Believe that angels stay the thrilling

tear

For those they lov'd, for those who lov'd

them here;

Trust that to those pure souls e'en now Shadowings of bliss and gleams of future are given

heaven;

Not in the obstruction cold of mortal clay

Deem that they sleep till earth shall pass away;

But lift e'en now their intellectual eyes 'Midst visions of the mediate Paradise; View him that rose with healing in his

wings,

And listen high unutterable things.

Bethink thee,-for thou know'st,some chequering years

Shall sweep like shadows o'er this vale of tears;

When thou shalt every mortal pang resign,

And their exulting spirits spring to thine!

The "Monody" is a selection and description of the circumstances in which the sad event is clothed in the author's mind. With this one remembrance all objects are associated. This is nature. Poetry only reveals and

illustrates the sentiment.

The reader probably recollects the into the mouths of Philip of France, Dialogue which Shakspeare has put Pandulpho the Pope's legate, and Constantia, the mother of Prince Arthur, a prisoner in the hands of the cruel King John:

Pan. You hold too heinous a respect of grief.

Con. He talks to me, that never had a

I see, I feel them present; their known looks

And lov'd familiar shapes; where'er I wend,

In day-light or the gloom of fading eve, Through peopled marts and streets that thronging sound

With hum of multitudes, and most, oh most!

Among the hills and hedgerows, and near brooks

Where sedges dip their verdure, and o'er heaths

Sprinkled with yellow broom, whence far the range

Of azure mountains like a mist appears Above the channel'd sea; and when, deep sunk

In sleep's o'erpowering heaviness, with eyes

That waking inward view th' external

world,

Its colour'd shadows, and its moving forms,

I still am doom'd to see-for ever there

For ever!-by my side and in my sight, Th' inseparable phantoms: they attend My rising up and lying down: pursue My steps, and flit around me with their bright

Yet shadowy presence-angels of the dead!

The effects of a superior moral and religious education are most pleasingly delineated:

Thus pass'd their lives; their vernal lives so sweet,

And brief as sweet; inheritors of love, Playmates of nature, they were fit for

heav'n,

And gather'd for that Eden, which their faith

Saw, though unseen: the book of life to them

Spread unreserved its page, and they would turn

A solemn gladden'd aspect, when the tongue

Of rapt Esaias spake Jehovah's name, The God Creator and the Saviour God, With whom is none: from the pure word itself

They drank as from a fountain, and, unspoir'd

By dark deceits and vain philosophy,
Sate meek disciples of the Son of God.
They saw the gracious Father in his
works

Redeeming or creating; and they traced His finger in the stars, and heard his voice

Among the trees, as though the earth

was still

That garden where he walk'd; for him they fear'd

E'en in his meanest creatures : reverenc'd him

In the rook's instinct and the emmet's craft:

The sooth'd familiar reptile fled them

not:

The speckled toad beneath the thicket lay,

His bright eye shining like a gem, nor shunn'd

Their footstep; and the brutal urchin stood

Rebuk'd, who in their presence sought to harm

One creature that had life: the most opprest

Or scorn'd to them were dearest―.

take of a mysterious or ominous chaSome of the incidents described parracter. They who attach least importance to them must still respect and spare the apprehensiveness of grief, which alone, as the author says,

--can feel and know The mystery of signs, and read, in types And shadows, warnings of th' event to

come.

planet at the time referred to, which, he says, from the attention that it excited in his family circle, has become associated with recollections of deep and melancholy interest. The ode is so beautiful that we too must transcribe it :

To the Planet Jupiter.

I look'd on thee, Jove! till my gaze
Sauk smote from the pomp of thy blaze:
For in heaven, from the sunset's red
throne

To the zenith, thy rival was none.
From thy orb rush'd a torrent of light
That made the stars dim in thy sight:
And the half-risen moon seem'd to die,
And leave thee the realm of the sky.
I look'd on the ocean's broad breast,
The purple was pale in the west :
But down shot thy long silver spire,
And the waves were like arrows of fire.
I turn'd from the infinite main;
Thy light was the light of the plain;
"Twas the beacon that blazed on the

hill

Thou wert proud, pure, magnificent still."
A cloud spread its wing over heaven:
By the shaft of thy splendour 'twas
riven:

And I saw thy bright front through it shine,

Like a God from the depth of his shrine.
But, planet of glory and awe!

It was not thy lustre I saw :
For my soul was absorb'd in the night
When last I had gazed on thy light.
I thought of the hand I had held:

Of the heart which its pressure reveal'd:
Of the eye fix'd with mine on thy

beam

And the world was forgot in my dream. Flame on then, thou king of the sky! For thy brightness is joy to my eye: For this hour thou art beaming above The home of my wife and my love.

A happy and more than poetical, a religious, use is made of the pleasant circumstance of the "Brothers" having passed their last earthly eve in one of the humble places of worship with which our country happily abounds.

That rustic temple open'd not its gate To earthly guests; it was the porch of heaven.

The occurrences of the next melancholy day are told in the privileged tone of sorrow, and without pomp or

The emblems of domestic desolation, the vow, and the exclamation of the following passage, speak at once to the heart, and especially to the parental heart, that has known bereavement : Our dwelling-house is desolate: this foot

Shall ne'er repass the threshold which ye pass'd:

Silence is in the walls that rang so late To your sweet laughter, and th' unheeded bird

Flits round the chamber of your happy sleep:

The plants ye loved are wither'd like yourselves:

The wrecks and relics of your curious search,

Gleanings from fields and woods, the air and streams,

The weed, the pebble and the insect's wing,

Remain, the records of your innocent tastes;

Remembrancers of days of happiness That never can return: your pen's known trace,

The limnings of your pencil's opening skill,

Oh! thought of agony!-are these then all,

All that are left me of your lovely selves?

The conclusion of the Monody sheds a ray of cheerfulness and hope over the mind so long darkened and oppressed by the contemplation of this calamity. The author beholds the scenery on the banks of the accustomed river in the gloom of his own thoughts; but the setting sun shoots forth an unwonted splendour, and he exclaims,

How the mind, effused
Out of itself, communicates the hue
Of its own subtle spirit to the forms
Of outward things, and makes the woods
and streams

Respond to its discourse, and character
Their image to its passion! I beheld
A grave of waters, deepening dark and
still,

Beneath me, and above, the tinging

gleam

Of light from heaven; the resurrection's dawn

Gilding the funeral vault; and in the The Christian's rest of glory; light and

sun

strength

In his decline-the earnest of his rise.

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