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 effect as in real perspective. Objects are softened, and rounded, and rendered doubly graceful; the harsher and more ordinary points of character are melted down, and those by which it is remembered are the more striking outlines that mark sublimity, grace, or beauty. There are mists too in the mental as in the natural horizon to conceal what is less pleasing in distant objects; and there are happy light! to stream in full glory upon those points which can profit by brilliant illumination. Walter Scott.

ON THE DEATH OF HER ROYAL HIOHNE8S THE PIUNCESS CHARLOTTE.

'Tis not the luxury of grief That by indulgence finds relief, 'Tis not the heart that fools the eye, Ere yet the tearful cheek is dry; Which speaks the desolated breast, And asks of heaven no earthly rest: But 'tis the eye that cannot sleep, That cannot smile, that cannot weep; The heart that, feeling, scarcely beats, While the slow shivering blood retreats; The woe that others may not share, The night—the morning—of despair. For which no sunshine t.reaks the gloom That gathers o'er the yawning tomb ! Such, Coburg ! while in bliss elate, Has been thy doubly deathful fate :