pain.

Compared with him thrice happy you; Though small your stock your wants are few— Each wild desire your toils subdue, And sweeten rest, p. 241Remove all fancied ills from view, And calm your breast.

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Your labours give the coarsest food A relish sweet and cleanse the blood, Make cheerful health in spring-tide flood Incessant boil, And seldom restless thoughts obtrude On daily toil.

Those relish least who proudly own Rich groves and parks familiar grown; The gazing stranger passing on Enjoys them most— The toy possessed—the pleasure’s flown, For ever lost.

Then grateful let each murmur die, And joyous wipe the tearful eye: Erect a palace in the sky—  Be rich in grace: Loathe this vain world, and longing sigh For Jesu’s face.

Both rich and poor, who serve not God, But live in sin, averse to good, Rejecting Christ’s atoning blood, Midst hellish shoals, Shall welter in that fiery flood, Which hissing rolls.

But all who worship God aright, In Christ His Son and image bright, With minds illumed by Gospel light, Shall find the way p. 242That leads to bliss, and take their flight To heavenly day.

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There rich and poor, and high and low, Nor sin, nor pain, nor sorrow know: There Christ with one eternal glow Gives life and light— There streams of pleasure ever flow, And pure delight.

Christ says to all with sin oppressed, “Come here, and taste of heavenly rest, Receive Me as your friendly guest Into your cots; In Me you shall be rich and blest, Though mean your lots.

“Behold My hands, My feet, My side, All crimsoned with the bloody tide! For you I wept, and bled, and died, And rose again: And thronèd at My Father’s side, Now plead amain!

“Repent, and enter Mercy’s door, And though you dwell in cots obscure, All guilty, ragged, hungry, poor, I give in love A crown of gold, and pardon sure, To each above.”

Then hear the kind, inviting voice— Believing in the Lord rejoice; Your souls will hymn the happy choice To God on high, p. 243Whilst joyful angels swell the noise Throughout the sky.

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A fond farewell!—each 

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