James Montgomery may refer to: (wikipedia)
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.
Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.
Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?
The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.
Time is eternity begun.
Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.
Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.
Tis human actions paint the chart of time.
