I hope, my dear young reader, you will consider what Julia's mamma said to her for her instructions and comfort about the Storm and the Rainbow is here mentioned for your instruction and comfort too on such occasions. Only fear God, and you need not fear any thing else.
How dreadful to hear in the sky
The thunder so long and so loud!
To witness the fork'd lightnings fly,
Discharged from yonder black cloud!
Lord, mercy on me do bestow,
And show me the peaceful Rainbow!
In vain to shelters do I run,
If I find no shelter in Thee;
No threat'ning dangers can I shun,
But as Thou art gracious to me.
Thou can'st hush my fears I well know,
By showing the peaceful Rainbow.
That tells me the storm shall soon end,
The earth shall be delug'd no more,
That God is my father and friend,
Whose love is great as his power.
His signal to creatures below
Is the peaceful, lovely Rainbow.
This bow is not bent by a string,
Because the anger is all fled;
Nor has it an arrow to fling,
So that I have nothing to dread.
And God now would have me to know,
All is mercy in the Rainbow.
In future, then, when I'm afraid,
And darkness and storms fill the air,
I will think that God who them made,
Views me as a child of his care;
That storms will soon cease from below,
And the sky display the Rainbow.
FINIS.
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