How musical

The fresh airs, and the ocean's solemn sound

Come to the mountain grot.

"Let us go forth,"

Said then the unknown and mysterious man.

JOHN.

First, on that mossy stone, beneath the arch,

Kneel we, and offer up our orisons

To Him, who bade the sun go forth!

"OH! GOD,

"THOU DIDST CREATE THIS LIVING WORLD! THY

"VOICE,

"WHEN DARKNESS SAT UPON THE LONELY DEEP,

"SPOKE BE THERE LIGHT,' AND THERE WAS

"LIGHT! THY HAND

"SPREAD OUT THE HEAV'NS, AND FASHION'D FROM

"THE DUST,

MAN, THE HIGH HABITANT OF EARTH, NOW fall'n,

"AND TO RETURN TO DUST AGAIN: BUT THANKS

"BE UNTO THEE, OH! CHRIST, WHO, WHEN THE

"TRUMP

"SHALL SOUND, AND ALL THIS MORTAL POMP IS

"PASS'D,

"SHALT CALL THE DEAD UP, INCORRUPTIBLE !

"AND GLORY BE TO THEE, OH! SPIRIT Pure,

"WHO HAST INFUS'D INTO OUR HEARTS OF FLESH "THE LOVE Of God, thro' fAITH IN JESUS CHRIST! "OH! IN THE HOUR OF DEATH, AND IN THE DAY “OF JUDGMENT-LORD, TO US BE MERCIFUL!"

So pray'd they, suppliant, when morning shone

Upon the seas; so they together pray'd,

Giving God thanks that one more day of light
Was granted to the feeble and the old,

Ere long to rest in peace. Upon their heads,

As slow they rose, a halo seem'd to rest,

Touching the forehead of the aged man:

The features of the younger, as he stood,
Were mild, but awful-thoughtful, yet not sad;
Whilst, from the cavern'd rock, into the sun
The lonely and the last Apostle came.

As both together stood and gaz'd awhile Upon the deep blue sea, the younger said—

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Listen, old man: I was at Antioch,

"When mild Evodias* fill'd St. Peter's chair; "And fair that place, as well beseems the spot "Where first the CHRISTIAN NAME† was heard:

* Evodias succeeded St. Peter as Bishop of Antioch; Ignatius, disciple of St. John, succeeded Evodias.-Eusebius.

The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

"The Vale

"Of Tempe, sung thro' Greece, is not so fair,

"As that green valley, where Orontes winds, "Beneath the grove of Daphne, to the sea; "Scarce Eden fairer, where the first-form'd Man "Stood up majestic, in the world's new day.

"I heard Evodias, and from youth I lov'd "To wander mid the scenes of old renown, "Hallow'd by prophets, and by holy men,

"Who long from earth had pass'd. How beautiful

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Upon those hills and mountains, were the feet

"Of them, who brought glad tidings of the light,

"Now risen on the darken'd world!

"I sat

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Upon a stone of fall'n Jerusalem,

"Sat down and wept, when I remember'd thee,

"O Sion,' and thy Temple, and thy sons "Scatter'd in the wide world-scatter'd or dead.

"Like him, the mighty Prophet,* who, of yore, "Watch'd the dark gath'ring of the clouds and

"rain,

"I stood upon Mount Carmel, and beheld "The great sea westward.' Hark! Euroclydon t "Is up-the tempest rushes from the east;

"Fire and the whirlwind follow; but, oh! God

"Thou art not in the whirlwind nor the fire.

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And, after, came a 'still small voice,' which said,

"Go, visit John, sad, and in solitude.'

"We sail'd from Joppa, in a Tyrian ship,

"To Rhodes: a skiff was waiting near the shore,

*“And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel.” 1 Kings xviii. 42.

The wind which blew when St. Paul was shipwrecked, now called Levanter, from its violence.