through the earth. Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.-Ibid vi. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

The men whom the prophet in his first chapter describes as walking through the earth, and the chariot, which he mentions in his sixth chapter, as going forth into the north country, are declared to have produced the same effect. The men, in effect, say "we have appeared in the world, and (consequent on our presence) the people enjoy peace ;" and God, in effect, says "those who go, in the chariot, towards the north country have introduced the blessings of peace there (have quieted my spirit in the north country.) Rest, quiet, peace, are the blessings which these angels of God leave behind them. Is not this state of things likely to arise when the prophecy of Daniel is fulfilled? For my part I cannot help thinking that the "Many running to and fro" of Daniel, and the horsemen and chariots of Zechariah, are meant to denote agents busied in the same work. I shall only add that the prophecy in the book of Daniel bears date in the third year of Cyrus, and that the visions above quoted from Zechariah are

dated in the second year of Darius; that consequently both the Prophecy and the Visions took place within fourteen years (or thereabout) of each other; and that Daniel and Zecharia hwere fellow captives in the Babylonish captivity.

V.

THE SOCIETIES.

An international Association begins forming. It becomes important in point of numbers, and assuming to carry the above propounded views and wishes of Philosophy into immediate practical execution, sends forth numerous large bodies of its members in order to the universal propagation of Science, and with purpose, to assemble, incidentally, the elements of a Cosmopolitan Dynasty. The seven Societies betake themselves to their respective spheres of action. Invocation. The Poem here narrows its range, and a descriptive narrative of the labours and route taken by the British division of the Association commences. It pervades Britain, and leaving behind it sufficient means in operation embarks for Africa.

O for a spirit able to discern

The depths of this great theme, and trace its steps Progressive, oscillating, retrograde,

In all the ages after it had made

Its earliest advancement! In these days
No man needs marvel at this principle,

So emanating and so seconded,

Not wanting executors. Generous bursts
Of magnanimity to the high call

Of Bacon were responded, and their sound
Was echoed through the western world. So high

The spirit that assembled and inspired
This meeting ran, that simultaneously
The seven confederacies were begun
To be assembled, and the same year's end
In the new levies' strength, intelligence,
And opulence, and enterprize, and zeal,
And number, were all-powerful elements.
As bounds the eager lion from a toil;
Ascends, and rushes through the opening way
Elated, uttering low joyous roars;

So passed out buoyantly toward their spheres
Ten thousand missionaries! to pervade
The moral wildernesses, and refresh

The arid surface with cool crystal streams;
Plant in the dark and narrow paths their lights
Diffusive, ever-blazing in men's view :
And combat evil, meliorating man!

What route the British entered, and of Mind
Coming to hold an empire paramount,
Help me, Mnemosyne, to celebrate!

Paint freshly views well-nigh effaced, and scenes
Whose burned-in colouring cannot be erased,
Give a description duly eloquent!

First Britain heard their passage in her burghs And cities, then in Parliament, and last Throughout her high-ways; till, well-trained, there rose

D

Instructors of the People who sufficed,
To the accomplishment of Bacon's views.
The Earth was entering Libra: Hampshire sent
Fresh-blowing breezes, when, with crowded sail
The Argo and Amphictyon (5) stood to sea
On their first voyage; carrying the chiefs
And supernumeraries of the corps
Of Britons executing the designed
Ameliorations. From the sun new risen
Long silvery columns pointing to the land
Pierced the flood's shady surface, and illumed
The cliffs about the Needles; Albion's shores
On recollection crowded, one by one;

Oft witnessed standing nobly under storms,
Towering majestic, till returning suns
Discovered, bared by tempest, the deep seats
Of their foundations, and their native hues.
Made radiant: down is dropped the sparkling
brine

From the moist rocks, and streaking their bold fronts

Snow-white, green, amber, jet, in splendour shine.
Eight days the ships ran under easy sail,
And on the ninth made Afric's western shores.

NOTE.

(5) In reference to the restoration of Astræa, Virgil (Ecl. IV.) prophecies,