5. There is no Death! what seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Whose portals we call Death. 6. She is not dead-the child of our affectiongone unto that school But Where she no longer needs our poor protection, 7. In that great Cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, 8. Day after day we think what she is doing Year after year her tender steps pursuing, S. Thus do we walk with her, and keep unbroken Thinking that our remembrance, tho' unspoken, 10. Not as a child shall we again behold her; In our embraces we again infold her, 11. But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, And beautiful with all the soul's expansion 12. And though at times, impetuous with emotion And anguish long suppressed, The swelling heart heaves moaning like the ocean 13. We will be patient! and assuage the feeling By silence sanctifying, not concealing, XVII.-DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA. BANCROFT. From the "History of the United States." 1. The genial climate and transparent atmosphere delighted those who had come from the denser atmosphere of England. Every object in nature was new and wonderful. The loud and frequent thunder-storms were phenomena that had been rarely witnessed in the colder summers of the north; the forests, majestic in their growth, and free from underwood, deserved admiration for their unrivalled magnificence. The purling streams and the frequent rivers flowing between alluvial banks, quickened the everpregnant soil into an unwearied fertility. 2. The strongest and the most delicate flowers grew familiarly in the fields; the woods were replenished with sweet-barks and odors; the gardens matured the fruits of Europe, of which the growth was invigorated and the flavor improved by the activity of the virgin mould. Especially the birds, with their gay plumage and varied melodies, inspired delight; every traveller expressed his pleasure in listening to the mockingbird, which carolled a thousand several tunes, in imitating and excelling the notes of all its rivals. 3. The humming-bird, so brilliant in its plumage, and so delicate in its form, quick in motion, yet not fearing the presence of man, haunting about the flowers like the bee, gathering honey, rebounding from the blossoms into which it dips its bill, and as soon returning "to renew its many addresses to its delightful objects," was ever admired as the smallest and the most beautiful of the feathered race. 4. The rattlesnake, with the terrors of its alarms and the power of its venom; the opossum, soon to become as celebrated for the care of its offspring as the fabled pelican; the noisy frog, booming from the shallows like the English bittern; the flying squirrel; the myriads of pigeons, darkening the air with the immensity of their flocks, and, as men believed, breaking with their weight the boughs of trees on which they alighted,--were all honored with frequent communication, and became the subjects of the strangest tales. 5. The concurrent relation of all the Indians justified the belief that, within ten days' journey toward the setting of the sun, there was a country where gold might be washed from the sand, and where the natives themselves had learned the use of the crucible; but definite and accurate as were the accounts, inquiry was always baffled; and the regions of gold remained for two centuries an undiscovered land. XVIII-THE DISCOVERY OF THE HUDSON RIVER. IRVING. The following humorous account of this event is extracted from Washington Irving's amusing "History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker." The reader must be careful not to confound the historical with the humorous parts of the narrative. 1. In the ever memorable year of our Lord, 1609, on a Saturday morning, the five-and-twentieth day of March, old style,* did that "worthy and irreproachable discoverer (as he has justly been called), Master Henry Hudson," set sail from Holland in a stout vessel called the Half Moon, being employed by the Dutch East India Company, to seek a northwest passage to China. 2. Henry (or, as the Dutch historians call him, Hendrick) Hudson, was a sea-faring man of renown, who * By old style is meant the mode of reckoning dates previous to tho correction of the calendar in England, in 1752. The derangement then amounted to eleven days; and, by Act of Parliament, the 3d of September of that year became the 14th. had learned to smoke tobacco under Sir Walter Raleigh, and is said to have been the first to introduce it into Holland, which gained him much popularity in that country, and caused him to find great favor in the eyes of their high mightinesses, the lords states-general, and also of the honorable West India Company. He was a short, square, brawny old gentleman, with a double chin, a mastiff mouth, and a broad copper nose, which was supposed in those days to have acquired its fiery hue from the constant neighborhood of his tobacco-pipe. 3. He wore a true Andrea Ferrara, tucked in a leathern belt, and a commodore's cocked hat on one side of his head. Such was Hendrick Hudson, of whom we have heard so much, and know as little and I have been thus particular in his description for the benefit of modern painters and statuaries, that they may represent him as he was; and not, according to their common custom with modern heroes, make him look like Cæsar, or Marcus Aurelius, or the Apollo of Belvidere. 4. From all that I can learn, few incidents worthy of remark happened in the voyage; and it mortifies m exceedingly that I have to admit so noted an expedition into my work, without making any more of it. Suffice it to say, the voyage was prosperous and tranquil-the crew, being a patient people, much given to slumber and vacuity, and but little troubled with the |