commending the religion of Christ by their conversation and example to all around them. This, and this alone, can insure domestic comfort, and happiness, and peace. DIRGE. DROPPED away!-We may not hold them; Love is deep! Throbbing pulse and burning tear Let them be!-enough of pain; The veil and lips that cannot speak ;- Do we call the swallow back? Loves the ship the iceberg's track? Let them sleep! Let them slumber!-Here no more Love is deep! Now that billows' war is waged, Now the waters are assuaged: Peace walks the world where seas have raged― Let them sleep! Make in the wide earth space for two; Both were loving-one was true: Lay them not asunder now For the frown upon their brow— Love is deep! Severed were they in their prime, Let them sleep! We who mourn them gone before, Till yon Pilot, hailed again, Steers us o'er the self-same main ; Love is deep! Prayer shall watch them, on her knees; Thought shall follow like a breeze: Love can melt, though Death may freeze, Let them sleep! Though our hopes be torn and dead, Let us arise and go, and pray Love is deep! Soon enough the darkness falleth; Soon enough the earth-worm galleth :— Wait we till the Angel calleth, "LET THEM SLEEP." THE ANGEL-BRIDE. I SHOULD have known thou wouldst have died Thy holy eyes had nought of earth Thy lip ne'er curved in heartless mirth; I should have known thou wouldst have died, I loved thee then, I love thee yet! Though Time's dark wings have pressed my brow, Thy spirit from the clay departed Has watched o'er me when loneliest hearted. The forms of earth and visioned air How human things the heart deprave- Or scarce would wish to cease to be. I cherish still my marriage ring, Though long on earth may be my stay, I feel I have not long to stay- Though I have sinned, to meet thee there; For well I feel-full well I see The bliss-the doom hath come at last, CHARACTER OF FENELON. THE history of Fenelon exhibits the presence and operation of a predominant idea. Bringing into existence with him a soft, gentle, and loving nature, which happily was fostered and developed by the congenial influences of education, he was led to select the ecclesiastical profession. By that natural affinity which gives to minds their most appropriate employment, he always found himself in spheres of action where there was a special call for the mild restraints and nurturing dew which his character was fitted to afford. The performance of his duties reacted on his mental and moral qualities, giving to them each an intensity and fixedness which raised them to the highest state of culture; so that the tranquil, earnest, |