The Pastor sits in his easy-chair,
  With the Bible upon his knee.
From gold to purple the clouds in the west
  Are changing momently;
The shadows lie in the valleys below,
  And hide in the curtain’s fold;
And the page grows dim whereon he reads,...

1 PASTOR, thou art from us taken

      In the glory of thy years,

  As the oak, by tempests shaken,

      Falls ere time its verdure sears.


2 Pale and cold we see thee lying

      In God's temple, once so...

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