days together." The scene was imposing, and calculated to strengthen the feelings which the circumstances had called forth. The sun was just setting, it had tinged the western sky with varied and glowing hues, the sombre tints of evening were spreading themselves along the north, while in the falling breeze was heard, by turns, the bleating sheep returning to their folds, the sound of the shepherd's dog, in responsive note to his master's shrill whistle, and the faint echo of the sheep-bell, now wafted by the swelling gale, and now with soft cadence dying on the listening ear.

Those beautiful lines of Milton recurred

to my mind

"Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad,

for beast and birds;

They to their grassy couch, these to their nests were slunk."

I lingered on the spot, indeed I was reluctant to leave it, and felt constrained to say it is good to have been here. These lines came to my recollection,

I have since learnt that, that humble, but truly pious Christian died after a few days of severe suffering, from inflammation on the lungs. She "rests from her labours," "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, -saith the Spirit."

Her remains are buried in the churchyard of her native village;* distinguished only (if I mistake not) by the sod being bound with osiers, forming a neat lattice work for the wild clematis to twine its branches on, and the monthly blowing rose, that sweet emblem of the perpetual fruit

Ropley near Alresford, Hants.

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bearing-tree planted on either side of the chrystal stream in the city of God; there the grave will not encompass the dead, nor the osier-bound sod cover her slain.

E. A. M.

A FUNERAL SCENE,

OR, THE

BURIAL OF THE VILLAGE SCHOOL MASTER.

The body was now borne to the Churchyard, and as usual, placed at the side of the grave; the sun, which had for some time been obscured, broke forth with that splendour and clear shining, which we often witness in its nearly setting rays, the grave was on the south side of the Church,