Fix life fast, banish death,"C

C: ReverieAsolando.

has not the power to effect his will; while the Power, whose limitlessness he recognizes everywhere around him, merely maintains the world in its remorseless course, and puts forth no helping hand when good is prone and evil triumphant. "God does nothing."

"'No sign,'—groaned he,—

No stirring of God's finger to denote

He wills that right should have supremacy

On earth, not wrong! How helpful could we quote

But one poor instance when He interposed

Promptly and surely and beyond mistake

Between oppression and its victim, closed