The name, a nation’s star!

One deep voice thus arose

From a heart which wrongs had riven:

Oh! who shall number those

That were but heard in heaven?

SONGS OF A GUARDIAN SPIRIT.

NEAR THEE, STILL NEAR THEE![408]

Near thee, still near thee!—o’er thy pathway gliding,

Unseen I pass thee with the wind’s low sigh;

Life’s veil enfolds thee still, our eyes dividing,