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Be it like summer-may they find
Bliss, beauty, hope, where'er they roam;
Be it like winter, when confined-

Peace, comfort, happiness, at home:-
Like day and night, sweet interchange
Of care, enjoyment, action, rest;
Absence nor coldnes e'er estrange
Hearts by unfailing love possest:
Like earth's horizon-be their scene
Of life a rich and various ground;
And, whether lowering or serene,

Heaven all above it and around!
When land and ocean, day and night,
When years and nature cease to be,
May their inheritance be light,
Their union one eternity!

THE LIGHT-HOUSE.

BY THE REV. GEORGE WOODLEY.

RISING from the dark wild sea, (Awful in immensity!)

Based upon a craggy rock,

That long has braved th' infuriate shock
Of angry billows, wildly gushing,
And in mighty onset rushing,
As combined to overwhelm

Rock and tower in Ocean's realm--
See the lonely Pharos keep
Sentry o'er the dangerous deep;
Where, unmark'd by careless eye,
Perils heaped on perils lie,
And each heavy rolling wave
Breaks above a sailor's grave!

Now, while in her ebon car,
Night displays her banner far,
And no orb of ray serene
Looks upon the cheerless scene,
But above-below-around-
All is wrapt in gloom profound;

While the chill and boisterous breeze
Lashes the repining seas,
And the curlew's shriek of fear
Startles painfully the ear:
Streaming from yon lantern high-
Gleaming in the lurid sky-

Bright, through vapour, mist, and cloud,
That vainly strive its beam to shroud,
Glows the monitory blaze
Over wild and trackless ways,
And, through mazes drear and dark,
Guides the distant gliding bark,
Till, beyond the horizon's verge,
The all-directing sun emerge.
Silent-solemn-stately-slow-
(Like the march of pageant wo)
Round and round incessant turning-
Still with kindly lustre burning-
The faithful lights, alternate, show
The kindling gleam-the ardent glow--
The pallid, soft-receding ray,
That into darkness melts away:
One moment-all is lost in night;
The next-and all is dazzling bright!*

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THE human mind--that lofty thing!
The palace and the throne
Where awful reason sits as king,

And breathes his judgment tone-
O who, with fragile step, shall trace
The borders of that haunted place,
Nor, in his weakness, own

That mystery and marvel bind
That lofty thing, the human mind!
Seek not her thousand thoughts to tell;
Their essence who may know?
Ask not her fancies where they dwell,
Her visions how they glow.

All soft and beautiful they come;
They dream of rest, and call it home:
Ah, mark not where they go!
Enough that, while their light they pour,
We love the life we loathed before.

The human heart-that restless thing!
The tempter, and the tried;
The haughty, yet the suffering;

The child of pain and pride;
The buoyant, and the desolate;
The home of love, the lair of hate;
Self-stung, self-deified!-

Yet do we bless thee as thou art,
Thou restless thing-the human heart!

And wherefore bless thee?-O there lies
A spell and pow'r in thee,
And in the torment of thy sighs

Disguised hope we sec.

Yet, though the golden fruit be gone,
Which once in its own lustre shone

On Passion's fragrant tree,
Its shade is still divinely sweet,
And fascinates the lingering feet.

The human soul-that holy thing!
The silently sublime;

The angel sleeping on the wing,
Worn with the scoffs of time:
The beautiful, the veil'd, the bound;
A prince enslaved; a victim crown'd;
The stricken in its prime !-
In tears-in tears to earth it stole-
That holy thing-the human soul!
Lo shrined in her sacredness,
And breathing sainted air,

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She calls on purity to bless

The presence-hall of prayer:
The dream is curtain'd in the shroud;
The rest is pillow'd on the cloud;

Her hope, her joy, are there;
And while she treads the mortal sod,
Her glorious eye is fix'd on God.
And this is Man!-Oh! ask of him—
The gifted, and forgiven-

When o'er the landscape, drear and dim,
The rack of storms is driven,
If pride or passion, in their power,
Can chain the tide, or charm the hour,
Or stand in place of heaven;
He bends the brow, he bows the knee-
"Creator-Father-none but thee!"

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He hath spanned the waves with his glorious bow,

And dyed with its colours the ships below.

He hath look'd on the clouds, and they've floated away:

He hath gilded the rocks, and gemm'd them with spray:

He hath breathed on the waters, and bid them be still:

He hath hush'd the broad waves with the word of His will.

He hath open'd the heavens, He hath sent forth his showers,

To gladden the field and the spring-starting flowers:

And now He hath gather'd the tears of the sky,

And spread them abroad, like smiles from on high. H. T** Y.

REBECCA PARTING WITH JACOB.

BY MISS EMILY TAYLOR.

My youngest born, my pride of heart, thou must, thou must away;

Thy brother's wrathful hand is raised, and here thou canst not stay.

O, I have deeply sinn'd for thee! the chastisement be mine,

And I will bear it all, my son!—the blessing shall be thine.

What matter though my childless years in grief and pain pass on?

Thou wilt be safe from danger's hour, my own, my darling son!

And, like the fountain sending forth a sweet and murmuring sound,

Thy pleasant voice will come to me, from some far distant ground.

Go, bear thy mother's blessing back to those from whom she came;

My kinsmen's hearts will leap with joy to hear

Rebecca's name.

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Say to them, Haran's shaded well, and flocks that near it stray,

Come to me in my midnight dreams as fresh as yesterday.

Speed on-and when thy nimble feet have brought thee to the place,

And when thou stand'st, an exiled one, before my brother's face,

Tell him thou bear'st thy mother's soul, and therefore wilt not twine

Around the savage olive-tree a strong and noble vine.

Ask if, of all my kinsman's house, no maiden bright there be,

Of lofty soul, with heart to seek thy father's God with thee,

And if there be, O! say to her, "Rebecca left her all;

The Father of the faithful spake, and she obey'd the call."

The angel of the covenant protect thee, precious child!

Defend thee from the cover'd snare, direct thee in the wild!

O! I shall weep in darkness oft, to think thy houseless head

Must pillow on the stony ground or seek the

foxes' bed.

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INDEX TO VOLUME II.

A.

Accountableness of Man for his Belief, Ward-
law on, 1.

Advancement of Society in Knowledge and
Religion, Douglas on the, 93.

Adulation and Calumny, on, 74.

Africa, South, Researches in, 43. 155.
African Bushmen, 75.

Album, the Poetical, 299.

Antiquity, Religious Symbols of, 480.
Arran, Landsborough's, 175.

Avenger, the, stayed, 282.

B.

Babylon Destroyed, 197.

Balaam, on the Prophecy of, 208.

Barrow, Isaac, Discourses in Vindication of the

Christian Faith, 1.

Christians are Stewards, 88.
Churchyard scene, a, 300.
Clapperton, Captain, 199.

Commit thy way unto the Lord, 368.
Connexion of Sacred and Profane History, 8.
Conversion of St. Paul, 71.

Controversy between Roman Catholics and
Protestants, 309.

Corinthians, Lothian's Expository Lectures on
the Epistles to the, 126.

Course of Time, Pollock's, alleged defect in, 52.
Criminality, Balance of, Taylor on, 1.
Critical remarks on 1 Cor. xv., 20.
Cui-bono Men, on, 221.

Cunninghame on the second coming of Mes-
siah, 321. 560.

D.

Davies' Estimate of the Human Mind, 93.

Examination of one of his Ser- Davidica, by Thomson, 280.
mons, 89.

Bertholdt's Introduction, 288.

Bible and Lord Byron, 486.

De Courcy, original letter of, 211.
Departed souls, mutual recognition of, 546.
Devotional Verses, 227.

Bible, Townley's Introduction to the literary | Dewar's Elements of Moral Philosophy, 93.

history of the, 93.

Hebrew, 367.

Dispensation, present, on the spirituality of
the, 482.

Society, Report of the British and Fo- Druids, the Celtic, 31.
reign, 394.

Biblical Anecdote, 216.

Bickersteth on Justification by Faith, 190.

Blunt, on the veracity of the Gospels and Acts,

327.

Bohemia, Protestantism advancing in, 62.
Bonaparte, Last Days of, 365.

Britons, ancient, on the origin, learning, reli-
gion, and customs of, 490.

Burton, on the Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene
Fathers to the divinity of Christ, 80.

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the, 119.

E.

Eastern and Western Apostacies, on the delu-
sion of expecting the fall of, in the present
century, 159.

Egypt, the last Plague of, 560.
Elijah, in the Cave of Horeb, 321.
Ethics, Christian, 105.
Evangelists and Josephus, 42.
Evening Star, to the, 219. 478.
Evidences of Christianity, Wilson's, 239.
arising from pro-
phecy, 529.

Ezra, autograph of, 217.

F.

Farewell to Time, 280.
Felons, on the last hours of, 225.
Fidelity to the dying, 190.
For these I weep, 341.

Fortitude of Heathens, and Magnanimity of
Christians, compared, 180.

French Protestants and Jesuits, 62.
Friends of my youth-Stanzas, 60.

G.

Germany, appendix to "the State of Religion
in," (Rose's) 92.

Gipsies in England, 40.

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Jews, on the present state of the, 415.

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Johnson, Dr., on the Religious Character of, Prideaux, Dr. 8.

169.

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Preaching the Gospel, thoughts on, 70.

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Richmond, Legh, Memoirs of, 260.

Roman Catholic clergy in France, number of,

62.

faith, nullity of the, 469.

Rose's appendix, 92.

Russel's Connexion of Sacred and Profane His-
tory,
Russia, 103.

8.

Ryland's Pastoral Memorials, of, 215.

S.

Sacred Writers, accuracy of the, 61.

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Self-examination, on, 60.

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Vision of the Heavenly World, Leslie's, 129.

Self-government, a concise system of, by Ed- Voices, the two, 559.

monson, 94.

Self-knowledge, on, 319.

Self-examination, 337.

Shuckford, Dr. 9.

W.

Walsh's Travels, 230. 254.
Wardlaw's Four Sermons, 1.

Sick, practical suggestions for relieving the Watch, by Dr. J. M. Good, 279.

sufferings of, 220.

Simplicity, on, 233.

Smith, (Dr. J. P.) Discourses on the Sacrifice
and Priesthood of Jesus Christ, 115.
Soame's Hist. of the Reformation, 203.
Sobermindedness, on, 509.
Socinianism, danger of, 5.

Societies, receipts of, religious and benevolent,
234.

South Africa, Researches in, 43, 155.
Spirit, on the Fruits of the, 210.

St. Bartholomew's day, Massacre on, 200.

Water of Life, the, 325.
Whence comes truth, 363.
Where is now thy God, 31.
Whom have I in heaven but thee, 224.
Wilson's Evidences, 239.
Wolff's Journal, 391.

Y.

Young, Letters to the, 372. 428. 511.

Z.

Zuinglius, the Swiss Reformer, 547.

END OF VOL. II.

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