But hark! while thus I musing stand,
Moves on the gale an airy note,
And breathing from a viewless band
Soft silv'ry tones around me float!

They cease-but still a voice I hear,
A whisper'd voice of hope and joy,
Thy hour of rest approaches near,

Prepare thee, mortal!-thou must die!

Yet start not!-on thy closing eyes
Another day shall still unfold,
A sun of milder radiance rise,
A happier age of joys untold.

"Shall the poor worm that shocks thy sight,
The humblest form in nature's train,
Thus rise in new-born lustre bright,
And yet the emblem teach in vain ?

"Ah! where were once her golden eyes,
Her glittering wings of purple pride?
Conceal'd beneath a rude disguise,
A shapeless mass to earth allied.

"Like thee the hapless reptile lived, Like thee he toiled, like thee he spun, Like thine his closing hour arrived,

His labor ceased, his web was done.

And shalt thou, number'd with the dead,
No happier state of being know?
And shall no future morrow shed
O'er thee a beam of brighter glow?

"Is this the bound of power Divine,
To animate an insect frame?

Or shall not He who moulded thine
Wake at his will, the vital flame?

Enough to know to thee is given;

Go, and the joyful truth relate;

Frail child of earth! high heir of heaven!"

DREAM

OF A

GENTLEMAN IN LIMERICK.

He dreamed that he was standing in a large saloon or hall, in the centre of which he saw a tripod with burning incense, the flame and smoke ascending. A table stood before it, on which lay a small highly polished glass, like the chrystal of a watch. On one side of this table he perceived a figure standing with the greatest majesty and benignity in

his countenance, and of extreme personal beauty and sweetness, in so much that his eye could not refrain from gazing on its attractions, and he saw that the chrystal lying on the table received and reflected this image. After a time he heard a voice crying to him, "call up twenty to judgment;" he scarcely understood the requisition, but felt himself constrained to an involuntary obedience, and he called over twenty names, the individuals instantly appearing at the lower end of the room.

One by one they approached the table to be judged; and as they came near at the