In the last verse the allusion is to the text, “Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself, as he that putteth it off.” I. Kings, xx. 11th.
I trust the reader has noticed that the arrangement of these Lays has not been merely fortuitous. They are meant to succeed each other, as did the experiences which suggested them, from the pursuit of trifles, to the choice of God’s holy service; and to exhibit as a moral what St. Augustine so appositely says in his confessions: Tu, Domine, excitas, ut laudare Te delectat; quia fecisti nos ad Te, et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in Te.
CONTENTS.
| Page. | |
| Preface, | [3] |
| Halloween, | [5] |
| Notes to Halloween, | [64] |
| Lays, Meditative and Devotional, | [67] |
| Dedication, | [69] |
| Preface, | [71] |
| Give me the Hour, | [73] |
| Hymn of the Wreath, | [75] |
| Star that Hast, | [78] |
| Stanzas, | [81] |
| Canzonet, | [82] |
| Thou art gone to the Land, | [83] |
| Song, | [84] |
| Canzonet, | [85] |
| Caution, | [87] |
| Oh Where’s the Hope, | [87] |
| Canzonet, | [89] |
| I’ve Left the Giddy Throng, | [91] |
| March, | [93] |
| Lake Byrom, | [95] |
| Stanzas, | [96] |
| Lament, | [98] |
| The Zenaida Dove, | [101] |
| Remember, | [103] |
| Christmas, | [104] |
| Oh Would I were happy, | [106] |
| The Mirage, | [108] |
| Meditation, | [109] |
| Lines, | [110] |
| Hymn, | [111] |
| Hymn, | [113] |
| Home Music, | [114] |
| To all that’s Glorious and Bright, | [116] |
| There is a Land, | [118] |
| The Heart’s Song, | [120] |
| Lament, | [121] |
| In Radiance He came, | [122] |
| Lament of the Virgins, | [125] |
| The Last Plague of Egypt, | [128] |
| Hymn to the Redeemer, | [131] |
| Stanzas, | [134] |
| Stanzas, | [135] |
| But Thou, oh Lord, | [136] |
| Verses, | [137] |
| Still as our Day, | [137] |
| There’s not a Cloud, | [139] |
| Oh Walk with God, | [140] |
| The Land of Beulah, | [142] |
| Hymn in Holy Week, | [143] |
| Hymn, | [145] |
| Mariner’s Hymn, | [147] |
| Little Hymn, | [148] |
| Thy Glory, Lord, | [150] |
| Hymn for the Dead, | [151] |
| The First Psalm, | [152] |
| Our God in Glory, | [153] |
| When Israel from the Land of Nile, | [155] |
| Right Glad was I, | [156] |
| Orisons, | [157] |
| Advent Hymn, | [160] |
| Not Unto us, | [163] |
| Thee, God, we Praise, | [164] |
| A Lent Hymn, | [167] |
| Stanzas for Eastertide, | [168] |
| Hymn for Holy Thursday, | [170] |
| Hymn for Trinity Sunday, | [171] |
| Let out thy Soul, | [173] |
| Watchwords, | [176] |
| Holy Orders, | [178] |
| Notes, | [183] |
H. S. PARSONS
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