The American patriot., 1855-04-21
N I GHT.
BY MARIAN.


How lovely is night; a starry. summer night,
when peace, and quiet, take the place Of the
busy day. Oh, it is sweet, to one of medita-
tive mind, to muse away the twilight hour, to
behold the stars, one by one, come out, and
the moon ride high in her majesty. 1t lifts the
soul to God, it brings, whom
Sun, and moon, and stars, and seas obey"
How welcome is night to the weary. Who
has not felt, after the labor of wearisome
day, how refreshing it is to lay the tired limbs
upon our beds, to seek the pillow of repose,
to forget our cares, our troubles, our heart
burnings and sleep calmly and sweetly as an
infants sleep.
Night is the time for dreams, when our
sleeping and waking thoughts seem blended
together, when the past and the future are be-
fore us, and visionary forms seem fitting about
our couch; and lost ones are with US, and we
live over again the days of other years, and
feel the
"Hopes that we're cherished in their birth,
But perished young, like things of earth"
Night is the time for toll, for intellectual toll
The student loves the night; he can then ex-
plore the fields of science, Intent to find the
rich treasure Of knowledge, with which to sat
isfy the aspirations of an immortal mind.
Turn thee, mistaken one, to the fountain of
knowledge, and learn, that "the fear of the
Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the
knowledge of the Holy One is understanding"
Night is welcome to the sick, and earth's
weary ones, and to the homesick mind it brings
the recollection of that we have loved, and
left, it may be, in a distant land, or who have
gone before us, to that bright land,
"Where It's one summer always, and storms never
come"
Night is the time for repentance. We brood
over the many hours mis-spent, and back to
our memory comes every sin, and wrong, and
unkind word, and harsh neglect, till the strick-
en- one will weep, and Hope will fold her wings,
and Despair's dark cloud settle heavily over
the mourner, till the bright sun OF Gods for
giving love dispels our every fear. Night is
the time for prayer.
Our blessed Savior oft withdrew from the
busy throng of men, and in desert mountain,
poured out his agonizing prayer, and so will
all do who follow him. They will steal away
at evenings hour, and pray in solitude.
Night is the time to die. When all nature
is hushed in silence, to calmly yield up this
mortal breath, to cease from sin and toll, to
leave this world of pain, and lie down in the
grave, to sleep that sleep which knows no
waking, till we put on immortal bloom in the
paradise of God.
love the night; music is sweetest, when
borne upon the heavy air Of night;
Scare is lighter, joy is brighter,
In the still and peaceful night"
How intensely solemn is moonlight burial,
when the fowery May turf is broken for one
more grave, and the cofined form Gt may have
been dear to us) is lowered into its narrow
resting-place, which may become to us hal
lowed ground, where we will often come, in the
pure and softened moonlight, and sit and think
Of them who may lie low at our feet. And
there will be night, when you and will lie
down, to never rise again.
Then, ye needless followers of vanity, ye
who pass your nights in unthinking mirth, re-
member, that above the sky, in Gods book,
are remembered all your nights and days; and
ye, who are ready for this solemn tribunal,
welcome each night, as one nearer to the frui-
ton of your hopes, and when the night Of
T death shall come, joyfully resign your feeble
breath for glorious home in the skies. Again
l say, blessed night!
MAKING THINGS CONVENIENT is no
thing like accommodating ones self to circum
stances. The following striking example
which is related by the Boston Telegraph, is
worthy Of great praise: The ship Queen o
the Seas, which cleared at this port yesterday
for San Francisco, has all her berths taken up
Among the passengers are several young ladies
A gentleman wishing very much to take pas
1 sage in the ship, found there was no room TO
him except by marrging one of the youn
ladies, which he accordingly did; and tn
berth which was to be occupied by the youn
lady, will now be filled by 1--WE hope) happ
couple.