EFFIE AFTON.

"I never gaze

Upon the evening, but a tide of awe,

And love, and wonder, from the Infinite,

Swells up within me, as the running brine

From the smooth-glistening, wide-heaving sea,

Grows in the creeks and channels of a stream,

Until it threats its, banks. It is not joy,—

'Tis sadness more divine."

Alexander Smith.