light, walked in light, and reflected a light around, infinitely more splendid than the light of day, and from whose resplendent countenance seemed, also, to beam a living stream of eternal life and joy, with which the light was animated.

Abdallah thought, that in this sweet and entrancing object, he saw God,-and yet lived. His dreams now embraced other subjects, and after mingling together images and fancies of the most incongruous nature, they settled into very pleasing imaginings, in which were intimately connected the dear and tender object in whom centered his joys and felicities-the hoped-for reward for all his toils and dangers.

Sleep's magic wand then conjured up the pretty form of the Lady Bona, whose eyes appeared lit up with joy and love at his return. His trials and misfortunes were forgotten in the gaze upon her ripened charms, but when in the act of imprinting a warm kiss upon her rosy lips, the spell, in which he was enchained, was broken, and he awoke to the reality of his miserable and dreadful situation.

Yet the thoughts of his dreams and of the lady-maiden remained strong upon him, and his heart seemed greatly relieved from those acute pangs which o'erpressed him the night before; hope within his breast revived with the ideal presence of his lady-love, and he ceased to yield to the despondency which then had brooded in his mind.

He rose from the chair on which he had slumbered, and approached the casement to ascertain the time of the night or morning. By the slight flush of grey light over the atmosphere, the morning was dawning, though thick pitchy-dark clouds hung over the east, which appeared as a barrier against the approach of day, through which it could not penetrate. By degrees, the clouds, here and there, lost a portion of their density, when the light of the rising day first penetrated these breaks in the clouds, and then poured through them in streams.

The edges of the cloudy breaks, then became slightly tinged with red, which got deeper and deeper, till they appeared for a

short space, fringed with the liveliest and brightest gold, which slowly changed to an appearance, silvery, light, and fleecy, while the great body of the clouds remained completely dark. It was the top of the morning, just before the sun appears on the horizontal line.

Abdallah Mirza watched with peculiar delight the breaking of day in so novel, bold, and beautiful a manner. His eye now rested on the densest part of the black clouds. As instant, it appeared shot with red in a circle no bigger than a shield, which, by degrees, increased larger and larger, and became illumined with a gay, lively, crimson hue. It then suddenly appeared a small concentrated blaze of fire, when, instantly emerged from its glowing face, The Ladye of the Rose, whose bright, light, and shining appearance was singularly beautiful, as contrasted with the deep red light in which part of the cloud at her back was arrayed. As she moved along the line of the clouds, their folds and form were most pleasingly defined and flushed with va

rious shades of crimson, which faded as she passed along, the clouds then resuming the darkness in which they were before enveloped. Her pretty instrument was to the wind, though its harmony was not heard, yet a few fleecy clouds, which floated beneath the great mass, seemed to waver and tremble with sweet sounds. The ethereal beauty, and magnificent harbinger of the coming day, however transcendant in charms, yet bore no comparison to the inimitable, and the incomparable refulgence of the Being, whom Abdallah had seen in his dreams.

The Ladye of the Rose proceeded on, mounting towards the heavens, higher and higher; at last, she passed before the moon going down in the west, the face of which, at the time, became red, as a blush upon the fair face of beauty, and tarried just as long. She then stood upon the horizon, her form as glowing and as red as the sun which was rising in the opposite direction, and she finally disappeared, dwindled in size, among the stars, which emitted, scarcely, a perceptible light.

Abdallah Mirza continued to gaze on the western sky, long after the God-like creature (whom he viewed, but only at the time he saw her, in the light of his tutelar spirit) could no longer be seen, and he was only restored to consciousness by the powerful emotions of his soul having vent in a few tears, when he found the heavy griefs, which had so sorely oppressed him, faded from his mind, and he prepared with cheerfulness, to meet the worst with which he was threatened, though not without hope of salvation.

It was most wonderful, that all remembrance of the divine creature passed off with her appearance, and the occasion connected with it; so that, afterwards, the peculiar tendency of his soul had its usual influence, and the impulses of his mind were the regulators of his conduct. Thus, in a few moments after the disappearance of the Ladye of the Rose, the recollection of her was as transitory as her presence in the air, and, the impression she left upon the mind, was as weak and flitting.

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