If He who made all things, And rules them, is our own, Then come, my gentle bride, And come, my child of love; Sweep, mighty ocean, sweep; The Time to weep.-ANONYMOUS. THERE is a time to laugh, When Joy may raise sows like the deep, And twine with wreaths of flowers the cup we quaff;—— But, O, when is the season not to weep? Is it when vernal suns Unfold the silken flower and satin leaf? Or when the hoar frost nips the fading ones, That frailer beings may refrain from grief? Is it when health and bloom Are painted on the smiling cheek of youth? Look not upon the brow, That shows no furrow from the plough of The prattling child at play years; May charm itself, and dry its tears awhile; Destruction has its home, And Mirth is destined to some favorite spot; Thou hast thy dark abode In the lone desert-in the prison's cell; And in the gayest scene, where ever flowed The tide of wine and music, thou dost dwell. Thou art where friends are torn And held asunder by reluctant space; And meeting friends-O, do they never mourn When Memory paints thine image on the face? Thy inmates of the breast All other passions—are but weak and brief; Then let the trifler laugh, And Joy lift his glad billows like the deep, And twine with wreaths of flowers the cup we quaff; It is far better for the wise to weep. The Autumn Evening.—PEABODY. BEHOLD the western evening light! The winds breathe low; the withering leaf So gently flows the parting breath, When good men cease to be. How beautiful on all the hills "Tis like the peace the Christian gives How mildly on the wandering cloud 'Tis like the memory left behind When loved ones breathe their last. And now, above the dews of night, But soon the morning's happier light And eyelids that are sealed in death Lines on revisiting the Country.—BRYANT. I STAND upon my native hills again, Broad, round, and green, that, in the southern sky, With garniture of waving grass and grain, Orchards and beechen forests, basking lie; While deep the sunless glens are scooped between, Where brawl o'er shallow beds the streams unseen. A lisping voice and glancing eyes are near, For I have taught her, with delighted eye, Here I have 'scaped the city's stifling heat, And gales, that sweep the forest borders, bear The song of bird and sound of running stream, Ay, flame thy fiercest, sun: thou canst not wake, From thy fierce heats a deeper, glossier green; He seems the breath of a celestial clime,- The Spirit's Song of Consolation.*-F. W. P. GREENWOOD. DEAR parents, grieve no more for me; My parents, grieve no more; Than even with you before. I've left a world where wo and sin And gained a world where I shall rest In peace and joy forever. Our Father bade me come to him, And he has made his heavenly house I heard the voice you could not hear, I saw, too, what you could not see, They smiling stood, and looked at me, And beckoned with their hand; *Supposed to be addressed by the departed spirit of a boy to his parents, who had lost two other children before him. They said they were my sisters dear, Then think not of the mournful time Colonization of Africa.-BRAINARD. ALL sights are fair to the recovered blind; Of shame and sorrow, when he cuts the cord, In the light yoke and burden of his Lord. Thus, with the birthright of his fellow man, 'Tis somewhat like the burst from death to life; When all the bonds of death and hell are riven, And mortals put on immortality; When fear, and care, and grief, away are driven, And Mercy's hand has turned the golden key, And Mercy's voice has said, "Rejoice-thy soul is free!" Fable of the Wood Rose and the Laurel.- IN these deep shades a floweret blows, |