To banish thoughts of grief and melancholy,
And bid the trembling heart forget to fear.
Bright angel forms, on soft and airy pinions,
Like carrier birds, the messengers of love,
Leave the fair precincts of the blest dominions,
With choicest favors from the world above.
They come, and give to solitude its pleasures,
And throw a hallowed charm around the heart;
Bear up the thoughts to heaven’s unfading treasures,
Where kindred spirits meet no more to part.