"Heaven above is softer blue Earth around is sweeter green; Something lives in every hue Christless eyes have never seen Birds with gladder songs o'erflow Flowers with deeper beauties shine. Since I know, as now I know, I am His, and He is mine."

"While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The angel of the Lord came down, And glory shone around."

"For sorrow is our joy, And joy our greatest sorrow. Elissa dies tonight, And Carthage flames tomorrow."

"And silence their mourning With vows of returning But never intending to visit them more. No never, no never, intending to visit them more."

"When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in thy breast; Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! forget my fate."

"O, lonely tomb in Moab's land, O, dark Bethpeor's hill, Speak to these curious hearts of ours, And teach them to be still! God hath His mysteries of grace — Ways that we cannot tell; He hides them deep, like the secret sleep, Of him He loved so well."

"All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all."

"He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well."

"By Nebo’s lonely mountain, On this side Jordan’s wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, There lies a lonely grave."

"This was the truest warrior That ever buckled sword; This the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word; And never earth’s philosopher Traced with his golden pen On the deathless page truths half so sage As he wrote down for men."