The poetical works of William Lisle Bowles ... with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan |
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SABBATH MORNING.
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The Sabbath bells are knolling slow,The summer morn how fair!
Whilst father, mother, children go,
And seek the house of prayer.
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Some, musing, roam the churchyard round,Some turn their heads with sighs,
And gaze upon the new-made ground
Where old Giles Summers lies.
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But see the pastor in his band,The bells have ceased to knoll;
Now enter, and at God's command,
Think, Christian, of thy soul.
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Whilst heavenly hopes around thee shine,As in God's presence live,
And calmer comforts shall be thine,
Than all the world can give.
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