The darkness is away:

Is not the smile of morn, in bright

And deeply glorious lines;

'Tis the first presage of its light,

The morning star that shines.


IMMORTALITY.

[The following verses were suggested by the striking reply of a Protestant minister, who was about to proceed to Ireland, to labour among the deluded and ignorant Popish peasantry, and who, on being warned by a friend of the personal danger he thereby incurred, nobly answered, "I am immortal, till my work is done!">[

What nerves the soldier in the field,