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ADDRESS TO THE GARDNER OF BOTHWELL ON COMPLETING 50TH YEAR OF MINISTRY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pastor revered, beloved! The muse would fain
Last Line: The choir of heaven with harp and song! Farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Clergy; Honor; Service; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


PASTOR revered, beloved! the Muse would fain
Join on fair "Bothwell banks" the jubilant strain
Raised by thy grateful people; fifty years
Look down upon thy labours sown in tears—
The precious seed beneath thy watchful care
Hath sprung, bloom'd, ripen'd into harvests fair.
Returning with thy sheaves, rejoicing, thou
Uplift'st to heaven thy venerable brow;
For there thy treasure, there thy heart, and there
Thy treasures reaped on earth are garnered, where
They wait to join thee, ripe and full of days,
In heaven's eternal jubilee of praise.
A stranger I, forgive this simple lay,
I wish'd to greet thee, wished to hail the day,
O aged shepherd, when thy flock approve,
With honours meet and tokens of their love,
Thy ministrations. May the call come late
For thee, a chosen guest, to take thy seat
At marriage supper of the Lamb, and swell
The choir of heaven with harp and song! Farewell!





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