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ispense, weeks heavily pass o'er

as! if she should come no more

She comes not

many hea

ith sick misgiving faint,
tching, pine in lone distress,
tears, held prisoned by love's fond restraint,
'-'cked in midnights silentness,

Worn With long w

Gush forth un

3 their wistful gaze, hope's trembling ray
vs dim and dimmer yet—is fading fast nay !

Oh. Lord of sovereign might ! before thy throne
They fall, imploring thy protecting power !
0 God of truth and love ! to thee alone
They turn for strength in this their trial hour.
How deep, how keen their anguish, only Thou,
Who knowest all, can tell : support, sustain them now !

Thou know'st the shrinking agony of fear,
That mocks the smiles the lip assumes is vain ;
Affection's art would hide the stealing tear,
With words of hope disown its writhing pain ;
_ ..

But Thou b(
When in its
Alas ! their I

ld'st the spirit's deep despair,
tude it pours its wild, impassioned prayer

Some face
loved hath vanished from the social hearth,—

Some form that charmed it with familiar grace,—
• Some tones that gladdened it with music-mirth ;
0 Lord of might ! pity their helpless pain,
Bring back their wanderers safely to their arms again

Our times are in thy hand ; in perfect rest
Thou wilt keep him whose mind is stayed on thee :
Calm thou the conflict in each tortured breast ;
Their hope, their trust, their consolation be.
Shed thy deep peace upon each care-worn brow :
Be with them, God of love ! strengthen, sustain them nov
F. A.

LITERARY NOTICES.

Fraser's Magazine for May

Regina is more than usually interesting and diversified
this month. There is much to attract the politicians, the
literati, and the general readers. The first article is a pep-

pery description of the questions which now agitate the
Church of Scotland from " Maidenkirk to John O'Groat's";
and though the writer has dipped his pen rather deep in gall,

evidently um

ae subject, and is acquainted with

movements of the non-intrusion chiefs, a few of whose
aracters he pourtrays with considerable humour and skill,

t we cannot a,

N ith equal impartiality

with ix

The " Tracts

come in for a share of attention, and, as is
nost of the leading periodicals of the day,
merited censure. It is well said at the close

he article, that " the members of the church must not
ulled into security because the Tracts are discontinued,
ye that the mischief is remedied, or that the mistaken
lvocated in those publications will no longer be pro-
" The Literary Labours of Daniel O'Connell,"
idence and falsehood of which are their original,

the im

peculiar, and distinctive claims, receive such a notice as may
be expected from a writer in Fraser's Magazine. Every
other article, which will be found enumerated in the adver-
tisement, ought to be read by all Englishmen.

Cruikshank's Omnibus. No. I. London : Tilt and Bogue,
Strand; Webb, Liverpool.
If ever a tired traveller welcomed a conveyance upon a
dusty road, we hail this Omnibus of George Cruikshank's
with heartfelt gratification ; and if ever we sincerely wished
an undertaking to " run along the road" successfully, it is
this. It is a novelty altogether, and decidedly the cheapest
on the macadamised and well-beaten highway of literature,
as well as being amongst the best. In the first place we
have a wittily written preface ; next we meet with a plate,
that contains—everything upon the globe and under the sun.
This is one of the most exquisitely worked and ingeniously

contrived, as well as amusing, things we ever met with. It
will take half an hour to examine, and, when well looked at,
will occupy another, which will be expended in admiration
of the talent of the man who could contrive it. Next we
have a likeness of the artist himself—an inimitable sketch :

it beats all photogenic likenesses hollow " by notches.
Next comes the leading article, entitled " My Portrait

The intent
Mr. Cruik:

m of this is to cut up the description given of
iank in some pen-and-ink sketch which appeared