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ITOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT.
Rise from transitory things,
To heaven, thy native place.
Sun, and moon, and stars decay;
Time shall soon this earth remove,
Rise, my soul, and haste away,
To seats prepared above.
2 Rivers to the ocean run,
Nor stay in all their course ;
Fire, ascending, seeks the sun ;
Both speed them to their source.
Thus a soul new born of God,
Pants to view his glorious face,
Upward tends to his abode,
To rest in his embrace.
3 Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn;
Press onward to the prize;
Soon our Saviour will return,
Triumphant in the skies.
Yet a season, and you know
Happy entrance will be given;
All our sorrows left below,
And earth exchanged for heaven.

HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT

405 C. M.
Hope encourages
1 A THOUSAND promises are wrote
In characters of blood,
And those emphatic lines denote
The ever faithful God.
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