The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-23 00:00:00

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"THE FOOL, HATH SAID IN HIS HEART
THERE IS, NO GOD."

His conscience brandshim with the giant lie,
And every life-pulsefalsifies his creed;
To de4th he stalks in eullen agony,
Without a solace in, his awful need.
His brow may wear a forged content, but care
With fires of tortui revel in his breast,
And vainly struggling with the dull despair
Ignobly falls, unpitled and stablest.
The amid maismile,and fortune's wealth and power
Blume his name, and gild the wasted time,
But justice treils upon each weary hour,
And drags him trembling to the grave of crime.
The lyres of nature I minister in vain
To soothe an anguish festered with disgrace,
Tho' angel voices with harmonious strain,
it sweetly sing the minstrelsy of peace.
The loving tendrils of affection twine
T., fondly, brightly round the oak tree, dead,
Enaearment fades upon its fallen shrine.
Where once the joys of purity were shed.
With unpious levity he acorns his God,
Tho mocking fiends exult to shriek his doom;
Will false annihifation then afford,
The hope of endless quiet in the tomb!
God strikes at last, the atheist is dead,
The spirit lost has rent its frail control,
And darkly shrouded in a pall of dread,
Sinks crushed etermillv—a ruined soul.
Ara roll on, yet still the funeral bell,
With solemn cadence tolls the dirge of care,
And 'midst the pauses of that fearful knell,
Are heard the sobbing' of his black desotir.
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Court anb Vigij Life.

PRINCE ALPRED.—It is said that the Raooon, 22,
400 horse power, is to be immeiiately commissioned
for sea, to convey His Royal Highness Prince Alfred,
who is to be borne on her books as one of her officers,
on a lengthened cruise, believed to be to the colonies of
Australia. The Prince of Leiningen is expected to take
the command of the Racoon.

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Her Msjesty, with the Royal Household, left
Windsor for Osborne on Saturday, and will remain
there till after the Christmas holidays, when she will
return to the Castle, and remain till after the marriage
of the Prince of Wales and also the expected acconche-
went of the Princess Alice. '
CONSECRATION Or THE ROYAL MAUSOLEUM AT
Faoomotts.—The new royal mausoleum was conse-
crated on Wednesday by the Bishop of Oxford. The
Queen with her family and household were present,
lied a large number of ladies and gentlemen were in
attendance. The following hymn from "In Menuorium"
was sung during the service, to the tune of the Old
Hundredth
0 fond and loving spirit, thou
Far, far away from me art now,
I miss the hand of friendship true,
The heart that all my feelings knew.
Tint while my grief thus fills my heart.
Thou in God's bosom lying art,
Freed from the body'a yoke at last,
The gentle soul to life hath passed.
No spirit ! not one moment e'en
Would I recall thee to this scene.
Thou wert full worthy of my love,
And God bath quicken'd thee above.

God will in turn raise we, and then
I shall rejoin thee once again,
Into thy loving arms I'll fly,
Immortal thou, immortal I.

Immediately after the ceremony, Her Majesty returned
to Windsor. The mausoleum has a central dome, an
octagon, 61 feet in height and 30 feet in diameter. The
ground plan of the building is formed of four recesses
with connecting circular corridors, the space between
the opposite recesses measuring also 64 feet There is
an entrance porch projecting from the east side,
approached by a flight of steps. Although the building
is not yet completed, the central portion, in which the
Royal sarcophagus is to be placed, is entirely closed.