[112] It is but a few years since the death of Dr. Brownson’s mother, and his twin-sister still survives.
[113] The Convert, p. 96
THE ASCENSION.
“Thou art gone up on high.”—Ps. lxvii. 18.
Gone up! But whither? To a star?
Some orb that seems a point of light?
Or one too infinitely far
For our fond gaze beneath the night?
Some fairer world, to which our own,