The Pearl River banner. (Monticello, Miss.) 1837-18??, 1838-11-17

made a vow never to marry and
has kept it.
A NIGHT ScEEE.--Thc stars were
differing without acloud to obscure their
light; but the full moon was slowly sink
ing beneath the western waters. Sweet
ly, calmly, like good fman gliding in
peace 10 the land Of sIeepers, did it
ahrow its melIowing light upon the city,
and along the shore Of the Seine, ere il
sank to its wavy couch.
Who that has once gazed upon that
beautiful sight, has ever forgotten i'll
Who has not, as he gazed, felt its bal.
lowing influences: aud lifted up his heart
to the golden payiions Of til. sky 10 81.
lent worship? And who that has gszed.
has not felt their feebleness, and Ionged
10 flee upon The pinions Of the dove 70
their far home in the heavens?
Even as | write, she is slowly sinking
meath the distant horizon, which rests on
the deep blue expanse, like long silken
lash on The brow OF the beautiful. She
has thus SET through months, and years.
ana centuries. cne mas mus snune over
the bright water since creation dawned.
and will thus shine until the records OF
time shall be rolled together, and the
earth and the heavens sink into chaos
She has risen upon free and happy states.
and has gli,tered upon their monuments.
Imperial Rome. rich in empire, was be-
held by her who now casts her mystic
and undimmed light upon its toltering ru-
ms. inch anged and interchangeable, she
has looked from her silent home upon for
COTTON Thebes. sceptreless Lariss, and un>
remembered Philippi, as she did wheA
the world trembled in their frown or psf-
ished beneath their tread.
| Her course through the heavens Is now
The same az the one on which She trod
generations since. Like the dew, they
have gone, and her path is on, and still on.
Cities have changed and passed away.
Nations have arisen and decayed. The
hills have mouidered, and the eternal
mountains have bowed cloud>capt palaces
10 Gust. Oceans, hoarse with telling The
flight OF centuries, have moved from their
! unfa,homed beds; and empires. big with
| conquest, swept like sparks from the FIRE.
out Of existence. Towering pyramids.
have crumbied. and they who repose be-
meath the shadow, passed 10 nothingness.
Calmly has she thus looked from her far
chambers, all glorious and unjisnmed, up
on rnese, as we wuufu upon wave chas-
ling Oh wave. on the bosom 81 the great
deep, and yet her course is onward.
IL francis Armlne.
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in6ni,y Of aspects. Shakespeare called ],
q stage, and men and oGcn the players.
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