James Montgomery (poet)

"Natures prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free."

"Baptize the nations! far and nigh, The triumphs of the cross record The name of Jesus glorify, Till every people call Him Lord."

"When to the cross I turn my eyes, And rest on Calvary, O Lamb of God, my sacrifice, I must remember Thee."

"Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net, Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks; Till, swoln with captures, the unwieldy burden Cloggd their slow flight, as heavily to land, These mighty hunters of the deep returnd. There on the cragged cliffs they perchd at ease, Gorging their hapless victims one by one; Then full and weary, side by side, they slept, Till evening roused them to the chase again."

"Hymns should have unity,graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts,a conscious progress,a sense of completeness..and be easily understood."

"The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanishd, And all the minor spots of rock and verdure, The abodes of happy millions, were no more."