Of this poor faltering tongue;

And that shall the first notes employ

Of my celestial song.

487. L. M. Henry Moore.

Prayer for Religious Principle.

1Amidst a world of hopes and fears,

A wild of cares, and toils, and tears,

Where foes alarm and dangers threat,

And pleasures kill, and glories cheat:

2Shed down, O Lord! a heavenly ray,