William Hayley

Hymn written for the Rev. Mr. Walker, of Chichester.

Where may zeal due succour find,
Man, for thy unguarded mind?
To shield thee, when temptations reign,
From folly's snare, and vice's bane?

The law of God, a Saviour's law,...

Monitory Verses. To A Young Lady, Who Indulged Too Gloomy Ideas Of Our Sublunary State.

William Hayley

Dear nymph of a feeling, and delicate mind!
Whose eye the rash tears of timidity blind,
When fancy alarm'd takes a heart-chilling hue,
And the prospect of life is all dark in thy view,...

Two Hymns Written for the Asylum of Female Orphans.

William Hayley

I.

Parent to those, whose infant days
No human parent know;
To thee, O Charity! the praise
Of filial love shall flow.

Base want, and vice, a foe to all!...