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AN EMBLEM.—A LONELY CLOUD.
“Sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
A lonely cloud, as eve began,
Its quiet rest did take,
As graceful as a sleeping swan
Upon a moonlit lake:
One star, companion of the west,
Shone 'mid that cloudy sphere,
Like hope, within a human breast,
When sorrow darkens near!
Its quiet rest did take,
As graceful as a sleeping swan
Upon a moonlit lake:
One star, companion of the west,
Shone 'mid that cloudy sphere,
Like hope, within a human breast,
When sorrow darkens near!
And oh! methought, for all our woes
A lesson here is given:
Would man might thus his griefs repose
Upon the breast of heaven—
Look upward to that realm afar
When worldly cares have birth,
And rest his hope on God's own star—
And take his heart from earth!
A lesson here is given:
Would man might thus his griefs repose
Upon the breast of heaven—
Look upward to that realm afar
When worldly cares have birth,
And rest his hope on God's own star—
And take his heart from earth!
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