And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God alone,
Would drain the ocean dry,
Nor could the earth contain the scroll,
Though stretch'd from sky to sky."
My friend did not profess to know who wrote these lines; but he understood that they were an attempt to render in English verse a sublime passage of the great St. Augustin. It is highly probable that this eminent Father was the original author of the passage. It is extremely like one of his grand conceptions; but I have hitherto searched his voluminous works for it in vain.
F. C. H.
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