s worship long since he abjured ative strength; and now he looks

ugh nature's works, and yet must risepeaks he of Moses?

amiliar as thyself.

think thou said'st he had surveyed the world?

rom Ethiopia to the farthest East,-
ribes, and nations. He can speak
-gated Thebes, towered Babylon,
er Nineveh, vast Palibothra,
chored by the gates of morning,
Benares, where the sages teach
y of the soul, and that famed seat
s and warriors from Elishah's Isles
e Beauty, where great Memnon fell;-
groves, and superstitious caves,
strange symbols of the Deity;

us mountains, desert-circled seas,
ocean, lovely Paradises,

afading emeralds, in the deep.

Yet manhood scarce confirms his cheek.
All this

of knowledge has achieved-the wish

from the wise eternal truth.

Not found, where he has sought it, and has led ering fancy.

Oh! might I relate

ink me, father, of a thing

you asked. Sometimes, when I'm alone,

is coming, I have heard a sound

mysterious, melancholy sound

c in the air. Anon he enters.

Ha! is this oft?

'Tis not unfrequent

Only

u'rt alone?

I have not heard it else.

A sound like what?

Like wild, sad music, father;

ing than the lute or viol touched

skilful fingers. Wailing in the air,

seems around me, and withdraws as when

ne looks and lingers for a last adieu.

Nath. Just ere he enters ?

Tam. At his step it dies.

Nath. Mark me. Thou know'st 'tis held by righteous

men,

nat Heaven intrusts us all to watching spirits,

ho ward us from the tempter.-This I deem

-me intimation of an unseen danger.

Tam. But whence?

Nath. Time may reveal: meanwhile, I warn thee, -ust not thyself alone with Hadad.

Nath. I lay not to his charge; I know, in sooth,
ttle of him, (though I have supplicated,)

nd would not wound thee with a dark suspicion;
■t shun the peril thou art warned of; shun
hat looks like danger, though we haply err:
not alone with him, I charge thee.

he oracles are mute; dreams warn no more;
im and Thummim keep their glory hid;
y days are dark, my nights are visionless;
hovah hath forsaken, or, in wrath,
esigned us for a season. Times like these
e jubilee in hell. Fiends walk the earth,
sleading princes, tempting poor men's pillows,
pplying moody Hatred with the dagger,
st with occasions, Treason with excuses,
Eting man's heart, like the rebellious waves,
cainst his Maker. Watch, and pray, and tremble;
may the Highest overshadow thee!

Tam.

His awful accents freeze my blood.-Alas! w desolate, how dark my prospect lowers !— Hadad, is it thus those sunny days,

ose sweet, deceptive hopes, must terminate,

g in thy gentle looks, I saw

ith reverence, as my lips described
he patience, purity and faith.
ghty Father? Then, I thought
ftened by its earthly passion,
d, and tempered, to receive
on of a love which never dies.

changed! All tenderness you seemed, ocial as a playful child;

lofty meditation wrapped,
mountain top thou sit'st,
Inapproachable, or tossest
ge of passion, like the wreck
ud Tyrian in the stormy sea.

LESSON CXLI.

Immortality.-DANA.

- prison-house, thy grave, then, Love? eath cancel the great bond, that holds g spirits? Are thoughts, that know no bounds ired, rise upward, searching out Mind-the Father of all thoughtcome mere tenants of a tomb ?darkness, who the illuminate realms d light have visited, and lived ?— dreadful splendor of that throne, with gentle hand, the vail of flesh hung 'twixt man and it, revealed hrone, before which, even now, oved by prophetic power, bow down, et at their own natures awed? Thee know by a mysterious sense, unseen Presence, are they quenched, y on, hid from our mortal eyes ht day which ends not; as the sun light flings round the glittering stars?

And with our frames do perish all our loves? › those that took their root, and put forth buds, nd their soft leaves unfolded, in the warmth mutual hearts, grow up and live in beauty, en fade and fall, like fair unconscious flowers? e thoughts and passions, that to the tongue give speech, nd make it send forth winning harmonies,

at to the cheek do give its living glow,

nd vision in the eye the soul intense

ith that for which there is no utterance,-
e these the body's accidents?—no more ?—
› live in it, and, when that dies, go out

ke the burnt taper's flame?

O listen, man!

voice within us speaks that startling word, Man, thou shalt never die !"

Celestial voices

ymn it unto our souls: according harps,
angel fingers touched, when the mild stars
morning sang together, sound forth still
he song of our great immortality:
nick-clustering orbs, and this our fair domain,
ne tall, dark mountains, and the deep-toned seas,
in in this solemn, universal song.

listen, ye, our spirits; drink it in

om all the air. 'Tis in the gentle moonlight;
is floating midst Day's setting glories; Night,
rapped in her sable robe, with silent step
omes to our bed, and breathes it in our ears:
ght, and the dawn, bright day, and thoughtful eve,
1 time, all bounds, the limitless expanse,

s one vast mystic instrument, are touched

- an unseen, living Hand, and conscious chords
iver with joy in this great jubilee.

he dying hear it; and, as sounds of earth
-ow dull and distant, wake their passing sous
□ mingle in this heavenly harmony.

Western Emigration.-E. EVERETT.

1 of our population westward, has been attended ences, in some degree, novel, in the history of ind. It is a fact, somewhat difficult of explathe refinement of the ancient nations seemed y devoid of an elastic and expansive principle. Greece were enchained to her islands and her did not penetrate the interior. The language e of Athens were as unknown to the north of distance of two hundred miles from the capital refinement, as they were in Scythia. Thrace, tain tops may almost be seen from the porch of f Minerva at Sunium, was the proverbial abode 1. Though the colonies of Greece were scatterasts of Italy, of France, of Spain, and of Africa, of their population toward the interior took the arts did not penetrate beyond the walls of the they were cultivated."'

rent is the picture of the diffusion of the arts and ts of civilization, from the coast to the interior ! Population advances westward with a rapidity," pers may describe indeed, but cannot represent, vacity, to the mind. The wilderness, which one assable, is traversed the next by the caravans of ous emigrants, who go to follow the setting sun, guage, the institutions and the arts of civilized not the irruption of wild barbarians, come to visit f God on a degenerate empire; it is not the inciplined banditti, marshalled by the intrigues of nd kings. It is the human family, led out to posad patrimony.

es and nations, which are springing up in the valMissouri, are bound to us by the dearest ties of a nguage, a common government, and a common Before New England can look with coldness on myriads, she must forget that some of the best of food is beating in their veins; that her hardy chil