And drive the night .of svn away ;

That man, like them, from darkness free,

May end this course and rest in thee.
In this, m^st gracious Father, hear.
Through Ohrist, thine equal Son, our prayer

Who with the Holy Ghost and thee

Resides and reigns eternally.
Nor is j^erne Bex altissime much less recognisable :

Saviour Christ, God most high,
Whose glorious triumph decks the shy,
Arising from the world's defeat.
With tyrant-death beneath your feet;

Called from above you as your own
In right of God resume the throne ;
And thence this universe survey,
Whilst all your creatures homage pay.
Both heaven and earth, nay death and hell,
And all that in their confines dwell,
With bended knees fall down before
The general Victor and adm-e.
The angels stand ammsed to see
Such change in our mortality ;
That human flesh, the root of sin.
Should serve their God to triun/ph in.
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May he our great rexoard bestow.
Whose influence o'er this world below
Makes heaven alone seem worth our care.
And all things else insipid here.
Then, Lord, with the release of sin,
Let thy triumphant grace begin.
And sweetly draw our hearts to thee.
Our centre and felicity.
But when our Judge in clouds shall come,
GlotJied like a storm and armed with doom,
Our lot may be to 'scape the rod,
And meet with a reconciling God.
May endless worlds Christ's triumpihs own.
Ascending his immortal throne;
And one eternal praise repeat
The Father and the Paraclete.
In Jam Christus astra ascenderat those who know Dryden best
will probably fix on

Three hours from the sunrise were past,
When, lo, in a surprising blast.
The twelve at prayers, the ghostly God
Came down to take his new abode.
