...come ! Though from Hope's summit hurled, Still, rigid nurse, thon art forgiven, For thou, severe, wert sent from heaven To wean me from the world ; To turn my eye Prom vanity, And point to scenes of bliss that never, never die." HENBY KIKKB WHITE. Soon after Martha...

...and now so long and so sadly mourn ! Change I Change 1 Change ! all is Change 1 What is this changing scene ? A peevish April day; A little sun, a little rain, And then nigh't sweeps across the plain, And all things fade away ! Man, soon discussed. Yields up hu trust, And nil his hopes...

...•window, and leaning my forehead against the pane, cried as if my heart would break. CHAPTER XV. " Wliat is this passing scene ? A peevish April day ! A little sun, a little rain, Arid then night sweeps along the plain, And all things fade away." KIBKE WIIITE. THE grey dawn was...

...come I Though from Hope's summit hurled, Still, rigid nurse, thou art forgiven, For thou severe wert sent from heaven To wean me from the world; To turn my eye From van,ty, And point to scenes of bliss that never, never die. What ardently I wished, I long believed;...

...come ! Though from Hope's summit hurl'd ; Still, rigid Nurse, thou art forgiven, For thou severe wert sent from heaven To wean me from the world ; To turn...And point to scenes of bliss that never, never die. What is this passing scene ? A peevish April day ! A little sun, a little rain, And then night sweeps...

...and sunny, but fleeting, and delusive, which called forth poor Kirke White's graphic lines : — " What is this passing scene ? A peevish April day !...little rain, And then night sweeps along the plain." 14. Autumn, too, has its enthusiastic admirers : it is the season chiefly worshipped by poetic temperaments...

...coine ! Though from Hope's summit hurl'd ; Still, rigid Nurse, thou art forgiven, For thou severe wert sent from heaven To wean me from the world ; To turn...And point to scenes of bliss that never, never die. What is this passing scene ? A peevish April day ! A little sun, a little rain, And then night sweeps...

...great truth — so plain, yet so hard to learn— that " all is vanity, and vexation of spirit." . " What is this passing scene ? A peevish April day: A little sun, a little rain, And then nifiht sweeps along the plain, And all things fade away: • Man — soon discussed — Yields up his...

...away, and too soon we find the hand of Time, close on the midnight moment of our earthly existence. What is this passing scene, A peevish April day ; A little sun, a little rain, And then Death sweeps across the plain, And all things fade away. It was a lovely autumnal morning, when I copied...

...Hope's summit hurled, Still, rigid nurse, thou art forgiven, For thou severe wert sent from heaver To wean me from the world; To turn my eye From vanity,...And point to scenes of bliss that never, never die. What is this passing scene ? A peevish April day ! A little sun — a little rain, And then night sweeps...