[334] “We cannot refrain quoting another poem by the same distinguished writer. It has something sublime.”—Blackwood’s Magazine, Jan. 1826.

EVENING PRAYER, AT A GIRLS’ SCHOOL.

“Now in thy youth, beseech of Him

Who giveth, upbraiding not,

That His light in thy heart become not dim,

And his love be unforgot;

And thy God, in the darkest of days, will be

Greenness, and beauty, and strength to thee.”

Bernard Barton.

Hush! ’tis a holy hour. The quiet room