"Let us be patient! These severe afflictions

Not from the ground arise,
"But oftentimes celestial benedictions

Assume this dark disguise.
“ We see but dimly through the mists and vapours:

Amid these earthly damps,
What seem to us but sad funereal tapers,
May be heaven's distant lamps."

LONGFELLOW.

LONDON: JAMES HOGG AND SONS.