HYMN BY THE SICKBED OF A MOTHER.

Father! that in the olive-shade,

When the dark hour came on,

Didst, with a breath of heavenly aid,

Strengthen thy Son;

Oh! by the anguish of that night,

Send us down bless’d relief;

Or to the chasten’d, let thy might

Hallow this grief!

And Thou, that when the starry sky