"Descend, | celes | -tial fire,
And seize | me from | above,
Melt me | in flames | of pure | desire,
A sac | -rifice | to love.
Let joy | and wor | -ship spend
The rem | -nant of | my days,
And to | my God, | my soul | ascend,
In sweet | perfumes | of praise."
WATTS: Poems sacred to Devotion, p. 50.
Example V.—Lyric Stanzas.
"I would | begin | the mu | -sic here,
And so | my soul | should rise:
O for | some heav'n | -ly notes | to bear
My spir | -it to | the skies!
There, ye | that love | my say | -iour, sit,
There I | would fain | have place
Amongst | your thrones | or at | your feet,
So I | might see | his face."
WATTS: Same work, "Horæ Lyricæ," p. 71.
Example VI.—England's Dead.
"The hur | -ricane | hath might
Along | the In | -dian shore,
And far, | by Gan | -ges' banks | at night,
Is heard | the ti | -ger's roar.
But let | the sound | roll on!
It hath | no tone | of dread
For those | that from | their toils | are gone;—
There slum | -ber Eng | -land's dead."
HEMANS: Poetical Works, Vol. ii, p. 61.
The following examples have some of the common diversifications already noticed under the longer measures:—
Example I.—"Languedocian Air."