A sympathy with love! for love is life!

And life glows brightest under beauty's cloud! So shines the sun when radiant skies announce . The day is wooing some fair ev'ning star! The daughters of the murderer were fair :Their cheeks were mirrors of the rose's dye, Their breathing lips the shrines of its perfume! Their speaking eyes were eloquent of bliss! Their flowing hair seem'd e'en to woo the heart! On these fair wand'rers, tho' as frail as fair, (Poor with'ring flowrets growing on a tomb, To fade and fall anon,) on these, alas !

God's lov'd ones look'd!-they look'd; and turned to stone!

0. Stone to th'impressions of their nature's law! Stone to the reas'nings e'en of nature's God! Oh !.

syren beauty! witching is thy smile!
Oh! moonstruck gazer! fateful is thy doom!
No longer now doth undissembling look
Of artless innocence denote the soul.

Of budded love fast rip'ning into flow'r !

The first stern man who hew'd his brother down
With hideous club, and left him on the plain
A corpse all bloody, was endoom'd to be
The vagrant father of a vagrant race:

And, 'twixt the children of the murd❜rous sire

And those whose birth had not been stain'd

with blood

20. A wall of very fire inscribed thus,

Was builded by the Architect of worlds:

"Ye sons of God! mix not with sons of men! Ye, sacred unto me! be not defil'd!"

Such was the writing! such the high command!
But in the soul of man deep-laid, retir'd

Yet never, never lonely, there doth dwell

17. "The vagrant father, &c." The sentence pronounced upon the first murderer concluded thus:-"A fugitive and a vaga. bond shalt thou be in the earth."-Gen. iv. 11.

26. Yet never, never lonely, &c.—I deny the existence of solitude-there is not such a state in creation. Adam found company ere Eve was formed, and in his fair partner he discovered not association in se, but only association in formâ novâ, i. e., in the shape of tangibility. To admit solitude, is to exclude deity.

A sympathy with love! for love is life!

And life glows brightest under beauty's cloud! So shines the sun when radiant skies announce 30. The day is wooing some fair evʼning star!

The daughters of the murderer were fair :-
Their cheeks were mirrors of the rose's dye,
Their breathing lips the shrines of its perfume!
Their speaking eyes were eloquent of bliss!
Their flowing hair seem'd e'en to woo the heart!
On these fair wand'rers, tho' as frail as fair,
(Poor with'ring flowrets growing on a tomb,
To fade and fall anon,) on these, alas!

God's lov'd ones look'd!-they look'd, and

turned to stone!

40. Stone to th'impressions of their nature's law!
Stone to the reas'nings e'en of nature's God!
Oh! syren beauty! witching is thy smile!
Oh! moonstruck gazer! fateful is thy doom!
No longer now doth undissembling look

Of artless innocence denote the soul

Of budded love fast rip'ning into flow'r!

Farewell to Hymen's altar, and the torch!
Farewell to conjugal and matron grace!

To virtue's self a long, too long adieu !
50. Go mark the temple at the morning break-
Where is the worshipper? Then on proceed
Into the mart of merchants, and enquire

If there's an upright man? The ledger torn
And blotted cries out, "No!" Ask next for
law-

Your answer read in yonder injur'd throng!
Go seek for charity, (the world's bright soul
Without which all is dead,) she is not known!
Earth rings with falsehoods! and hell hears the
sound

With exultation of a fiendish joy!

60. Vice has its victims, and its vot❜ries too!
And, when a knot of lewd unbridled men
Find a broad amphodon whereon to stand,
It ne'er is long e'er some gaunt leader tall,
With more of wealth, with less mayhap of worth,
Spurs on his idle regiment to destroy!

coat!

Then woe to property's unshelter'd store!-
The man of money now needs copper
Odin deform'd in body and in soul,

Wedded to evil, and to rapin prone,

70. Gigantic, cruel, truculent, and proud,

70. Gigantic, &c.—"There were giants on the earth in those days" we are told in Holy Scripture (Gen. vi. 4.) Men have tried to evade the literality of the assertion chiefly in three ways: PhiloJudæus and some others have presumed that the word, "giants," is wholly allegorical, and designed by the sacred writer to convey to us, not the idea of persons of immense corporal stature, but to make prominent the great doctrine of God's universal empire, not only as exercised amongst things terrestrial, but also in realms and amid objects celestial. Others assert that the expression has reference to strength of body or power of mind, unassociated with procerity of animal stature. St. Augustine was amongst this class of theological interpreters. The third class of commentators are those who say, that by giants angels are signified. This supposition has, however, been shewn to have had its origin in heathen mythology; and verses by Orpheus have been quoted in corroboration. Why should any man labour to blot out, as it were, the truth which has been written by God's own finger? Let us accede reverently to the statement, "There were giants (men of extraordinary stature) on the earth in past days,” since, if we cut out the assertion as it stands in Genesis, it will again rise up against us in Numbers, chapter the 13th, verses the 32nd & 33rd, where we are told, "The land through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof,