p o B II r Y .

CHARITY.
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Keen blows December's whistling blast
The gloom of eve is thickening fast,


And fast comes down the snow!
Oh! whittier shall the friendless fly
For refuge from an angry sky,


TO shield them here below!
Bereft of every stay but Heaven
From home from friends from kindred driv'n
From every dearest lie;
How many loving pair brought low,
TO drink the cup of bitter woe


In beggary to sigh.
No fault of theirs--some link that broke
In credits chain, some sudden stroke


BY fraud--by malice hurled,
A sweeping flood. devouring flame,
Or some harsh agent pouncing came,


And cast them on the world.
Let wild ambitions hirelings call
His minions to profusion's hall,


10 squander wealth away;
Seduction sap, corruption bribe,
Some wretch amid the vcnal tribe,


His country 10 betray.
But thou TO whom pro,itious Heaven,
A heart to feel and wealth has given, =.
Thy suffering brother save,
The good Samaritan he found,
Pour balm into the travellers wound,


That journeys TO the grave.
Be ears unto the deaf, and find
A lamp TO guide the stumbling blind,


In darkness left forlorn; j,r3
The paralytic prop; and be .l1s
The friend to set the prisoner free,


BY long confinement worn.
The naked clothe, the hungry feed;
BY Heaven revealed, it is decreed,
+ A cup of water given
If given to please the God Of love-
Brings down blessing from above,


Is registered in Heaven.
The shipwrecked mariner console,
BY tempest tost from pole to pole,


And pIundered on thy shores,
Who, far from country, far away
From every friend, from every stay,


Thy sympathy implores. t2- |
All are thy brethren, all, like thee,
Composed of dust, but hope to see


The Lord of Earth and Heaven;
The blessings here TO them denied,
Forever lost fA.'ssnkless pride,


VII! there to isem be given.
The great accounting day will come,
When every faiihless steward dumb,


Must feel compunction's thorn,
And weeping angels shall behold
How cursed lust of damning gold


Provoke's Jehovah's scorn. 4o