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’ 'To'see life’s blessings, ono by one, subside,
—Not man, my dear child, but one greater than he!
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7 Miss Hotrorp.
And this was she! the peerless and the bright, ©
The false world’s darling! she who did possess
[And held awhile in Europe’s dazzled sight]
Who love the world—mark this mute mretchodatn, “
And gravo it on your hearts, for it doth rea
To regions unexplored by eloquence ot epeaeh!
Nature gave loveliness, and fate gave power,
And millions lavished incense,—poets
T amaranth‘over the royal bower;
‘For Gallia’s lilly every lyre wag strung,
"Pride of all eyes and-theme of every tongue ~~
“Love, awe, and wonder were her eee
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She, held in poise a nations hopes and ‘foars—
-Gracious, and mighty, yet there camo an hour
Of desolation; and away it swept, :
In ono rude whirlwind, empire, pomp, and power! !
On the fair brosy, the hoary winter cre Ph
OF sorrow, not of Time those oyes have wept,
Till Grief had done with tears, and calm and cold, \
Tired with its own excess, in stupor 5! lept,
Or gazed in frozen wonder to behold.
The bldek and hideous page of destiny unroll’d,
contain—-
in advance.
“Yot trace ‘these faded lines! For they impart &e. will
A tale may do-your careless bosoms good! ! . :
Muse 0’ er the fragments of 'a broken heart,
Tow ;-~ye whose jocund mood
Broken
Insatiate feeds on Pleasure’s tempting oe
thou;
And is this all? No —ye may learn beside
That all which fate can threaten may be borne; 3
its wild extremos from tonderness to scorn,
But as the changes of our April morn
Cents.
LETTERS
¥ :
FIRST ENQUIRIES.:
BY CHARLES SWAIN,
Father, who made all, the beautiful flowers,
And the bright green shades of the surnmer bowers?
IN REPLY TO FIVE ESSAYS, -
PPEARED IN THE GOSPEL MESSENGER
SOUTHERN EPISCOPAL REGISTER :
CONTROVERTING SEVERAL STATEMENTS MADE
: . BY:
Co, Poter
Ryan,
3B. Cc.
“—Not the sun, my dear child, but one greater t than he! IN His THIRTEEN LETTERS,
_.Fathor, whose hand formed the pier tinted sky,
. RIGHT REY, "BISHOP BOWEN.
CORRECTED AND REVISED FROM THe UNITED erates
CATHOLIC. MISCELLANY,
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Father, from whence came our own lovely land, But chiefly of the fair and bent.
With its ri d di 3 ‘ Corton.
‘TO THE READER, '
Its tall frowning rocks and its shell-spangled shore? :
Were these not the works of some people of yoro?—
Owe these not their birth to man’s own good decree?
—Not to man, my dear child, but one greater than ho!
His glory alone, love, ereated on high, :
The sun, moon, and stars, and the beautiful sky,
It was He formed the land, and no people of yore,
JEREMIAM DENNERY, AT THE PRINTING-OFFICE OF THE
BEMINARY, AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT PRE END-BTREETs
NORTH-EAST OF BROAD*ST, CHARLESTON, 8.
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