and against which nothing known in the present system of things, provides us with any security. They might not annihilate the earth', but they would unpeople it'; and we', who tread its surface with such firm and assured footsteps', are at the mercy of devouring elements, which', if let loose upon us by the hand of the Almighty', would spread solitude', and silence', and death, over the dominions of the world'.

Now, it is this littleness, and this insecurity', which make the protection of the Almighty so dear to us, and which bring', with such emphasis', to every pious bosom', the holy lessons of humility and gratitude. The God who sitteth above', and who presides in high authority over all worlds', is mindful of man; and', though at this moment his energy is felt in the remotest provinces of creation', we may feel the same security in his providence', as if we were the objects of his undivided care.

It is not for us to bring our minds up to this mysterious agency'. But', such is the incomprehensible fact, that the same Being', whose eye is abroad over the whole universe', gives vegetation to every blade of grass, and motion to every particle of blood which circulates through the veins of the minutest animal'; that', though his mind takes into its comprehensive grasp', immensity and all its wonders', I am as much known to him', as if I were the single object of his attention`; that he marks all my thoughts; that he gives birth to every feeling and every movement within me'; and that', with an exercise of power which I can neither describe nor comprehend', the same God who sits in the highest heaven', and reigns over the glories of the firmament', is at my right hand,' to give every breath which I draw', and every comfort which I enjoy`.

SECTION XI.

Pleasures of Hope.-CAMPBELL.

With thee', sweet Hope', resides the heavenly light'
That pours remotest rapture on the sight':
Thine is the charm of life's bewildered way',
That calls each slumbering passion into play.
Waked by thy touch', I see the sister band',
On tiptoe watching', start at thy command',
And fly where'er thy mandate bids them stēēr',
To pleasure's path', or glory's bright career,

Primeval Hope! the Aōnian mūses sãy',

When man and nature mourned their first decay';
When every form of death', and every wo',
Shot from malignant stars to earth below';
When murder bared her arm', and rampant wär'
Yoked the red dragons of her iron car';

When peace and mercy', banished from the plain',
Sprung on the viewless winds to heaven again';
All', all forsook the friendless', guilty mind',
But hôpe', the charmer', lingered still behind'.
Thus', while Elijah's burning wheels prepare
From Carmel's heights to sweep the fields of air',
The prophet's mantle', ere his flight began',
Dropped on the world'-a sacred gift to man.

Auspicious Hopè! in thy sweet garden grow' Wreaths for each toil', a charm for every wō': Won by their sweets', in nature's languid hōūr The waywōrn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower'; There', as the wild bee murmurs on the wing', What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring! What viewless forms th' Eōlian organs play', And sweep the furrowed lines of anxious thought away'. Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore Earth's loneliest bounds', and ocean's wildest shōre'. Lo' to the wintry winds the pilot yields' His bark carēĕring ō'er unfathomed fields'; Now on Atlantick waves he rides afar', Where Andes', giant of the western star',

With meteor-standard to the winds unfurled',

Looks', from his throne of clouds', ō'er half the world'.

Now far he swēēps', where scarce a summer smiles' On Behring's rocks', or Greenland's nāked isles', Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow From wastes that slumber in eternal snōw': And waft', across the wave's tumultuous rōar', The wolf's long howl from Onalaska's shōre'.

Pôôr child of danger', nursling of the storm,
Sad are the wões that wreck thy manly form`!
Rocks, waves', and winds', the shattered bark delay';
Thy heart is sad`, thy home is far away`.

But Hope can here her moonlight vigils keep',
And sing.. to charm the spirit of the deep'.
Swift as yon streamer lights the starry pōle',
Her visions warm the watchman's pensive soul.
His native hills, that rise in happier climes',
The grot, that heard his song of other times',
His cottage home', his bark of slender sail',
His glassy lake', and broomwood-blossomed vāle',
Rush on his thought; he sweeps before the wind',
Treads the loved shōre he sighed to leave behind';
Mēēts at each step a friend's familiar face',
And flies at last to Helen's long embrace';
Wipes from her cheek the rapture-speaking tear,
And clasps', with many a sigh', his children dear':
While', long neglected', but at length caressed',
His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest,
Points to the master's eyes' (where'er they roam')
His wistful face', and whines a welcome home'.

Friend of the brave! in peril's darkest hōür',
Intrepid virtue looks to thee for power';
To thee the heart its trembling homage yields',
On stormy floods and carnage-covered fields',
When front to front the bannered hosts combine',
Halt ere they clōse', and form the dreadful line',
When all is still on death's devoted soil',
The march-worn sōldier mingles for the toil':

As rings his glittering tube', he lifts on high'
The dauntless brow', and spirit-speaking eye";
Hâils in his heart the triumph yet to come,
And hears thy stormy musick in the drum.

SECTION XII.

Address to Greece.-BYRON.

He'.. who hath bent him o'er the dead',
Ere the first day of death'.. is fled',
The first dark day of nothingness',
The last'.. of danger and distress',
(Before decay's effacing fingers'

Have swept the lines where beauty lingers',)
And marked the mild', angelick air,
The rapture of repose'.. that's there',
The fixed', yet tender', traits that streak'
The languor of the placid cheek',

And'-but for that sad', shrouded eye'

That fires not, wins not', weeps not'.. now',
And but for that chill', changeless brow',

Where cōld obstruction's apathy'
Appals the gazing mourner's heart',
As if to him.. it could impart

The doom he dreads', yet dwells upon' ;-
Yes', but for these`, and these alone',
Some moments', ay', one treacherous hôûr
He still might doubt the tyrant's power';
So fair, so câlm', so softly sealed',
The first', last look by death revealed':
SUCH is the aspect of this shōre';

'Tis GREECE', but living Greece'... nō mōre!
So coldly sweet', so deadly fâir',

We start,... for sôUL.. is wanting there'.
Hers'.. is the loveliness in death',

That parts not quite with parting breath';
But beauty'.. with that fearful blôôm',
That hue.. which haunts it to the tômb`,
Expression's last receding ray`,

A gilded halo'.. hovering round decay',

The farewell beam of feeling.. past away!

Spark of that flame', perchance'.. of heavenly birth',

Which gleams', but warms no more its cherished earth

Clime of the unforgotten brave`!

Whose land'.. from plain to mountain-cave",
Was freedom's home, or glory's grāve'—
Shrine of the mighty! can it bê',

That this.. is all remains of thêê'?

Approach, thou craven', crouching SLAVE':

Sây, is not this Thermopyla'?

These waters blue'.. that round you lave'—
Oh'! servile offspring of the frēē'-
Pronounce what sea, what shore' . . is this":
The gulf', the rock of Salamis'!

These scènes their story not unknown'-
Arise', and make again your own';
Snatch from the ashes of your sires'
The embers of their former fires';
And he whō', in the strife expires',
Will add to theirs a name of fear'
That tyranny shall quake to hear`,
And leave his sons a hōpe', a fame'
They', too', will rather die'.. than shâme':
For.. freedom's battle'.. once begun',
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son',
Though baffled oft', is ever won`.

Bear witness', Greece', thy living page',
Attest it', many a deathless age':
While kings', in dusty darkness'.. hid',
Have left a nameless pyramid',

Thy heroes', though the general dōōm'
Hath swept the column from their tômb`,
A mightier monument command',
The mountains'. . of their native land'.
There points thy muse to stranger's eye'
The graves of those that cannot die`.

'Twere long to tell, and sad to trace'
Each step from splendour to disgrace';
Enough no foreign foe could quell'
Thy soul', till from itself'.. it fell`:
Yes, self-abasement led the way'
To villain-bonds and despot-sway`.

SECTION XIII.

The Passions.-COLLINS.

When Musick', heavenly maid', was young,
While yet in early Greece she sung',
The Passions oft', to hear her shell',
Thronged around her magick cell'
Exulting, trembling', raging', fainting,
Possessed beyond the muse's painting;
By turns they felt the glowing mind'
Disturbed', delighted', raised', refined';
Till once', 'tis said', when all were fired',
Filled with fury`, rapt`, inspired',
From the supporting myrtles round',

They snatched her instruments of sound';
And', as they oft had heard apart'
Sweet lessons of her forceful art',
Each' (for madness ruled the hour')

Would prove his own expressive power`.
First', Fear, his hand', its skill to try',
Amid the chords bewildered laid',
And back recoiled', he knew not why',
E'en at the sound himself had made'.

Next', Anger rushed'; his eyes on fire,
In lightnings owned his secret stings';
In one rude clash he struck the lyre',
And swept', with hurried hand', the strings`.
With woful measures wan Despair',
Low', sullen sounds his grief beguiled`;
A solemn, strange', and mingled air`;
'Twas sad by fits', by starts 'twas wild'.
But thou, O Hope', with eyes so fair',
What was thy delighted measure`?
Still it whispered promised pleasure',
And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!
Still would her touch the strain prolong';

And', from the rocks', the woods', the vale',
She called on echo still', through all the song';
And', where her sweetest theme she chose',

A soft', responsive voice was heard at every close';
And Hope enchanted smiled', and waved her golden hair'.
And longer had she sung';-but', with a frown',
Revenge impatient rose':

He threw his blood-stained sword in thunder down',
And', with a withering look',

The war-denouncing trumpet took',

And blew a blast so loud and dread',

Were ne'er prophetick sounds so full of wo`:

And ever and anon, he beat'

The doubling drum', with furious heat';

And though', sometimes', each dreary pause between',
Dejected Pity', at his side',

Her soul-subduing voice applied",

Yet still he kept his wild', unaltered mien',

While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head'.

Thy numbers', Jealousy', to naught were fixed`,

Sad proof of thy distressful state':

Of differing themes the veering song was mixed'

And now it courted Love', now', raving', called on Hate'. With eyes upraised', as one inspired',

Pale Melancholy sat retired`;

And from her wild', sequestered seat',
In notes by distance made more sweet',

Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul';

And', dashing soft from rocks around',

Bubbling runnels joined the sound`;

Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole';

Or', o'er some haunted stream', with fond delay',
Round a holy calm diffusing',

Love of peace', and lonely musing',

In hollow murmurs died away`.

But', O'! how altered was its sprightlier tone',

When Cheerfulness', a nymph of healthiest hue',
Her bow across her shoulder flung,

Her buskins gemmed with morning dew',

Blew an inspiring air that dale and thicket rung,
The hunter's call, to faun and dryad known`.