in the pure and fervent love of God towards one another, as becometh brethren in the spiritual and natural relation. So my God, that has blessed me with his abundant mercies, both of this and the other and better life, be with you all, guide you by his counsel, bless you, and bring you to his eternal glory; that you may shine, my dear children, in the firmament of God's power, with the blessed spirits of the just: that celestial family, praising and admir

ing him the God and Father of it, for ever and ever. For there is no God like unto him, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob; the God of the Prophets, the Apostles, and martyrs of Jesus; in whom I live for ever.- -So farewell to my thrice dearly beloved wife and children. Yours, as God pleaseth in that which no waters can quench, no time forget, nor distance wear away, but remains for ever.

WILLIAM PENN.

IN dreams of fancy's wildest power,
Oft has my kindling eye surveyed
The image of some radient maid
Descending to my summer bower:
And I have gazed the fleeting hour
Upon the soul-entrancing shade,
Till e'en reality would seem
As like the gilding of a dream;
As if, indeed, from breathing air,
Was formed the life-blood goddess
there.

But when the latest beams of e'en
Illumed no more the face of heaven,
And chill across my brow has past
The melancholy boding blast,
At once the spirit, all would fade;

Nor leave behind one trace, to tell
Remembrance of the vanished maid,
Or the beguiling spell.

Not so of her, whom once these eyes,
In no delusive dream, beheld,

Child of the earth-now of the skies.
A beauteous tree, untimely felled,
That flourished in the lonely glade.
While in mortal view she dwelled.
Fair as the forms that fancy drew,
In native loveliness arrayed,

In native loveliness she grew:

But, like those shadowy forms untrue
That on the musing eye decay,
She too has been-and pass'd away!
Has pass'd away-but in my mind
A living trace is left behind,
The image of her being fair,
That finds not an oblivion there.

Sad is her story, sad her fate

The sorrowing muse would now relate. As sad the verse shall flow. Oh! cast in beauty's heavenly mould, Though meek of temper, mild of mien, Thou could'st not 'scape the venomed smart

That eager anguish gives the heart;

Thou could'st not shun the form of wo, The deadning touch of sorrow cold, Nor shield thee from her arrow keen.

Swift o'er thy head the moments rolled
That found thee with unruffled breast.
Ah! hope's bright sunshine soon was
o'er!

And holy peace, a smiling quest,
Fled from the bosom it had blest.

That holy peace retained no more.
Yet let me, ere the fatal hour,
That saw her victim to its power,
Came, like the frost in opening spring
That nips the unsuspecting flower

Of zephyr's nourishing-
While yet upon her lips were seen,
Dimpling, the wreathed smiles serene,
Let me, with mournful memory, trace
The beauties of her matchless face,
And bid the touching form appear
Arrayed in all all its graces here.

inspiring form?

Think'st thou the picture then could vie With her who meets my inward eye? Yet such her charms. Nor these alone:

Each bland accomplishment combined
To add its polish to the mind,
And the mild virtues were her own.
In that dear face a glance might read,
From every ruffling passion freed,

The transcript of her gentle breast,
In each pure look exprest;
A placid sweetness, that might lead
The lion, rage, to rest.

Sometimes a pensive cast would gloom

(As o'er the sun the light clouds fly) In deeper shade her feature's bloom, Fled the young smile and mirth unholyAnd she, the seeming child of melancholy,

By sweetly-sadd'ning thoughts deprest, Would muse on fleeting forms of folly; And often she would sigh.

What wonder if in heart so soft,
A prey to its own feelings oft-
What wonder if within that breast

That all the gentler passions knew,
The milder sympathies had blest,
Love, with the throng, should find a place
And every meaner influence chase?

He in that sanctuary grew, And triumphed o'er the rest. Yes, there was one the fervent maid With looks of tenderness surveyed, Far distant, far the thought of illAnd him she loved in truth. She found her fondness all repayed, And with soul's delighting thrill Her vows were plighted to the youth. Ah! hapless pair! the wintry blast O'er blooming love's elysium past; Ravaged the bowers of heavenly bliss, And chilled upon your lips the kiss!

The smile of joy her features wore !
But her heart felt that smile no more.

O, love connubial, how thy couch, profaned,

From rapture changes to a bed of thorns;

When by parental pow'r the virgin gained

Must meet embraces which she scorns! Unhappy bridegroom! not for thee Shone the clear star of ecstacy:

Veiled were its beams thy nuptial night, Or only shed on thee a cold and sickly light;

Destined, though boasting all her charms, To press a joyless bride, reluctant in thy

arms.

"Ah! to another clime I go,"

The drooping fair was heard to say, "Of ruthless force the yielding prey: There death, the only good below, 'Tis consolation sweet to know,

Will steal me from my woes away,
And mix me with the senseless clay:
No eye to drop the pitying tear
Or mourn me on the passing bier!"

Another clime the mourner sought,
Her breast with hidden anguish fraught;
While, faithful to its prophetess,
The lamp of light less bright, and less
Each dawning day became,

Till the last, feeble, faultering flame
Seemed ready to expire.

Then nature's, powerful nature's claim
The sufferer's heart subdued:

And "bear me back;"-was now her last desire,

"O let my eyes be closed in peace!" Her pallid lips respire.

"Not in a land of strangers rude, But near the friends I love let my existence cease!"

The horsemen met the hounds at seven, From cover soon the prey was driven, And swift as fiery bolts from heaven,

The pack pursued their enemy.

The chase is up! on, on ye brave,
Who never care your necks to save,
And scorn a dangerous leap to wave,

Now spur your coursers manfully.

The straining pack have neared their foe;
Hark to the halloo ! tally ho!
Ne'er pause! o'er gates and hedges go,
The brush rewards your victory.

"Tis night-the hunt dine at the Sun,
The pipes are filled; the healths begun,
Each counts his feats and trophies won,
And all is mirth and jollity.

Let lordlings exult in their titles and treasure,

Where courts and where grandeur extend their proud blaze.

And proud city beauties may listen with pleasure,

While poets as venal reecho their praise; No man shall now boast of the city or palace,

Bedecked with their beauties, a gay gilded train;

For now there's a fairer adorns our green valleys

'Tis Mary, sweet Mary, the flower of the Main. JOHN GETTY.

Ballytrisna, Co. Antrim.

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