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 certainly spring a more vigorous plant, which scattering its seeds, might in time, phoenix-like, grow up a wood. And from the buried remains of the child, when its body was converted into its original elements,

Nay more; who will say, but while the body of the child, reduced to its original elements, is affording nourishment to the new-born star, its sonl may be destined to be its inhabitant, and the companion of its course, through the etherial space?

P. 74. On the first perusal of the opening lines of this poem, one would suppose thatthe poet meant, he had left his mistress young and fair, and had found