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Songs of Nature, Church, and Home: By Richard Wilton

Wilton, Richard

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The Well-Head

Undersongs

Nature; or, The Minstrel

The Summer of Saint Luke

The Sparrow

The Swallows

Butterflies

The Church-Tower and the Beech-Tree

The Mislethrush

The Skylark

The Chiff-Chaff's Message, heard in March

A Plea for the Sea-Birds

The Hawthorn and the Wild Rose

The Herb Benedict

Apple Blossoms

The Crosswort

Snowdrops

An Incident at the Holy Table

The East Window in York Minster

At York Railway Station

On the Visit of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York to York Minster

Now or When

Christmas Day

The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

Mary Magdalen at the Cross

“The Shadow of Death”

On the Picture by Delaroche

Lent

Resurrection Types

Hymn to the Holy Spirit

Driffield Church Tower

The Priest's Door

On a City Week-Day Evening Service

On my Parish-Register Chest

The Sentinel

The Saxon Sundial and Cross

My Grandchildren at Church

An Incident on the Stage Coach to Cambridge, 1847

On the Death of Morven

“Open the Window Eastward”

Order; or, The Sepulchre

The Avenue of Yews

“My Father worketh hitherto”

Auburn

The Tides

Flamborough Lighthouse

Wastdale Church and Mountains

On an Unfrequented Tarn

Iona

The Highland Shepherd

A Highland Pass

Kinloch Waterfall, in Morven

A Vanished Village

The Rose of Glencripisdale

The Cross and the Aspen Tree

The Lifting of the Mist

Mount Glamaig, Isle of Skye

The Ochil Hills

Dunmore Woods

The Sylvan Shrine, Dunmore

Nature and Duty

Yarrow and Saint Mary's Loch

The Driffield Streams

Izaak Walton's Oak Cabinet

Cambridge Days

To a Friend at Tunis

The View from Christ Church Parsonage, West Walls, Carlisle

Grasmere

The Church Spire at Grasby

On the View of Farringford

To a Friend starting for Palestine

Shells from Gennesaret

Song—“Oh, Where?”

Starlight

Heavenly Silence

“Every one sees his own Rainbow”

The Pyramid of Life

Honey-Gatherers

Borderland

The Pruning of the Vine

“Seventy”

Burnby Church

The New Church of S. John, Bilsdale

Henry Vaughan, Silurist

To the Sacred Poets of America

Verses placed on Washington's Tomb

The Springs, Skell Bank

“Till my Change come”

Benedicite

O all ye Works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Heavens, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Waters that be above the firmament, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O all ye Powers of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Sun and Moon, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Stars of Heaven, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Showers and Dew, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Winds of God, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Fire and Heat, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Winter and Summer, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Dews and Frosts, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Frost and Cold, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Ice and Snow, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Nights and Days, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Light and Darkness, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Lightnings and Clouds, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O let the Earth bless the Lord; yea, let it praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Mountains and Hills, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O all ye Green Things upon the earth, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Wells, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Seas and Floods, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Whales, and all that move in the waters, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O all ye Fowls of the air, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O all ye Beasts and Cattle, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Children of Men, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O let Israel bless the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Priests of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Servants of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye Spirits and Souls of the Righteous, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O ye holy and humble Men of heart, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

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Snowdrops

I

White thoughts we bring
Of waking Spring,
And happy bird
To music stirred.

II

Sweet thoughts we raise
Of those white days
When Mary mild
Presents her Child.

III

High thoughts we tell
With trembling bell—
Earth's Easter day,
Saints' white array.

IV

Glad thoughts are ours
Of angel-bowers,
Where sons of light
Shall walk in white.

2nd February.