembling fly!
Oh! be like the dove;

Oh fair! oh purest! be like the dove.

that Life and Immortality which were brought to light by the gospel."-Observations on the Palm as a Sacred Emblem, by W. Tighe.

NATIONAL AIRS,

BY

THOMAS MOORE, Esq.

VOLUME I.

DOST THOU REMEMBER.

Portuguese Air.

Dost thou remember that place so lonely,
A place for lovers, and lovers only.

Where first I told thee all my secret sighs; When as the moon-beam that trembled o'er thee

Illum'd thy blushes, I knelt before thee,

And read my hope's sweet triumph in those eyes?

Then, then, while closely heart was drawn to heart,

Love bound us, never, never more to part.

And when I call'd on thee by names the dearest
That love could fancy, the fondest, nearest,
My life, my only life among the rest!

In those sweet accents that still inthral me, Thou said'st, Ah, wherefore thy life thus ca

me,

Thy soul, thy soul's the name that I love bes For life soon passes, but how blest to be That soul which never, never parts from the

OH COME TO ME WHEN DAYLIGH'

SETS.

Venetian Air.

OH Come to me when daylight sets,
Sweet, then come to me;
When smoothly go our gondolets,
O'er the moonlight sea.

When mirth's awake, and love begins,
Beneath that glancing ray,

With sound of lute and mandolins,
To steal young hearts away.

Oh! then's the hour for those who love,
Sweet, like thee and me,
When all's so calm below, above,

In heaven, and o'er the sea;
When maidens sing sweet Barcarolles,
And echo sings again,

So sweet that all with ears and souls

Should love and listen then.

Oh come to me, &c.