The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-09-08

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She looks within the mirror. and her form
Is from its dazzling crystal given again
In living beauty; yet a hueless charm
Ia on the lip; the blue pellucil vein
Wanders across q brow where silent pain
Sheds paleness on its polsh'd way.
The crimson OF the cheek has felt the sta1n
OF tears that flowed unseen by human eye,
As from her pillow rose her midnight prayer
todie.
And so she died-in early beauty died,
a yiolet by its first soft shower decay'd;
A fash Of radiance on nfe's changing tide,
Just seen and loved, and sunk In EVENING"
| shade;
4 young sweet star, Just rising, butt to feda;
| And this fair image smiling in sad bloom
! On her, SO soon in quiet to be laid, W.
Looks like an angel, in its Weakness come
To tell hex OF the tomb, her calm. her hallowd
| tomb.
In one OF his sermons, comparing
woman wish man, he says
"Wonan is the counterpart of man,
but cast in gentEer mould. She has
the form, the faculties, and the fealings
of man, but all touched with soft hue;
for his courage she has fortitude; for his
energy she has patience; for his benev-
olenoe she has sympathy; Cor his firm
ness she has fidelity; for his indignation
she has tears. The qualities OF her in
tellect are equally sottened; for the fire
of talent she has taste, tenderness, and
simplicity. Dignity and vigor are the
qualities of mans for1n-~woman has
grace, delioacy, and elegance. If the
beauty Of nlan's conntenance is in the
expression Of intellect, the beauty OF
woman's is in it's sensibility, in its ap-
peal to the heart; in q power of captiva-
hon, which has been felt in every age.
The loneliness Of woman, in its more
perfect examples. equals the highest i'm
agination Of man. When the painter
fills his mind with the highest elements
Of imaginary loneliness he can never go
beyond nature-when he would picture
angels, he can give us only the features
OF womanl"
Croly's remains were, by permission
of the Home Secretary, inferred in the
ohancel of St. Stephens Church. Wal
brook. The church is in the very centre
of the city-in the very centre OF Lon
don's mighty roar-and stands, g. heavy,
solemn looking pile, partly hid behind
the Mansion House. Inside, however,
it presents more light and graceful ap-
pearance than the majority Of protestant
churches. The building is an old one,
judging by the dates on many of the
memorials Of departed city merchants
with which the wallis are filed; but
thanks to the artistic tastes of the pres
emit Rector, the Rev. W. Winale Ito whom
/ am under an obligation for the sketch
Of Dr.. Oroly's monument), it has been
made internally one Of the fnestin Lon
don. It is greatly admired by the
crowds who come to see, and few Of the
visitors omit to notice the fine monument
Of DR.. Croly on the north wall, and read
it's Inscriptions. The monument con-
sists Of two very fine marble tablets,
surmounted by well-executed bust Of
Croly, the features being strongly
marked, stern ard unyielding.
On the other did, of the church is q
marble tablet to the memory of his cid
est son, George Alfred CroIy, Lieuten-
ant OF the 26 Regiment Of Bengal Light
Infantry, who was killed in the battle of
Femzeshushur, India, in 1845, at the age
of twenty-three.