=ions lived, ng shall she ht after night, moonbeam, now, ial frame, pon her bones, nter-time, ads as oft, ile unheld. n gloom. e, a light -beyond the sun- shall part again stern sky; -ney bright; of care, eaceful beam, mly aspect wear, auty teem. THE PENITENT'S RETURN. MRS. HEMANS. My father's house once more, In its own moonlight beauty! Yet around, Is it the brooding night? Is it the shivery creeping on the air, All solemnized it seems, And still'd, and darken'd in each time-worn hue, And this high elm, where last I stood and linger'd-where my sisters made How spirit-like a tone there At evening-hours, while soft winds waved his hair! My soul grows faint with fear! SACRED HARMONY. Is it indeed the night 241 That makes my home so awful? Faithless-hearted! No outward thing is changed; And, long from Nature's melodies estranged, Therefore, the calm abode By thy dark spirit is o'erhung with shade, The night-flowers round that door, Stil breathe pure fragrance on the untainted air; And must I turn away? -Hark, hark!-it is my mother's voice I hear, Sadder than once it seem'd-yet soft and clearDoth she not seem to pray? My name!-I caught the sound! Oh! blessed tone of love-the deep, the mildMother, my mother! Now receive thy child, Take back the Lost and Found! Faithless-hearted! hath departed, es estranged, dread. ith shade, e voice of God he untainted air; y no more =voice I hear, p, the mildthy child, ked to birth; Nor is that power, Necessity, That Nature formed this glorious whole; In worlds which science cannot reach, "God!-God made man a living soul." What is the Soul ?-a deathless ray- And bowed the starry globe of night. From stern Necessity call grace Call order from the dreams of ChanceBid your material god replace The heavenly fountain we advance: The seasons would return no more, The erring planets lose their track, Confusion stalk from shore to shore, And ruin shout to chaos back! Can knowledge, then, oppress the brain, And blind our intellectual sight?- Not knowledge hath debased the sense, THE CLIFT OF THE ROCK. Ar Horeb's foot the man of God delay'd, B2 |