O'er Gomer's northern holds of light,

A wintry waste before,

There burst a glow of living light,

A sun, that sets no more.

'Mid flowery walks, and cloudless skies,

The multitudes, with joy,

Inhaled a bloom that never dies

A bliss without alloy.

From Alp and Appennine they press'd;

From Afric's broken bond;

From Gades and the British West;'

And western worlds beyond.

The people saw, with rapt delight,

What ages toil'd to see;

A king, that ever guards the right;

A land, where all are free.

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And Israel's remnant rode sublime,

A tempest-driven band;

Who found a calm at eventime,

And reach'd the promis'd land;

A holy land, a land of rest;

A priesthood without stain;

A law, which cannot be transgress'd;

A true Messiah's reign.

Blest, when the various tribes of earth,

Disperst for ages past,

United by a purer birth,

In Zion met at last!

Blest in perpetual peace, maintain'd

Beneath a common Lord;

Around a tree of life regain'd,

In paradise restor❜d.

END OF THE THIRD BOOK.

BOOK THE FOURTH.

Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord! awake, as in ancient days, in the generations of old! Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? Art thou not it that hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea, a way for the ransomed to pass over? Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

ISAIAH.

ARGUMENT.

The everlasting counsel, between the Father and Son, before all ages, the basis on which the security of Zion is laid. Her glory must be diffused among the nations. Her followers invited to join in the glorious work of evangelizing the heathen. Soliloquy and meditation upon the virtue and sufficiency of the blood of Christ, as the one offering for sinners; as the alone Rock on which Faith can lean for support and deliverance, amidst the trials of mortality, and the dissolution of worlds.

The praises of the eternal Spirit. His truth endures, in the succession of natural events, and the