Imatges de pàgina
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"My actions are seal'd up, my term

Of trial o'er,

No farther space for penitence

Is given me more.

"Oh! that the knell which now proclaims

A brother dead,

Might rouse reflection, ere your days
Like mine are fled!

"Bethink of the mortal pangs

ye

Of that dread hour,

When ye will shrink, yet cannot fly
From death's fell power.

"Ye votaries of the world, who sport

On the grave's brink,

From your besotted revelries

Awake! and think!

"Time flies!-your measur'd moments all

Sweep swiftly by,

A dread eternity draws on,

And ye must die !"

Such are the solemn thoughts thou wak'st,

Mournful death-bell,

As sullenly on the still air

Floats thy sad knell.

NEWPORT, R. I.

S. S. C.

ALPINE MASTIFFS, OR THE DOGS

OF SAINT BERNARD.

Illustrative of the Providence of God.

WHERE shall we look, and not see the providence of God displayed?

Of the quadrupedal portion of creation, the dog is pre-eminently the sympathising companion and attached friend of man. The sincerity of his fidelity, who has distrusted? His generous devotion to the pleasures and wishes of his master, what ill-usage can repress-what kind treatment overpay? Or who shall say that the arts which adorn social life are unworthily or unwisely employed in asserting the claims to human regard, and even to human gratitude, of a noble creature, to whom, if the faculty of speech has been denied, other modes of acquiring

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