IV.-MATTer and MIND. F in the vast material world IF No atom ever perished,-though In multitudinous changes hurl'd Upwards and downwards, to and fro, And all that in the present orb'd From silent growth and sudden storms, Is but a former past absorb'd In ever-shifting frames and forms,— From shape to shape, by heat or cold Have the great deeds of progress wrought? From earth's untold materials, man Can build, unbuild, can break or bind; But from mind's elements who can Transform, create another mind? Who rear new piles of thought from aught Who ever from the grave has brought L If God have left no blank,-no void Or perish—but to live again ;-- No atom of that earth can die- V.-THE REIGN OF LAW. All nature's arteries and veins, Our varied musings lead us to Some general law, that all contains. Through fictions and through fancies rude Some safe conclusions we may draw, That all, when rightly understood, All, all is order-all is law. And if by contradictions vexed, And pulled by various strings astray, In darkness lost, by doubt perplexed, We cannot see nor feel our way, Still let us know the Hand that guides, Will guide us through the clouds of night, That over all things law presides,— The law of love, the law of light. VI.—UNCHANGING CHANGES. they last, But are dim dreamings when they're past. All melted are the winter snows, And where they perished, whence they rose, No now existing record shows. And yet there reigns eternal Law, So man, the noblest work of God, Where'er he looks, above, around, It was so-is so-so shall be VII.-RESURRECTION. PRING is but another birth, SPRING RING is but are on earlier springs. Which to renovated earth Other resurrection brings. God hath moulded all that God's Power could mould, from mortal dust; Flowers and fruits, from clouds and clods, Life from ruin and from rust. 'Twas a wondrous hand that laid Still more wondrous was the might Souls with thoughts and hopes divine. Yes! 'twas a transcendent power Less than earth to heaven, and less Is the world we now possess, To the world of which we dream. Earthly love is faint and small, When compared with the embrace Through all time and o'er all space. VIII.-CONFIDENCE. [S it not strange that men who loudest boast Are those who tremble most and threaten most, In their perplexities, if e'er the torch Henry Francis Lyte. 1793-1847. HENRY FRANCIS LYTE was born at Ednam, a village situated on the Eden, a tributary of the Tweed near Kelso, Roxburghshire, on the 1st of June, 1793. He was educated at Portora, Inniskillen, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he distinguished himself in three successive years by taking the English poem prize. Though at first intending to follow the medical profession he entered the Church (1815), and accepted a curacy at Taghmon, near Wexford, afterwards removing to Marazion, Cornwall (1817), where he married. Subsequently he held curacies at Lymington, Hampshire (1819), and Charlton, Devon, and finally took charge of the new parish of Lower Brixham, Devoushire, where he ministered for five-and-twenty years. His "Tales on the Lord's Prayer in Verse," written at Lymington, were published in 1826, his "Poems Chiefly Religious" in 1833, and his "Spirit of the Psalms," a metrical version of the Psalter, in 1834. His "Remains," containing poems, sermons, letters, etc., and a memoir by his daughter, was published in 1850, and a volume of his Miscellaneous Poems in 1868. He also published an edition of the poems of Henry Vaughan, with a memoir, in 1847. Lyte had a tender feeling for nature and a sense of the sublime, but he lacked originality and the |