The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-02 00:00:00

MINES.

Real del Monte Unregd.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.---CHATIIAM, DEC. 30.—
This morning, at 7 o'clock, a detachment of the 65th Regi-
ment, consisting of 2 sergeants and 33 rank and file and I_
sergeant and 12 rank and file, of the 11th Regiment, marched
from this garrison to Gravesend, and embarked on board of
one of the Star Company's boats at half-past 9 o'clock for whence they are to proceed on board theenntr
.c.B
port-ship China, as a convict-guard, in charge of
belonging vi t
for Norfolk Island. Six women and five childrohmn
to the men of the 65th embark with the detachment. ent.The
Lieutenant
officers in charge are Captain Johnston
Turner, both of the 15th.
at the Manor of Hooton.
WINDSOR, JAN. I.—PRINCE ALBERT'S HARRIERS.
—His Royal Highness met at te
was attended by ajor. Gen
The Prince was accMompaniederla3l;l;tv neemyEsasrlanoaf Laiinrc.olAnn,
saonnd.
His Royal Highness
hunted on the farms of Mr. Pullen and
Mr. Holderness.

noon IN THE SEVERN.—The river has been
rapidly rising the last day or two, and this morning its
waters have reached the house-steps on the quay, the
passage to and from which is only effected by boats ; in
addition to which, several barges are actually moored on
the quay, and the happy crews (to whom the occasion
presents a nice holiday) have taken care to locate them-
selves and craft pretty near to where her Majesty's
licenses have been granted for retailing beer and tobacco,
while, seated on their cabin tops, they look round on the
waßte of waters, and "blow their cloud" with the most
philosophic and enviable indifference. It is, we believe,
the highest since the extraordinary summer flood of
1839. Worcestershire Chronicle.

'W
PEEWCV "dstP
'WINDSOR, TIVIRSDAY.—This being
the Queen, Prince Albert, the DucheS , 9
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and The
,r_rin'fr/0
Alice, proceeded to the riding-school this .moreieg,t,
be present at the distribution of the,..ryal
the poor of the borough. Her Majesty waSWci) by Viscountess Jocelyn and the two Afaids,of.ll-091t,,
There were also present Lady Peel, Lady Grahaw,
Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Honourable Miss tittelti
Lady Fanny Howard, Lord W. Russell,
the Honourable Mrs. Anson, Colonel _Bowles, 'the,.o;fr
and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, Sir George and
Couper, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, and 'also
clergy and the magistrates of the town.
The royal party having arrived, the distribution
provisions and clothing took place. The provisiool
of the value of 1501., consisted of bread, meat, potatoe9.
pudding, and coals, and were distributed to 486 fatnio
l,
from the two parishes in the borough of Windsor, "
the parishes of St. John and the Holy Trinity.
The clothing was of the value of 1001, consistieg.
blankets, red cloaks, calico, and flannel, end was cliff
tributed to 228 families, selected in a similar manna
from the same parishes.
tdi
Seven hung red and fourteen families thus particips I
in the royal bounty, receiving in value 2501. •,,/,I
On the return of her Majesty and her Royal Cens°4-1
his Royal highness went out to hunt with his harrie,74l
accompanied by the Earl of Lincoln, and attended
Mr. Anson and Major-General Wemyss.
The Right Hon. S.dney Herbert left the Castle to-cll'
Colonel Bouverie has arrived, and has succeed
Major-General Sir Edward Bowater in the dutiei
Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness Pinw
Albert.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert promenaded in 01
pleasure-grounds for some time this afternoon.
The royal dinner party this evening will include -/
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Falni!
froward, Baroness de Speth, Lady Isabella Wene
Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Mr. George Edward
Hon. Mrs. Anson, Colonel Sir George Couper, and tl
Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay.
The band of the 2d Life Guards attend during dine
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend °it
Castle.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attend`
the service in Grosvenor Chapel yesterday morning.
The Duke of Buccleuch has arrived in town, and vls'ri
the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from II!)
Colonial-office fur the Governors of the West Inn
Colonies.

SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE•
TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY.

Not a dozen subscribers assembled at the commeo
merit of the new year, and amongst them so slight re
the disposition to speculate, that we neel riot attetor',
list of the market prices. The only bets laid were 15 tOll
to about 40/., agst Brocardo; 750 to 25 agst Spithes;
40 to 1, to 351, agst Fancy Boy, for the Derby; ar
625 to 25 agst Osprey, and 750 to 25 agst Sister`'
Flambeau, for the Oaks.

FASHIONS FOR JANUARY.
(From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine l;
Fashion.)
The damas fashionable this season is veloutes,
broad velvet stripe contrasting well with this rich,
scription of silk. These dresses require no tricaul
but are made extremely full and very long behind:
other materials flounces of Alen con, or point lace,
worn. Taffetas d'ltalie are fashionable for petites rt
rees, and are made with numerous narrow flounces, r!
cyones, satins a la Reine, taffetas Victoria, Pekines'
vantines, ornbres in dark colours ;—papelines
mayeux are all in favour for dinner or evening
and in richer materials velvets, damns, satins spot
i]:
with velvet, &c. All shades of grey are fashionable,
neglige, particularly pearl grey, iron grey, and in;
The make of dresses varies but little, always.bigh.l3,ot:i

for the morning ; evening corsages are still light 4
pointed. A pretty style of trimming is a plat of
shads of the colour of the dress edging the raver 6.
both body and skirt ; these little plats will also be
on dresses of thin materials for evening wear on 114
crape, or sky blue. or on crape li-se. The sniall ceyf
or cardinal cuffs suit well with the plain, reding°A.
these collars stand erect, a little open round the thn•
embroidered and trimmed with narrow lace, put tbli
little full ; the cuffs are of the same st)le, turned Ai
on the sleeve forming giuntlet, and closing• with swi4'
gold buttons. Wreaths a la Ceres, a la Ninon, a fro
beau, with couronnes Rachel and Pamela, are e
fashionable coiffures ; they are all made with vv,iffro
leaves instead of velvet, being lighter. Pelisses la '
Here, Manteaux, Bayard, and Foultere, are all in
the Andalouse is also pretty, a kind of demi-mantelr
..,i
generally made of black or deep blue velvet richly
mented with gimp ; the form is elegant, and caleulv
to show the dress.
A new form of bonnet, less open at the sides than 0
Pamela, is talked of. Velvet bonnets of the 10 t!
colour are very fashionable, ornamer,ted with featlieriA;
the same colour, or with several small ones, somen
mixed with the colour of the lining, pink or cerise.
is again being wed on the edge of bonnets ; on abr
bonnets the lace is point d'Angleterre ; on black, ro;
or ruby velvet it is fine black lace ; these ale
__A°r/
mented with an aigrette on ostrich feather on a I opr
black lace instead of ribbon.

THE COLONIES, THE COLONL
OFFICE, AND COLONISATION. elf
In 1841, before the assembling of the present
liament, after the general election of that year, 11.1
mour ran through the country that a national or ;
tended system of emigration and colonisation,sl
one, if not the principal, forthcoming measure 01,,i
Robert Peel's Government. No measure could hat
found more favour in the public mind, for not op'
the metropolitan but the provincial press warmly s;
ported the proposition—numerous pamphlets 1/6i
published on the subject—and various public 01
t
ings in England, Scotland, and Ireland were belelo
which resolutions in favour of it were passed. a
hopes of all the friends of colonisation were greAto
raised—it was universally thought that the 1:10
Colonial Secretary, Lord Stanley, was about t 0,04
tinguish himself in this department of public Pt)
nistration, and to outshine all his predecessors ie,ie
comprehensiveness of his plans, and the vigour l'ef,
which he would carry them out ; but on the
first or second day of the meeting of Parliatnent4
these expectations were dispelled, for Sir Robert
declared that Government contemplated no 50
measure. Whether the Conservative Ministry rt'd
not embrace the mighty advantages of a
arranged system of locating our colonial waste 114,41
with the unemployed able-bodied labourinz pops
tion of this country who were willing to emigrate)
all the various bearings of such a system, as reslif
not only the emigrants themselves but the colon,
and the extension of trade and shipping in the met"
country ?—whether the outbreak in the mantive
turing districts in 1842 might not have been fect
vented, and the agitators diverted from their 0140:
had such a scheme been brought forward by Gol4o,
ment ?—whether all the recent bankruptcy ot
ruinous depreciation of property in our Atr,trr,j,
colonies, and the terrible disasters in New 'Lealrep:
' might not all have been avoided, had Governeli
favoured, instead of discouraged colonisation ?-141
they aided instead of petulantly opposed those:oor
urged such a plan, it is bootless now to inquire. Jj
precious years have been wasted, ansi nothing l 4
has has been done for the colonies generally. 00
contrary, much evil has resulted. Instead of eart)fi
immortal renown—as it was in his power to vre
done—Lord Stanley slept on his post, and he hat'
tired in disgrace. The question now is, is his eel
oessor to be an equally inefficient Colonial secreto",
Is he also to slumber over his duties
the Colonial-office to remain as it is
is it to be reorganised, and adapted sd
the great amount and variety of business 011-
comes before it ? Is Mr. Stephen to be continue:4i'
Under-Secretary, and, though a sub., yet the
neat, and in reality, the chief of the departmenY
fact, the autocrat of the British Colonies ? Is ott
wholly useless and expensive board, the Colonial, Droo
and Emigration Commission, to be kept up? Are 1,/
30,000 to 50,000 of the best men of our counts)
the very strength and marrow of the population
be allowed to emigrate annually to the United Sttird
and enrich a rival power, and no attraction offeii,
them to go to our own colonies instead ? Weft'
to be done for New Zealand ? Are its affairs to
to
main unsettled ? Are the bickerings betwixt of
Colonial-office and the New Zealand Company to
tyl
continued? Are the great natural advantages or ce
colony not to be turned to account, and no intieto
meats offered for the small class of farmers ier
country, who are fast sinking into the class 01 40
bourers, to go and settle there on grants of 2Otopf
and 50 acres, suitable to their means of cultivatt
In short, is the administration of Mr. Gladstol'S
Colonial Secretary, to be for good or evil ? .)-hp,ol
'
questions all occur at this time to the minds of 00
to whom the subject embraced in the title of is
article, namely, the Colonies, the Colonial-°5B
and Colonisation, are familiar. We are aware 'be
the repeal or modification of the corn-laws, forte
changes in the tariff, and railway legislatiolltA
likely to engross the greater part of the time 04'414
tention of Ministers and Members of PaeliatYyl
next session.; still we are not without sanguine WI)
that with Earl Grey in the House of Lords/
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Mr. Buller in the Commons, and the new Colessl
Secretary to deal with, and who is reputed to bbl
least a man of business, and who will lend a FitoiS
ear to their representations—and who, we liopetqf
despise all party manoeuvring or diplomatic ell,eif
nery, the friends of colonisatit n will rally
scattered forces, make new demonstration, an'peol
be able to achieve some substantial and perms
good in the ensuing session, which will serve
new starting-point in this great national work.

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FALL FROM A HAY RlCK.—YPsterday o-,
between 11 and 12 o'clock, a serious accident oceurr!u. Is;
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son of Matthew Prioron, Esq., a gentleman resldderfo
Thames Ditton. The youth was playin with soul! plOy
panions in a paddock, when, to.hide himself from bison
mates, he ascended a ladder to the top of a hav-rick'frilfeb
he remained concealed for a short time, till he was lit iir4l
discovered, an ,l, in attemrtirg to get down, his f!ot sieot,
and he rill to the gr ,und. with fearful violence. 3 "PI
a.‘Tstan..:e was immediately procured, when it was tore
tamed that the young gentleman had sustained a Ira
the left leg, besides dislocating his shoulder-bone.

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BLACKIVuon.
When lovers quarrel, and a violent separation
ensues, they for a time vow with inflexible firmness
that no event whatever—no contrition shall produce
forgiveness,—and they shall remain enemies fur lite.
But in their cool moments, when the tit of passion
begins to abate, when the sympathies which bound
them together recover their wonted force from ab-
sence, and above all, when a rival i., seen approaching
the threshold of either, then all the former tenderness
returns with redoubled force—inestimable qualities,
which for the moment were slighted, appear in mag-
nified proportions, and excite the bitterest reflections.
So it is with political love, if we are to judge from
the sympathies of old 'North. For many a dreary
month he has hardly ventured to mention the name
of Peel ; he has been afraid to speak, lest his anger
and passion should get the better of his reason, and
when he did speak lie mourned over the backsliding
of friends, and foresaw nothing but ruin, desolation,
and misery., to his country. No sooner, however, is
Lord John Russell summoned from Aul Reikie to
the Isle of Wight, and the "strong Ministry" is
-beco me weak as a broken reed, than enmities are
forgotten, the recollection of old friendships re-
turn with overpowering effect, and the in-
valuable services of Peel are extolled to the
skies. When lie was in office, he did everything
that
was great and good, and Providence blessed his
labours. During his administration, " agriculture
ihas flourished and agricultural improvements advanced
in an unprecedented degree. Commerce hae plumed
her wings anew, and added other regions to her
domain. Public credit has been supported and ad-
vanced, and the revenue raised from an alarming and
increasing depression. Peace has been universally
Maintained abroad, and agitation rendered powerless
and contemptible at home." There is no bound in
short to the panegyrics on the modern Judas, for all
have confused in their hearts, whatever they may
have said, that however they may have been offended
With minor blemishes " the great purposes of govern-
ment have been achieved by the Ministry now dis-
solved, and they will frankly acknowledge with our-
selves that we shall not soon look upon its like
aYain." Now all this appears as contemptible and
sickening
as the puny quarrels of lovers. A man
110 puts himself forward as a political writer should
• oe able to weigh contending interests, see the
difficulties that surround every Minister, make
allowances for the adoption of measures which
possibly through ignorance he cannot account
for,
arid strengthen, not weaken, the arm in
Which only he can trust for safety. But these
bigoted Tories cannot act so. They will have
everything their own way, an whn thwarted, they
become more virulent against d theire friends than their
t'enetnies. We are glad to find, however, that they
have got a terrible fright, and begin to see the
error of their ways. Peel, by deserting them, has
brought them to their senses, and they are now
Willing to behave better for the future. Blackwood
has led the way, and looks forward with calm com-
osure to an event which but a few years ago
Ile denounced as little less than sacrilege. He is
prepared to let the corn-laws die a natural death,

This
only they are not killed outright at once.
This is an important conversion, and we therefore
'eollgratulate him on the returning good sense dis-
Played in the following extract :-
44 We should, at the same time, act with a want of
candour and frankness towards our agricultural friends,
if we did not direct their attention to another aspect of
thecas,lf it be true, contrary to our own hopes and
convictions, that repeal is inevitable, every thing de-
Pends on the time and manner of effecting it. 'I here is
an inestimable value attend.ng ev ry year of continued
Protection that can yet be gained Even a compara-
tively short period might be of infinite importance in
completing those great improvemi nts now in progress,
Which will raise th available fertility of so large a por-
tion of our soil, but which must instantly stop, if pro-
tection be suddenly withdrawn. It is not in our poker
to see far into futurity, but every delay irt precious, as
enablinfs- us better to meet the demands of public neees-
aitY9 and to - .-tand a competitien with foreign soils,
:p
that cvmpetition must ultimately be entered upon
without legii.ilative aid."
The other articles in this number are generally
Well written. Among ethers, we may mention a
historical sketch of Sir Willain Follett, though now
rather out of date. The " Greek and Romantic
Drama;" "A Campaign in Texas," and "Military
Costume." In the latter we like the English tone
that prevails throughout, and especially the denun-
ciation against the introduction of German anti other
foreign frivolities into the British army. The Albert
'cap is thus graphically described, and doomed to de-
ttruction :
"N:vor, since the day when men first armed their
heads for the fight, has there been seen such a paltry,
ugly, useless, bastard kind of a thing as the last cap
turned tut for the British army. With its poke before
and behind, its conical top and low eh- vation, it is a de
graded cross between n Germat.o Tyrolese cap and a
policeman's hat—a bad mixture of both. May it be
sent
i back to Germany, where the idea came from, and
_ be stuff,d into a barrel of sour-trout, not to come
oat till it is thcnoughly rotted."

FRA SER.
There is much information, with not a little amuse-
ent too, in the article en "Public patronage of Men of
• Ltters." The author has evidently studied the his-
`tocry of the race well, and furnishes many particulars
.°L,the principal writers from Chaucer to Byron,
Scott, and Southey, new to many readers, ar-
'aged with much skill, and some of them not a little
h.gtaceful to the Government and the age in which
'Y lived. When in these days we find pensions
granted to literary men and literary women of very
ordinary abilities, some of whom too are neither in
,want nor have much claim on the civil list, and look
1.
flack to the past, and find that not a few of extraordi-
nary merit, not only for the beauty of their writings,
but for the services they rendered their country, were
'flowed to pine in want, the contrast is distressing,
k 'ld lowers in public estimation the sovereign and the
'sister who could suffer such neglect. Some of
'm absolutely died of want, others were compelled
!o live in exile, and when rewards came, they came too
Ate , or were of such a contemptible character that the
very act of conferring the paltry favour only showed the
meat and ungrateful spirit of the distributor of patron-
aß c. loldsmith, for his very existence, was compelled to
become a mere literary hack; Smollett was allowed
to end Ins gays in exile, pinched in his means and
el ifeebled in his body, from the incessant labour of
" riting for bread ; Burns was employed to " guage
0- d firkins, an d support a wife and family on the poor
et loluments of an Exciseman's office." This reflects
et rnal disgrace on Pitt, for he was aware of the fact.
" Mr. Addington;" says the writer, " reminded that
gr sat statesman of the poet's genius, and the poor
sit u'ttion it was hislot t fill. Mr Pitt promised to
do something for him, pushed the bottle on, and re-
in anbered his promise—if he remembered it at all—
r.‘en the fine-hearted poet of genuine nature was no
mot e." This was consistent with Pitt's character.
o
'Burns was an ardent lover of liberty---nlan
'`songs breathe the principles which the ~ he
1M
inister" once professed, but when he f mnvyen of
rbn
hri;
'`songsd it con-
.vvenient to disown them, he delighted in hunting
`:lawn all those isho remained faithful to the creed.
But what is to be said of Dibiin ? Never did any
writer render such services to his country—for years
he was unrewarded, and got something at last when
he was old and unable to enjoy it. Even George
• W., whri wished to tread in the footsteps of Au-
gustus, offered something to Sheridan on his death-
bed, and to " poor old O'Keefe," as his Majesty called
him, when he was ninety years of age. The letter
, ..which the King wrote to Sir William Knighton
,on
e subject, is so characteristic of the man, and shows
now concisely and elegantly a King could write, that
-wegpievaerit entire. It was written in 1826 :
Friend.-_.A little charitable impulse induces
Cato desire you to ir quire into the distressed circum-
aeeB of poor old Olitvefe, now ninety years of age
hEt,r• "one blind, whom I knew a little of formerly,
Ntrilelg occasionally met him at parties of my juvenile
t iittittion and hilarity, to which he then contributed not
a Ind e• Should you really find him so low in the world,
hensc., divested of all comfort as he is represented to be,
Te -I do conceive that these can be no objection to your
ai ring him from me such immediate relief, or such a
hi trate annual stipend, as will enable him to close his
t erto long life in comfort,—at any rate, free from
tnt
.and absolute beggary, which I greatly fear, at pre-
p, etilts but
.r too truly his actual condition and situation.
ui aPs, on many accounts and reasons, hich lam
ui re I need not mention to you, this had best be effec-
t aetleyd lbitythrim
i:c:etirat i; ediate application, through you, to our
friend, G. Colman, whose good heart will, I
certain, lead him to give us all the assistance he can,
of it is for the preservation of one of his
• st invalided brothers and worshippers of the Thes-
pi an Muse. " G R.
Aaser has
_sa long article on what he calls " Mys-
vi the Cabinet," but he throws no new light on
irra
i tihintf yui .5
s,teries, and also leaves his own opinions very
1" we except one part of it, when he calls
on
jz the ag•riculturists to raise their standard, and
fi scribe on it "no surrender." Mr. Macaulay
ji4g,siti.re' among " Contemporary Orators," and obtains
irlee ; character, as a speaker and writer, is
y drawn, and creditable to the impartiality of the
iter. The numb,3r altogether contains a fair pro-
ret'lTl., of good articles, but we regret to find cur
tat
en' Morgan Rattler still wasting his time and his
cla
ceela
,nsitcas
i ldis on railways, in place of devoting them to those
.7115 tly qrautiesdit.ions and illustrations for which he is

BENTLEY.
Maxwell opens the present number of Bentley with e ontinuation of "Brian O'Linn," and in these chap-
! et s the hero relates the adventures of his boy hood. Of
‘ll birth and parentage he knows nothing, as he is a
'fikNin; who was committed when only an infant
"'IA Mon tiia old to the care of a priest, residing on a
et ky island on the west-coast of Ireland. The priest
'
, .t 4 been seilt for to a lugger in the offing, to confess a
tent in articulo mortis. He arrrives just as the peni-
s lady apparently of rank, is dying, receives from

her 1,r,1,. Brian, who is bretight up by the.
isianueis as oi.e Ineir own ctindren. Tnese islanders
are confirmed smugglers, and we have a most animated
account of a conflict between a smuggling craft and a
cruiser, in which the smuggler makes his escape. As
Brian grows up he is taken under the patronage of a
certain William St. George a fine high spirited
young cavalry office, whose death in a duel (which is
very graphically described), concludes the portion of
the novel given in the present number. " Early
Years of a Veteran," " Gaining and naming-houses,"
"The Reminiscences of the Gaol Chaplain," and
" The Outpourings of D. Canter," are continued in
the present number. The Libation of D. Canter is
a revelation concerning private theatricals in general,
and concerning Pym's in particular. The hints which
he gives to amateurs are well worthy of attention.
Rifleman Harris relates some interesting anecdotes
of the "iietreat to Corunna ;" and the " Humbug of
Quackery" (tractors, and touching for the evil, to
wit, which seem to be now on the point of being
revived under another name), is well shown up by
a physician. The expose is admirable, but we fear it
will be useless, for as Burke justly observes, " the
wearing out of an old only serves to put the fraudu-
lent upon the invention of a new delusion." " Un-
luckiiy, too, the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible
as the invention of knaves." Albert Smith contri-
butes a curious ghost-story—a real ghost story, and
Alfred Crowquill, an amusing sketch entitled " The
Picture." 11 e have also a beautifully engraved por-
trait of Ah'red Crowquill, and an illustration of the
duel scene from Brian ()Thin. The concluding arti-
cle in the Miscellany, is a gem of pathos and poetry.
It proceeds from, and goes directly to the heart.
Here it is. It is entitled "My Child's Grave :"
My little one the world looks cold,
My sadden'd heart doth turn to thee,
And now again mine eyes behold
Thy mound beneath the alder tree
Once more I tend the flow'rs that bloom
Beside thine unpretending tomb !
Sweet innocent they sanctify
Thy place of throbless rest awhile,
With dew-drops borrow'd from on high,
And many a joyous summer smile
The rudest winds that o'er thee move
Are soften'd to a breath of love
A meditative beauty here
Doth linger on the quiet scene,
And, waken'd to a sense of pray'r,
The mind looks forth unveil'd—.serene ;
While thoughts are rife of those beneath,
Amidst the solitude of Death
And lovingly we trace again
Each unforgotten semblance o'er,—
The fond caress,—the playful vein,
The tenderness, endear'd of yore !
They steal upon us in that hour
When Memory resumes her power.
And thou, my child, I shadow forth,
In all thine artless, infant grace,
That made me prize thee first of earth,
And bless thy bright and winsome face ;
Though fleetly closed thy dawn of life,—
At least, it knew no taint of strife
I fondly thought thou wouldst become
My stay, my hope, in years' decline ;
But comfortless is now my home,
And dimly doth its taper shine :
For what have Ito do with joy,
When thou hast wander'd hence, my boy ?
I know thou art in yonder heaven,
With rays of fadeless glory crown'd,
But still my steps each quiet even
Bend thither to this holy ground.
Strange sympathy my feelings have
With that secluded moss-clad grave I
There, seated by thy little stone,
My thoughts to other days allied,
I count the weary seasons gone,
Since thou wert at thy father's side,
And lisping out, as day grew dim,
Thy mother's own loved vesper hymn !
The streamlet murm'ring by doth seem
To wake familiar tones to me ;
The passing wind, too, stirs a theme
That brings me nearer still to thee :
And thus in sweet commune of love
I seek my long-lost child above !
I cannot weep,—ms tears are spent,—
But not the less my heart doth mourn,
When upward these weak eyes are bent,
Then desolate—to earth return :
But soon the conflict will be ;,'er,
And, angel we shall part no more