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flight again to the South ; the little faithful robin is every morning at my window, sweetly warning me that autumnal hours are at hand. The swallows are preparing for flight and inviting me to accompany them ; and yet, alas ! while I talk of flying, I am just able to crawl, and ask myself whether I shall be able to leave England at all.

Hymn 8. Earth, with all thy thousand voices. EDWARD CHURTON, D.D. (1800-74).

Psalm Ixvi. from the Cleveland Psalter : The Book of Psalms in English Verse, 1854, in which were included pieces from Miles Smyth s version of the seventeenth century.

Dr. Churton was the son of Archdeacon Ralph Churton, and was educated at Charterhouse, where he became one of the masters. He was the first head master of Hackney Church of England School, Rector of Crayke, 1835, Prebendary in York Cathedral, and Archdeacon of Cleveland. He was a well- known writer and poet.

Hymn 9. From all that dwell below the skies.

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3). Psalm cxvii. from The Psalms of David, 1719. Unaltered.

Hymn 10. Praise the Lord ! ye heavens, adore Him.

Psalm cxlviii. Given in*a four-page sheet, Hymns of Praise, for Foundling apprentices attending divine (service to render thanks, pasted at the end of the 1796 musical edition of Psalms, Hymns, and Anthems of the Foundling Hospital, London, and at the end of the editions of words only, published in 1801. It is headed Hymn from Psalm 148, Haydn. The authorship is not known.

Hymn 11. Meet and right it is to sing. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns for the Watchnight, No. 8 ; Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749 ; Works, v. 279. It is a paraphrase of the words in the Com munion Service, It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God, &c.

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