eight times, with his own hand, in order to render the style of that great man familiar to him.

THE WORM AND THE FLOWER.

BY J. MONTGOMERY.

You're spinning for my lady, Worm,
Silk garments for the fair;
You 're spinning rainbows for a forin
More beautiful than air;

When air is bright with sun-beams,
And morning mists arise

From woody vales, and mountain streams,
To blue autumnal skies.

You're training for my lady, Flower!
You're opening for my love
The glory of her summer bower,
While sky-larks soar above.
Go, twine her locks with rose-buds,
Or breathe upon her breast;
While zephyrs curl the water-floods,
And rock the halcyon's nest.

But Oh! there is another worin
Ere long will visit her,

And revel on her lovely form
In the dark sepulchre:

Yet from that sepulchre shall spring
A flower as sweet as this:

Hard by the nightingale shall sing,
Soft wings its petals kiss.

Frail emblems of frail beauty, ye,
In beauty who would trust?
Since all that charins the eye must be
Consigned to worms and dust.

Yet, like the flower that decks her tomb,
Her soul shall quit the clod,

And shine in amaranthine bloom
Fast by the throne of God!

Icebergs are large bodies of ice filling the valleys between the high mountains in northern latitudes. Among the most remarkable are those of the East Coast of Spitsbergen. The frost sports wonderfully with these bodies, and gives them the most fantastic, and sometimes the most majestic forms.

Masses have been seen assuming the shape of a Gothic Church, with arched windows and doors, and all the rich drapery that an Arabian tale would scarcely dare to describe. Crystal of the richest blue, tables with one or more feet, and often im mense flat-roofed temples, supported by round transparent columns, float by the astonished spectators. These icebergs are the creation of ages, and annually increase by the falling of snows, and of rain, which instantly freezes, and more than repairs the loss occasioned by the heat of the sun.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF CHILDREN

Do not press your children too much during their early years on the subject of religion. Show them, by your example, that it is the object of your own reverence; but suffer their religious principles to form gradually, as their understandings open. Do not make religion appear to them a burden; do not lay them under unnecessary restraints; do not let them see religion clothed in a dress repulsive to their youthful minds. To insure its making a good impression on them, let it be clothed in its native colors of attraction. Study to make them regard it as an object of veneration, but, at the same time, what it truly is, as a source of cheerfulness and joy. Do not let them regard the Sabbath as a day of gloom and restraint. Take them with you to the House of God, and accustom them to regard the institutions of religion with reverence, but do not compel them, during the rest of the day, to remain immured within the walls of your own house. Allow them the reasonable indulgence of air and exercise an indulgence useful to their health, rational in itself, and no way inconsistent with their religious character; while the refusal of that indulgence has just the effect of making them regard the return of the day as a day of penance and mortification, instead of hailing it as a day of joy.

THEY ARE GONE!

(From Moore's Evenings in Greece.)

Ah! where are they who heard, in former hours,
The voice of song in these neglected bowers?
They are gone-they are all gone!

The youth, who told his pain in such sweet tone,
That all who heard him wished his pain their own--
He is gone-he is gone!

And she who, while he sung, sat listening by,
And thought, to strains like these 't were sweet to die
She is gone-she, too, is gone!

"Tis thus, in future hours, some bard will say
Of her who hears, and him who sings this lay-
They are gone-they both are gone!

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There are several animals distinguished by the common name of Ant-eaters, which differ much in form. They are, however, all distinguished by one characteristic; which is, that as they feed wholly on insects, they have no teeth. The tongue is the only instrument with which they seize their food, and it is long, wormlike, and covered with a glutinous moisture. From the tip of the snout to the end of the tail, the great Ant-eater is sometimes eight or nine feet in length. It is covered with very coarse and shaggy hair. Its motions are slow, but it swims well.

This creature is a native of Brazil and Guiana, and it lives wholly on ants, woodlice, and wild bees. These it collects by thrusting its tongue into their holes, and having penetrated every part of the nest, withdraws it into its mouth loaded with prey.-Its legs are so strong, that few animals can extricate themselves from its gripe. It is said to be formidable even to the panthers of America; and some