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"Death, the frightful daughter of Time, brings before him the inhabitants of our sorrowful world;" and, as they appear, the different priesthoods of the earth look in vain for the beings they had deemed divine. Everything being in a moment made clear to them, the dead hear in silence the eternal judgments. Henry dares not approach the throne whence are delivered the sentences "which so many of us presumptuous mortals try in vain to anticipate;" but nevertheless he cannot refrain from reasoning on what he sees:—;

This questioning receives from the throne itself, in accents of thunder, a reply which

Henry (so the voice says) is to beware of surrendering