...widow'd isle, And soothes the pang an angel's flight had given! PSALM AND HYMNS. I. PSALM CXXXVII. " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion!" 1. ON thy banks, O Euphrates, near Babylon's stream, Reclining, we wept in deep silence and grief;...

...O give thanks unto the Lord of lords; for his mercy endureth for ever. Psalm 137. Super flwnina. Y the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. 2 As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they that led us away...

...27 O give thanks unto the Lord of lords ; for his mercy endureth for ever. Psalm 137. Super flumina. BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. 2 As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they that led us away...

...E2 figure. The Psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture. ' By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion.' But what is more remarkable, we find Judea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,...

...surely I am not a wanderer; neither am I in a knd of strangers." LINES WRITTEN IN A LEAF OF THE BOOK. " By the waters of Babylon we sat down, and wept when we remembered thee, O Sion!" " Carolan, thy happy love No jealous doubts, no pang can prove; Thy generous Lord is kind as brave,...

...give thanks unto the Lord of lords ; for his mercy endureth for ever. Psalm 137. Super Aumina. ТЭТ the waters of Babylon we •*"^ sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. 2 As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they that led us away...

...cherubs and on cherubim," &c. .. Now let us take a poetical passage of the most pathetic kind : — " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, oh ! Sioit." With regard to lite fust of these passages, to show how just is the general remark of...

...On cherubs and on cherubim," &c. Now let us take a poetical passage of the most pathetic kind: — " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and "wept, when we remembered thee, oh! Sion." With regard to the first of these passages, to shew how just is the general remark of HORACE,...

...Arglwydd. 6 Er bod yr Arglwydd yn chel, etto efe a edrycn ar yr sel : ond y balch a edwyn efe hirbell. 3 For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody, in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the' Lord's song : in a strange land? & HI...

...this figure. The Psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture : " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion." But what is more remarkable, we find Judea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground,...