The "Prisoner of Providence," and "The Prisoner of

128, in the text, for Blessed are they read Blessed are all they.

99

53, Text wanting.

99, for Almoner read Guardian.

138, for children read childhood.

,, 154, Transpose two last verses.

,, 163, in the text, for thy faith read the faith.

,,168, Text wanting.

,, 186, in the text, for the maimed, the blind read the maimed, the lame, the blind.

PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE.

THE QUEEN

VICTORIA.

A CROWN is placed upon that royal head,
With lustres bright;

Ordained through distant hemispheres to shed
Its cheering light.

It rests with grace, on that unruffled brow,
That braided hair!

That form that blooms in spring-tide beauty nowyoung, the fair!

The

Earth's best accomplishments—a shining band—
Her mind adorn ;-

But most we hail her sovereign of our land—
To empire born!

Sacred her charge! for see the Almighty will
That charge consign—

She comes her high vocation to fulfil

By strength divine.

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She comes to bless her people—and to pour
With justice even,

Forth from her lap, a rich, indulgent store,
The boon of heaven.

She comes from dungeon darkness, to upraise
The drooping heart;

To give the mourner sweetest notes of praise,
For grief's keen smart.

And oh! who would not welcome with a smile,
That orient ray,

Which overspreads Britannia's favoured isle,
In this our day!

This day of gospel blessing! that illumes
The palace halls

With beauty, better far, than princely plumes,
Or pictured walls.

And there that light finds entrance, with a beam
That gilds the throne ;

Behold it now, like mercy's golden stream,
Fall softly down

Upon a group which God has gathered there
In bounteous love,

To mingle in the voice of praise and prayer,
To heaven above;

Whom He has called to serve Him, whilst His eye That looks on man,

Does ever, from His own high majesty,

Our projects scan.