Fair beauty’s beaming eye
Grows brighter as she nears her father’s home,
While springs the vessel through the billowy foam,
Bearing her on to sweet domestic love!
So looks the Christian joyfully above,
Whose hour has come to die!
December 15, 1840.
“EXCEEDING GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMISES.”
“In a dry and thirsty land,
Where no water is,”