II. Among the murm'ring crystal streams, III. There, far from all the busy world, And taste more pleasure in thy fimiles IV. My pure defires, and holy vows, While ev'ry hour to facred love The APPEAL. By Mrs. Rows. I To thee, great fearcher of the heart, Who all the fecrets of my foul, Even thou, th' unerring judge of all, III. That thee, whatever else I miss, As my exceeding great reward, IV. Leave me of wealth, of honour, friends, And all things elfe bereft, But of thy favour, gracious God, Let me be never left. Oh V. Oh hear, and grant thy boundless love's And I'll hereafter close my lips And never urge thee more. VI. With this alone I'll be content, Among the brightest joys of life, A PARAPHRASE on Rev. Chap. i. from v. 13. to v. 18. By a young Lady. I. 7HO cou'd (and yet outlive th' amazing fight!) WHO O! who could ftand the stress of so much light? Amidst the golden lamps the vision stood, Form'd like a man, with all the awe and luftre of a God. II. A kingly vefture cloth'd him to the ground, And radiant gold his facred breasts furround, For heav'nly rays exprefly fhone thro' the unable cloud. III. His head, his awful head, was grac'd with hair As foft as fnow, as melted filver fair; And from his eyes fuch active glories flow, The confcious feraphs well might vail their dimmer faces too. IV. His feet were ftrong, and dreadful as his port, C 3 His His voice refembled the majeftic fall Of mighty waves: 'twas awful, great, divine, and fo lemn all. V. His pow'rful hand a starry fceptèr held, His mouth a threatning two-edg'd fword did weild, As all the glorious lights above had been contracted there. VI. And now my fainting fpirits ftrove in vain I dy'd beneath the pond'rous load, at the great vifion's feet VII. But he who doth the fprings of life contain, As nothing but a pow'r divine had made me live to hear. VIII. "From an unviewable eternity "I was, I am. and must forever be; "Once dead, but now an endless life I gain, "And over death and hell triumphant reign.' SERAPHIC LOVE. By Mrs. RowE. J. HOU beauty's vaft abyfs, abstract of all or fplendid call; To thee in heav'nly flames, and pure defires, II With admiration, praife, and endless love, III. What vapours then, what fhort-liv'd glories be Before Before the streaming fplendor of thine eye, IV. Farewel then, all ye flat delights of fenfe, V. How ftrongly thou my panting heart dost move In thefe fweet flames let me expire, and fee VI. Oh! let me die, for there's no earthly blifs Thoughts on DEATH. By a young Lady. I. "Malmoft to the fatal period come, I' My forward glas has well nigh run its laft; Which ne'er will be recall'd when once 'tis paft. 11. Methinks I have eternity in view, And dread to reach the edges of the fhore, Nor doth the prospect the lefs difmal fhew For all the thousands that have launch'd before. III. Why weep, my friends? what is their lofs to mine? If that be loft, I'm loft for ever too. IV. 'Tis not the painful agonies of death, Nor all the gloomy horrors of the grave; Were that the worst, unmov'd I'd yield my breath, -But V. But there's an after-day, 'tis that I fear: APARAPHRASE on John iii. 16. by a young Lady. For God fo loved the World, that he gave his only begotten Son, &c. I. ES, fo God lov'd the world; but where YES Are this great love's dimenfions? Ev'n Angels ftop, for baffled here Are their vaft apprehenfions. In vain they strive to grafp the boundless thing; Not all their comments can explain the mighty truth I fing. II. Yet ftill they pause on the contents Of this amazing story; How he that fill'd the wide extents Of uncreated glory; He whom the heav'n of heav'ns cou'd not contain, Shou'd yet within the facred maid's contracted womb re main. III. They fee him born, and hear him weep, Whose awful voice had fhook the deep, And breath'd his will in thunder: That awful voice chang'd to an iufant's cry, Whilft in a feeble woman's arms he feems conftrain'd to lye. IV. A God (ah! where are human boasts?) The Lord of all the heav'nly hofts The |