Book: The Christian Year

• King Charles the Martyr

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• Blest are the pure in heart

  Blest are the pure in heart,
  For they shall see our God;

  16 lines
• Thursday Before Easter

  "O holy mountain of my God,
  "How do thy towers in ruin lie,

  60 lines
• Palm Sunday

  Ye whose hearts are beating high
  With the pulse of Poesy,

  48 lines
• Dedication

  When in my silent solitary walk,
  I sought a strain not all unworthy Thee,

  28 lines
• Morning

  Hues of the rich unfolding morn,
  That, ere the glorious sun be born,

  64 lines
• Evening

  'Tis gone, that bright and orbed blaze,
  Fast fading from our wistful gaze;

  56 lines
• Advent Sunday

  Awake--again the Gospel-trump is blown -
  From year to year it swells with louder tone,

  78 lines
• Second Sunday In Advent

  Not till the freezing blast is still,
  Till freely leaps the sparkling rill,

  56 lines
• Third Sunday In Advent

  What went ye out to see
  O'er the rude sandy lea,

  66 lines
• Fourth Sunday In Advent

  Of the bright things in earth and air
  How little can the heart embrace!

  60 lines
• Christmas Day

  What sudden blaze of song
          Spreads o'er th' expanse of Heaven?

  75 lines
• St. Stephens Day

  As rays around the source of light
  Stream upward ere he glow in sight,

  48 lines
• St. Johns Day

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  36 lines
• The Holy Innocents

  Say, ye celestial guards, who wait
  In Bethlehem, round the Saviour's palace gate,

  56 lines
• First Sunday After Christmas

  'Tis true, of old the unchanging sun
    His daily course refused to run,

  68 lines
• The Circumcision Of Christ

  The year begins with Thee,
  And Thou beginn'st with woe,

  68 lines
• Second Sunday After Christmas

  And wilt thou hear the fevered heart
  To Thee in silence cry?

  64 lines
• The Epiphany

  Star of the East, how sweet art Thou,
  Seen in life's early morning sky,

  56 lines
• First Sunday After Epiphany

  Lessons sweet of spring returning,
  Welcome to the thoughtful heart!

  56 lines
• Second Sunday After Epiphany

  The heart of childhood is all mirth:
  We frolic to and fro

  68 lines
• Third Sunday After Epiphany

  I marked a rainbow in the north,
  What time the wild autumnal sun

  72 lines
• Fourth Sunday After Epiphany

  They know the Almighty's power,
  Who, wakened by the rushing midnight shower,

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• Fifth Sunday After Epiphany

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• Sixth Sunday After Epiphany

  There are, who darkling and alone,
  Would wish the weary night were gone,

  88 lines
• Septuagesima Sunday

  There is a book, who runs may read,
  Which heavenly truth imparts,

  48 lines
• Sexegesima Sunday

  Foe of mankind! too bold thy race:
  Thou runn'st at such a reckless pace,

  66 lines
• Quinquagesima Sunday

  Sweet Dove! the softest, steadiest plume,
  In all the sunbright sky,

  60 lines
• Ash Wednesday

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• First Sunday In Lent

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• Second Sunday In Lent

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• Third Sunday In Lent

  See Lucifer like lightning fall,
  Dashed from his throne of pride;

  54 lines
• Fourth Sunday In Lent

  When Nature tries her finest touch,
  Weaving her vernal wreath,

  65 lines
• Fifth Sunday In Lent

  The historic Muse, from age to age,
  Through many a waste heart-sickening page

  78 lines
• Monday Before Easter

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• Tuesday Before Easter

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• Wednesday Before Easter

  O Lord my God, do thou Thy holy will -
  I will lie still -

  80 lines
• Good Friday

  Is it not strange, the darkest hour
  That ever dawned on sinful earth

  60 lines
• Easter Eve

  At length the worst is o'er, and Thou art laid
  Deep in Thy darksome bed;

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• Easter Day

  Oh! day of days! shall hearts set free
  No \

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• Monday In Easter Week

  Go up and watch the new-born rill
  Just trickling from its mossy bed,

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• Tuesday In Easter Week

  Thou first-born of the year's delight,
  Pride of the dewy glade,

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• First Sunday After Easter

  First Father of the holy seed,
  If yet, invoked in hour of need,

  66 lines
• Second Sunday After Easter

  O for a sculptor's hand,
  That thou might'st take thy stand,

  60 lines
• Third Sunday After Easter

  Well may I guess and feel
  Why Autumn should be sad;

  48 lines
• Fourth Sunday After Easter

  My Saviour, can it ever be
  That I should gain by losing Thee?

  90 lines
• Fifth Sunday After Easter - Rogation Sunday

  Now is there solemn pause in earth and heaven;
  The Conqueror now

  72 lines
• Ascension Day

  Soft cloud, that while the breeze of May
  Chants her glad matins in the leafy arch,

  44 lines
• Sunday After Ascension

  The Earth that in her genial breast
  Makes for the down a kindly nest,

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• Whitsunday

  When God of old came down from Heaven,
  In power and wrath He came;

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• Monday In Whitsun-Week

  Since all that is not Heaven must fade,
  Light be the hand of Ruin laid

  84 lines
• Tuesday In Whitsun-Week

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• Trinity Sunday

  Creator, Saviour, strengthening Guide,
  Now on Thy mercy's ocean wide

  63 lines
• First Sunday After Trinity

  Where is the land with milk and honey flowing,
  The promise of our God, our fancy's theme?

  40 lines
• Second Sunday After Trinity

  The clouds that wrap the setting sun
  When Autumn's softest gleams are ending,

  80 lines
• Third Sunday After Trinity

  O hateful spell of Sin! when friends are nigh,
  To make stern Memory tell her tale unsought,

  40 lines
• Fourth Sunday After Trinity

  It was not then a poet's dream,
  An idle vaunt of song,

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• Fifth Sunday After Trinity

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• Sixth Sunday After Trinity

  When bitter thoughts, of conscience born,
  With sinners wake at morn,

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• Seventh Sunday After Trinity

  Go not away, thou weary soul:
  Heaven has in store a precious dole

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• Eight Sunday After Trinity

  Prophet of God, arise and take
  With thee the words of wrath divine,

  48 lines
• Ninth Sunday After Trinity

  In troublous days of anguish and rebuke,
  While sadly round them Israel's children look,

  60 lines
• Tenth Sunday After Trinity

  Why doth my Saviour weep
  At sight of Sion's bowers?

  48 lines
• Eleventh Sunday After Trinity

  Is this a time to plant and build,
  Add house to house, and field to field,

  48 lines
• Twelfth Sunday After Trinity

  The Son of God in doing good
  Was fain to look to Heaven and sigh:

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• Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity

  On Sinai's top, in prayer and trance,
  Full forty nights and forty days

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• Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity

  Ten cleansed, and only one remain!
  Who would have thought our nature's stain

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• Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity

  Sweet nurslings of the vernal skies,
  Bathed in soft airs, and fed with dew,

  56 lines
• Sixteenth Sunday After Trinity

  Wish not, dear friends, my pain away -
  Wish me a wise and thankful heart,

  44 lines
• Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity

  Stately thy walls, and holy are the prayers
  Which day and night before thine altars rise:

  72 lines
• Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity

  It is so--ope thine eyes, and see -
  What viewest thou all around?

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• Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity

  When Persecution's torrent blaze
  Wraps the unshrinking Martyr's head;

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• Twentieth Sunday After Trinity

  Where is Thy favoured haunt, eternal Voice,
  The region of Thy choice,

  48 lines
• Twenty-First Sunday After Trinity

  The morning mist is cleared away,
  Yet still the face of Heaven is grey,

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• Twenty-Second Sunday After Trinity

  What liberty so glad and gay,
  As where the mountain boy,

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• Twenty-Third Sunday After Trinity

  Red o'er the forest peers the setting sun,
  The line of yellow light dies fast away

  56 lines
• Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Trinity

  Why should we faint and fear to live alone,
  Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,

  56 lines
• Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Trinity

  The bright-haired morn is glowing
  O'er emerald meadows gay,

  64 lines
• Sunday Next Before Advent

  Will God indeed with fragments bear,
  Snatched late from the decaying year?

  80 lines
• St. Andrew's Day

  When brothers part for manhood's race,
  What gift may most endearing prove

  44 lines
• St. Thomas' Day

  We were not by when Jesus came,
        But round us, far and near,

  79 lines
• The Conversion Of St. Paul

  The mid-day sun, with fiercest glare,
  Broods o'er the hazy twinkling air:

  103 lines
• St. Matthias' Day

  Who is God's chosen priest?
  He, who on Christ stands waiting day and night,

  58 lines
• The Annunciation Of The Blessed Virgin

  Oh!  Thou who deign'st to sympathise
  With all our frail and fleshly ties,

  68 lines
• St. Mark's Day

  Oh! who shall dare in this frail scene
  On holiest happiest thoughts to lean,

  40 lines
• St. Philip And St. James

  Dear is the morning gale of spring,
    And dear th' autumnal eve;

  63 lines
• St. Barnabas

  The world's a room of sickness, where each heart
        Knows its own anguish and unrest;

  70 lines
• St. John Baptist's Day

  Twice in her season of decay
  The fallen Church hath felt Elijah's eye

  70 lines
• St. Peter's Day

  Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved,
  Watch by Thine own forgiven friend;

  72 lines
• St. James's Day

  Sit down and take thy fill of joy
  At God's right hand, a bidden guest,

  48 lines
• St. Bartholomew

  Hold up thy mirror to the sun,
  And thou shalt need an eagle's gaze,

  68 lines
• St. Matthew

  Ye hermits blest, ye holy maids,
  The nearest Heaven on earth,

  72 lines
• St. Michael And All Angels

  Ye stars that round the Sun of righteousness
  In glorious order roll,

  80 lines
• St. Luke

  Two clouds before the summer gale
  In equal race fleet o'er the sky:

  80 lines
• St. Simon And St. Jude

  Seest thou, how tearful and alone,
  And drooping like a wounded dove,

  52 lines
• All Saint's Day

  Why blow'st thou not, thou wintry wind,
  Now every leaf is brown and sere,

  56 lines
• Holy Communion

  O God of Mercy, God of Might,
  How should pale sinners bear the sight,

  68 lines
• Holy Baptism

  Where is it mothers learn their love? -
  In every Church a fountain springs

  48 lines
• Cathchism

  Oh! say not, dream not, heavenly notes
  To childish ears are vain,

  44 lines
• Confirmation

  The shadow of th' Almighty's cloud
  Calm on this tents of Israel lay,

  40 lines
• Matrimony

  There is an awe in mortals' joy,
  A deep mysterious fear

  56 lines
• Visitation And Communion Of The Sick

  O Youth and Joy, your airy tread
  Too lightly springs by Sorrow's bed,

  57 lines
• Burial

  And when the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her, and said unto
  her, Weep not. And He came and touched the bier; and they that

  69 lines
• Churching Of Women

  Is there, in bowers of endless spring,
  One known from all the seraph band

  30 lines
• Commination

  The prayers are o'er: why slumberest thou so long,
  Thou voice of sacred song?

  48 lines
• Forms Of Prayer To Be Used At Sea

  The shower of moonlight falls as still and clear
  Upon this desert main

  40 lines
• Gunpowder Treason

  Beneath the burning eastern sky
  The Cross was raised at morn:

  64 lines
• The Restoration Of The Royal Family

  As when the Paschal week is o'er,
  Sleeps in the silent aisles no more

  54 lines
• The Accession

  The voice that from the glory came
  To tell how Moses died unseen,

  48 lines
• Ordination

  'Twas silence in Thy temple, Lord,
  When slowly through the hallowed air

  52 lines

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