I know the blight is there, And slowly it is spreading in my youth; And trembles every limb, As never trembled they in happier years, Thou dost not know, when pale My cheek appears, that to my heart the blood O, from the laughing earth, And all its glorious things, I could depart, Yet come not when the drear But come when I am dead: No terror shall be pictured on my face; And come thou to my grave: Ay, promise that come on some beauteous morn, When lightly in the breeze the willows wave, And spring's first flowers are born: Or on a summer's eve, When the rich snowy wreaths of clouds are turned Or in the solemn night, When there's a hush upon the heavens and deep, And when the earth is bathed in starry light, O, come thou there, and weep. Weep yet not bitter tears; Let them be holy, silent, free from pain: A chain that let it gaze On the earth's lovely things, and yet, whene'er And bring sometimes a flower To scatter on the turf I lie beneath, And gather it in that beloved bower That round us used to wreathe. And whatsoe'er the time Thou comest,-at the morn, or eve, or night, Still keep this thought, (for sweet It was to me when such bright hope was given,) That the dear hour shall come when we shall meet, Ay, surely meet, in heaven. A Noon Scene.-BRYANT. THE quiet August noon is come; And mark yon soft white clouds, that rest The cattle on the mountain's breast O, how unlike those merry hours In sunny June, when earth laughs out; When the fresh winds make love to flowers, And woodlands sing and waters shout!— When in the grass sweet waters talk, But now, a joy too deep for sound, Hushes the heavens, and wraps the ground- Away! I will not be, to-day, The only slave of toil and care; Away from desk and dust, away! I'll be as idle as the air. Beneath the open sky abroad, Among the plants and breathing things, Come thou, in whose soft eyes I see And where, upon the meadow's breast, Come-and when, amid the calm profound, Rest here, beneath the unmoving shade, The village trees their summits rear As chiselled from the lifeless rock. One tranquil mount the scene o'erlooks, Well might the gazer deem, that when, The good forsake the scenes of life, Like the deep quiet, that awhile New England's Dead.-I. McLELLAN, JUN. "I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is; behold her, and judge for yourselves.--There is her history. The world know it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Bos. ton, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever. The bones of her sons, falling in the great struggle for independence, now lie mingled with the soil of every state, from New England to Georgia; and there they will remain forever."-Webster's Specch NEW ENGLAND'S DEAD! New England's dead! On every field of strife, made red By bloody victory. Each valley, where the battle poured Its red and awful tide, Beheld the brave New England sword With slaughter deeply dyed. Their bones are on the northern hill, By brook and river, lake and rill, The land is holy where they fought, For by their blood that land was bought, The honored saviors of the land! O, few and weak their numbers were- But to their God they gave their prayer, The God of battles heard their cry, They left the ploughshare in the mould, To right those wrongs, come weal, come wo, And where are ye, O fearless men? I call:-the hills reply again That on old Bunker's lonely height, In Trenton, and in Monmouth ground, The grass grows green, the harvest bright, Above each soldier's mound. The bugle's wild and warlike blast An army now might thunder past, And they heed not its roar. The starry flag, 'neath which they fought, In many a bloody day, From their old graves shall rouse them not, For they have passed away. Installation Hymn.-PIERPONT. "LET there be light!"-When from on high, |