• 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,
      “I remember the days of old.”

    “Not clear nor dark,” as the Scripture saith,...

  • 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 dear.

      And the mourners' bitter sighing

          Falls unheeded on thine ear...