Here a Refuge for the guilty:

Here are joy and health and peace:

Here a Covert near the Godhead,

Where the vile may make their nest;[3]

Justice smiling fond approval,

Honoured Law declares them blest.

[3]Nyth,” a current figure in Welsh poetry.

XII.
HEAVENLY ADORATION.

Angelic throngs unnumbered,

As dawn’s bright drops of dew,