The coming Judgment. The world is grown old, and her pleasures are past; The sun in the heaven is languid and pale, The king on his throne, the bride in her bower, The world is grown old: but should we complain, And we look for our crown when judgment is near. HEBER. Epitaph. The thorny paths of life awhile she trod, Iudicium propinquum. Consenuit tellus fugitivaqve gaudia ponit; Epitaphium. Experta vitae consitum spinis iter K. K. The Year. In childhood, when, with eager eyes, Pledged constancy of good. Spring sang of heaven; the summer flowers They came and went, the short-lived four; Far different now!-the whirling year All blent in one dusk hue. Why dwell on rich autumnal lights, Then what this world to thee, my heart? In all its fleetingness. Annus. Annum qvom varia dispositum vice Aeterni series boni. Ver caeli cecinit gaudia; non Canis Invidit foliis moras. Venerunt Charites quattuor et vice Saltus inter amoris Pignus qvaeqve tulit suum. Ut versa est species! Ut rapidum seqvor Annum vix oculis deficientibus! Pallet, praeterit omnis Subsidens tenebris color. Auctumnale iubar qvid morer, aut opes Vernas, aut hiemis concilia et choros ? Nil Octobribus horis Maiae, nil brevior dies Longo discrepat. O pars melior mei, Pascit? Num fugitivi Menses te dominam vocant? K K The flame, the storm, the quaking ground, Of the still voice divine. O princely lot! O blissful art! E'en while by sense of change opprest, Thus to forecast in heart Heaven's age of fearless rest. LYRA APOSTOLICA. Psalm cvii. 23-30. They that go down to the sea in ships, And his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth, Which lifteth up the waves thereof. They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep: Their soul melteth away because of their trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wit's end. So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, He delivereth them out of their distress. For he maketh the storm to cease, So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they are at rest: And so he bringeth them to the haven where they would be. |