readings and recitations for jewish homes and schools

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Its sound aspired to Heaven and there abode ! Since then, though heard on earth no more, Devotion and her daughter Love Still bid the bursting spirit soar To sounds that seem as from above, In dreams that day's broad light cannot remove. LORD BYRON PSALM IV Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness ; In straits and in distress Thou didst me disenthrall And set at large : now spare, Now pity me, and hear my earnest prayer. Great ones, how long will ye My glory have in scorn ? How long be thus forborne Still to love vanity ? To love, to seek, to prize, Things false and vain and nothing else but lies ? Yet know the Lord hath chose, Chose to himself apart, The good and meek of heart (For whom to choose he knows); Jehovah from on high Will hear my voice, what time to him I cry. Be awed, and do not sin ; Speak to your hearts alone Upon your beds, each one, And be at peace within. Offer the offerings just Of righteousness, and in Jehovah trust. Many there be that say Who yet will show us good ? Talking like this world's brood ; But, Lord, thus let me pray ; On us lift up the light, Lift up the favor, of thy count'nance bright. Into my heart more joy And gladness thou hast put Than when a year of glut Their stores doth over-cloy, And from their plenteous grounds With vast increase their corn and wine abounds. In peace at once will I Both lay me down and sleep ; For thou alone dost keep Me safe where'er I lie: As in a rocky cell Thou, Lord ! alone, in safety mak'st me dwell. JOHN MILTON 4 THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALME The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed : While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need ? chapter{Section 4He leads me to the tender gras... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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