whereupon seemed stamped the law of kindness. And he stood -there in their very midst ;-the spot was nature's own the only auditors the untutored children of the forest: and yet here was formed a treaty, such as Christendom never saw, such as Prince and Potentate might come and look upon—a treaty ratified without an oath! Pointless were the arrows of the red man, hushed was the voice of the Indian, as they listened to his words of truth and soberness. Years have rolled over us since that memorable day-lost is the trace of the savage, and felled the lofty elm under which they stood but the government then and there formed, resting on the two great columns of Religion and Virtue, still exists :— a prouder monument, a lofter mausoleum for him than the most classic Roman urn, than the stateliest Egyptian Pyramid. His monument is built on a more enduring base—the happiness of man! E. N. Stanzas. TRY, and perchance thou mayst not err, Impels his barque o'er unknown waves. There is an evil and a good In every heart unknown to thee, A darker or a brighter mood, Than aught thine eye can ever see: Perhaps thy sterner mind condemns, In pain, in love, in weariness: Thou callest him weak, he may be so- Perhaps thy spirit's calm repose, No evil dream hath come to spoil: The pure, the holy, they perchance, But there their pious aid hath been: E. TAYLOR. Ir is good to seal the infant forehead with the mark of hope. It is good to form the infant mind: to take the infant reason patiently and gently by the hand, and guide it in its little. excursions. Oh! it is good, beyond all names of goodness, to spread out the wings of sheltering love over an infant soul, and put it on that path which leads to its eternal home. This is that ladder which the Patriarch saw in vision. To mount at first is but a single step: for it is planted in the nursery-at the cradle-side-and thence leads upward, and upward, and onward, and onward; with holy angels ascending and descending -high over time and sense and earth, through the clouds of distance and the shades of death, to the highest heaven and the throne of God! EVERET. Mantell's Museum. COLUMBUS of the subterranean mine! Star of Geology! whose rays enlighten No more shall we confine our thoughts and hopes, Exhaustless stores of scientific treasure. Primeval nature here uplifts her veil Here spreads her mystic volume, in whose pages Her votaries read, and reverently hail The wondrous records of uncounted ages. Wrecks of an olden time are here combined— As stamped memorials of her changful eras. Oh how bewildering is the thought, that erst, Ferns arborescent on its flowery shore, With giant palms and Southern fruits were blended, While birds uncouth, whose races are no more, Poised on the torrid air with wings extended. 172 MANTELL'S MUSEUM. Unto these sunny banks-this thermal tide, In length a whale—but of the lizard race— Doubt ye these startling facts? look round—a proof Yes, where the huntsman winds his matin horn, And the couched hare amid the covert trembles, Where shepherds tend their flocks, or grows the corn, Where fashion on our gay Parade assembles ; Wild horses, deer, and elephants, have strayed, The heaven-exploring Newton brought to light, Both have confirmed the Psalmist " If I fly Still of thine omnipresence have I warning.” MANTELL'S MUSEUM. 'Tis not this rare Museum's highest praise, To charm the learned and the scientific: But that in all approaches it must raise, Feelings and thoughts of holiness prolific : For he who once within its verge hath trod, HORACE SMITH. Ir thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger! henceforth be warned, and know that pride, Is littleness that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used: that thought with him Is in its infancy.-The man whose eye Is ever on himself, doth look on one, The least of Nature's works: one who might move Unlawful, ever-Oh, be wiser, thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love: Can still suspect and still revere himself, WORDSWORTH. 173 |