EVENING AND MORNING.
II T. »■ *** D -
When ball of vesper calls to prayer,
With slow and solemn toll,
Soft heavenly sounds pervade the air,
And penetrate the soul,
Whose notes administer to ms,
At upward thoughts nriss,
A foretaste of that melody
Eternal in the skies.
When morning gilds the rolling waves.
And lips the hills with light,
Affrighted darknass seeks the eaves,
Tbs gloomy realms of night.
Then awellethe tout, and all within
With glorious visions burn
Of that origin mom when Night and Sin
Shall fly to ne’er return.
Then, oh, my soul, prepare, obey
The certain warning given ;
Here night most end the brightest day—
Eternal day is Heaven.
From Graham's Magazine,
THE WIFE.
01 HR* r. (. OSGOOD, AUTHOR or “thz casket
or raTie, rtc.
“All precious tilings discovered late,
To those that aeek them issue forth;
Fo. Love, in sequel, works with Fata,
And draws the rail from hidden worth.’*
CHAPTER I.
Colrl mill while as the bridal blos
aonis in her hair was the youthl'ul
cheek, which a glow of love anti pride
should have kindled into color—for
Harriet Percy, though about to become
the bride of the most admired and dis
tinguished man in the country was too
well convinced of bis indifference to
be happy in the prospect. She knew
that with him it was a marriage of ex
pediency. That he was poor—that he
required means to further his ambitious
views, and that, though uniformly kind
and respectful in his manner when they ,
met, he had scarcely bestowed a tho’t
upon her mind, heart or person, during
the three weeks which intervened be
tween their introduction to each other
and this their bridal morning.
