And to Him ever pray,
Will find it is the safest thing
His counsel to obey.




X.

THE DROWNING WORLD.


Now let us for awhile return
And see the startled world,
With all its pride and all its sin
Swift into ruin hurl'd.

The waters now are rising fast,
And men are in despair;
They can themselves no succur find,
No ear now hears their prayer.

They once derided him who preached
To them the coming wo,
But now no voice cries out, Repent;
Ah! whither shall they go?

The ark to them is firmly closed,
They cannot enter in;
They see the flood is rising round;