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Br one bright action great delinquents win ' More praise than saints by lives exempt from sin.

Gally Knight.

As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rased by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs; so it is beautifully ordered by providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity : winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.

Washington Irving.

Circles are praised, not that abound In largeness, but th' exactly round; So life we prize, that doth excel Not in much time, but acting well.

Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear

That mourns thine exit from a world like this;

Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stay'd thy progress to the seats of bliss.

No more confined to grovelling scenes of night,

No more a tenant kept in mortal clay, Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight,

And trace thy journey to the realms of day.