The Fathers. 'THE fathers are in dust, yet live to God': so says the Truth; as if the motionless clay still held the seeds of life beneath the sod, smouldering and struggling till the judgment-day. and hence we learn with reverence to esteem of these frail houses, though the grave confines: sophist may urge his cunning tests, and deem that they are earth ;—but they are heavenly shrines. LYRA APOSTOLICA. The Grave. THERE is a calm for those who weep, a rest for weary pilgrims found; the storm that wrecks the wintry sky MONTGOMERY. Est Deus in nobis. VIVIT adhuc ueterum, qui sunt in puluere, patrum sacra Deo, docuit sic Deus ipse, cohors, ceu premerentur humo luctantia semina uitae, dum rupto eliceret caespite summa dies. has itaque exuuias, quamuis sapientia mendax mole putet tumuli semper inerte premi, debita conseruat reuerentia; quaeque sophistes esse lutum fingit, sunt ea templa Dei. Tumuli Quies. ALMA flentibus est quies; |