Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1836-08-11
From the Knickerbocker for July 'nr'
A SUNDAY Hg1cfRE Ar SEA.
BY REV. JOHN PfERroNT.

| bYme, ~ lfreuuent sea.
Cribbed Close beneath narrow deck, washed BY the
AnadyeEse wind careering DER me from those eastern
And complaining as its shiverns wings sweep tiro'
This humble deck 50 near TO which my rocking couch
That Istrikeit if incautiosIy LIT my throbbinghead
Hath all day told, and tells me st Of falling Shetland
While Thave lain alone beneath, in weanness and
Nay not alOne; for, though voice Of wife or chill
Or friend or fellow worshipper hath fallen upon nv
Hast thou not even here, OGod; thy face and favor
Then, how have been desOlate, or how am alone
And whlethe wind hath roared above and tossed the
Have not my silent prisons, my God, gone up to thee
thee who sttest on the food and ridest the Storm
And bddest every wand that blows some work Of love
> PERFORM 'a 7% ~ ta 'att4F agl'.. 3ss's--
And though the winds have tossed, and though the
waves have washed my deck, -,
hath not by their weight been sunk ordyen ashore
49, a wreck; u - fury cease
For though thou hast not h.ished the blast nor id It's
lho9.St brought me up and sheltered me behind the
hills of Greece. s.=,,. f5'r,,',t.,- i ,i.,.s
1t was not my Preseryer thus the lines made to
In this same season." these same seas, unto thy
Who by this same Euroclydon, was driven tll ne at
On Malta's rock, from which I've come, a shivering
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Then let me murmur not that this velong day have
In weakness, and in WEAKNESS in loneliness and pain;
But rather, when think Of Paul, thy mercy let me
bless, J.0 81 ri 51a7gaa "a Suffered less
That though I've served thee less tan he, I've also
Yet will thou not forgive me- Lord if on this holy day.
think Of those love, and think how far they
s.5 way; ..-,4e. 49, lmany year,
And if that house of thine, where have served thee
That pleasant house, should claim from the tribute
NJ -s-- a. -.f.k.
Within its walls, even now, though Night Ter me hath
see my friends my family, my ock all worshippng;
For, between the pastor and his ock the foamy
That whiten Ger the waters Of quarter Of the wodt
And fhe lifts to thee with tears and darkness
dim, e. member him,
And asks if in their prayers his friends, his flock re-
Let not the thought of self that thus intrudes upon
Be set down as sin, God, in thy sight or in theirs
That holy house, where Ihave stood. and where these
So many years, The bread have broken, and poured
That speak Of the Redeemers love, and bring to mind
Of those he hath redeemed from sin-can that house
Forget those little children too whose angels DO be-
Their Fathers face, whose names, on EARTH are with
And on whose brows unfurrowed yet by time, care,
or sin, 2rts sf ll.g4 hrg sa54a Efl al salt.
The wafer have thrown that speaks Of purity within'
Forget the dead forget the dead! What witness do
they bear @ss .FytlsG-g lmy care
Of my influence on their spirits that are now beyond
That Ihaye spokentaithfuly2 Or that Through fear
was dumb A ,4g *, a..l Ito come 7 =
of righteousness, and temperance, and Of the world
The dead Shrink not my soul What witness, in
Or @ h SeTs seas c they Rnye bome
And they who're yet alive, what will what ought to
Of their report when, in their turn, they go to give ac-
Can forget the mourning ones, whove brough. their
load Of grief i. q g%i'.affa.e [Felief?
And, at thine altar laid it down. and found in prayer
Forget the needy who their wants hayesheTe before
Or the liberal hand that there hath given The poor their
Forget the young, who havinglaid their parents in the
~ dust, gFsa ;'3a,. h&a. M !. TRUST
Forget the hoary headed ones. whove bent their fee
BILE knees, u IS these?
With me so long in prayer 10 God, can forget all
And xhen do remember those whose worship I .hfvs
How can but indulge the hope when taken from their
That theywhose kindness in my heart will ever be en-
ehrined, lime in their mind
Whenthey've come to bow before the Lord have horne
And how am remembered then ?-as a Waterman
loving sleep? [for the sheep?
As shepherd who hath sought ease, and cared not
Or who, aware that his time short, that his
day would soon be DER,
With more of zeal than Of wisdom wrought till he could
. work no more? w
Shall l. then, work no more Tor wilt thou bring me
back ut length, ae,at strength
And, when the people ofmy care within those courts
meet, o,H7s ices greet?
viii the same faces welcome me--the same kind vol
No: there are eyes that rolledin Light when launch
ed upon the wave, 4.s ..a ::
And that, when / return-shonld e'er retmn-win
have closed in the sleep Of the grave:
And are there not those which fell on me then with
warm and friendly ray, 7.a - Il
And which, when they see me again. will turn with
icy glare away?
Father, by thy Christening hand that now is laid on
In weakness and in wandering upon this wintry sea,
In absence from thy holy house, to which loved go,
And from my home, my happy home, aad them who
By al this discipline Of thne--aI which, know, is
Shall T5e made ,U;ses man, and sortAier Of mv ,rst
An answer, o my guardian God, my wisdom win pre-
And wha. thy wisdom shall appoint it win be mine to
St. Paul's day, l. T. the day Of his shipwrecl, is
fixed; and witnessed the celebration OF Il in Malta,
the 10th instant. n ~ ---tst.a.t Is. G@yL VIA
I The 90 degrees oflongitude that lie between Cape
Matapan and Boston, make difference, in time, of
about Il hours e That while these sougn.s are
bed, between and 10 O'Clock at might, my people
are in the midst Of their afternoon service. Ina
AZ sea- sIying To- behind Cape MGtGpan, 49,.
| -4ab Sunday, l4sh February, 1896.
The Richmond Compiler. speaking Of family pride,
saysit would be CURIOUS task for the genealcgist TO
trace back family histories; and ascertain how many
are descended from the "gentle and virtuous young
women who were sent out blythe London Company
to Virginia on matrimonial speculation. In the year
1906 says the Compiler ninety fair ones embarked