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purely just exists not: and if he did, why should he complain of the trials, which his virtue undergoes, or of the death which assures him a recompense? Recompenses are not wholly in heaven, nor wholly on earth.'

I heard; my trembling lips could hardly articulate, 'Why do we sometimes see the just cause overcome? The most righteous nation'

'Stop! tell me, where is the righteous cause, which crimes have not stained? Where is the nation, which has not called rapine and murder to its aid? which, after having been violent in the days of its triumph, has not shown itself pusillanimous, mean, apostate, in the time of adversity? Produce the man, the party, the people, who have for their device Justice and Constancy, and I engage to deliver up to them the world, and to deliver it to them forever.'

I was silent, astonished at what I had heard. The angel resumed; 'All the error of mortals consists in confounding happiness with prosperity. Oftentimes prosperity is, in my hands, only a chastisement, as well for them, to whom it is granted, as for those, to whom it is denied. Happiness does not arise from success obtained, but from duties accomplished. It is in me that it resides. I dwell in the bosoms of all men, to purify and embellish their lives. To them, who are wise enough to understand me, I impart ineffable pleasures, of which the misjudging know not: I am Felicity; I am Glory; and through me alone Love exists.'

In saying these words, the Immortal extended towards me one of her hands. While I rapturously seized the divine hand, it seemed as if my soul, borne upon wings of fire, was soaring upwards to associate with the contemplations and the delights of the celestial sanctuaries. In the midst of this divine ecstacy, I ventured to raise my eyes towards the daughter of heaven, and started to find in her place only a simple woman, but of ravishing beauty, grace, and nobleness, having a look of inspiration in her countenance and her smile, her brow radiant, her head illumined by the vivid reflection of the dazzling splendors of the firmament.

Overcome with emotion I awoke; and although the soft and noble images, which had just been filling me with rapture, were vanished, yet a delicious tranquillity succeeded to the late commotion of my senses; and the vision of the night, while it purified my soul, poured into it a holy enthusiasm in the cause of virtue and of liberty.*

* This piece is adopted, with some alterations, from Salvandy's Don Alonzo.

ISABEL OF CASTILE,

A LEGEND OF VALLADOLID.

Hasta que ya los tiempos gloriosos
de aquel divino Aragones llegaron,
y de aquella Isabel, que el mundo llama
Décima de las nueve de la fama.

¡O santos Reyes, para dicha nuestra

nacidos en el mundo! o claras almas !
España debe a vuestra heroyca diestra
en su alterado mar tan dulces calmas:
Castilla adore la corona vuestra,
texida de laureles y de palmas,
donde enlazando sus humildes hiedras,
se enriqueció de tan preciosas piedras.
Quedó limpia por vos, puesta en huída
la vil canalla, en todo su distrito,
por quien Jerusalén se vió rendida
al gran poder de Vespasiano y Tito:
la Fé ensalzada, la hermandad temida;
cesó el herege, enmudeció el delito.

LOPE DE VEGA'S ANGELICA.

Quién podrá contar las exceléncias de esta cristianísima e bienaventurada Réïna, mui digna de ser loada por siempre? Allende de ella ser castísima é de tan noble é excelente prosápia é progénie, tuvo ella otras muchas excelências de que nuestra Sñore la adornó, en que excedió é traspasó á toda las Reinas, así cristianas como de otra lei, que antes de ella fueron, no digo tan solamente en España mas en todo el mundo, de aquellas de quien por sus virtudes é por sus grácias é por su saber é poder su memória é fama vive.

Fué muger mui esforzadisima, mui poderosa, prudentísima, sábia, honestísima, casta, deovta, discreta, cristinanísima verdadera clara sin engaño, mui buena casada, leal é verdadera, sujeta á su marido, mui amiga de buenos, ansí religiosos como seglares, limosnera, edificadora de templos, monastérias, iglesias.

Fué muger fermosa, de mui gentil cuerpo é gesto é composicion, mui celosa del pro é bien destos réinos, é de la justicia é gobernacion de ellos: soverana en el mandar, mui liberal, en su justicia justa, en el juício siempre proveida.

ANDRES BERNALDEZ,

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