...and fortitude, are touchiugly expressed in these lines, with which our quotations shall conclude — "Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering all things — Fair was she and young ; bat alas 1 before her extended, Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of life, with its pathway,...

...them was seen a maiden who waited and wander'd, Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suff 'ring all things. Fair was she and young: but, alas ! before...vast, and silent, the desert of Life, with its pathway Mark'd by the graves of those who had sorrow'd and snffer'd btfon her, Passions long cxtinguish'd,...

...and fortitude, are touchingly expressed in these lines, with which our quotations shall conclude — "Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering...of those who had sorrowed and suffered before her. * * * Something there was in her life, incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, As if » morning of June,...

...from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. " Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered. Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering all things. Fair was she and young ; Something there was in her life incomplete, imperfect, unfinished ; As if a morning of June, with...

...become so linked with the happiness of her existence, that to contemplate its extinction, was to see before her extended " Dreary and vast and silent the desert of life." No, rather was she content in doubt, darkness and uncertainty to wait and wander, her hope stil] fixed...

...on tablets of stone in the church-yards. Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandercd, Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suff'ering all things. Fair was slie and young; but, alas! before her cxtended, Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of lifc, with...

...on tablets of stone in the churchyards. Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered, Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering...of those who had sorrowed and suffered before her, Camp-fires long consumed, and bones that bleach in the sunshine. Something there was in her life incomplete,...

...on tablets of stone in the churchyards. Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered, Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering...and vast and silent, the desert of life, with its Marked by the graves of those who had sorrowed and suffered before her, Passions long extinguished,...

...on tablets of stone in the churchyards. Long among them was seen a maiden who waited and wandered, Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering...extinguished, and hopes long dead and abandoned, As the emigrant'^ way o'er the Western desert is marked by Camp-fires long consumed, and bones that bleach...

...Ah, there's no happiness out of home ! " Such is the narrative as given by this author, who adds, " Fair was she and young ; but alas ! before her extended,...of those who had sorrowed and suffered before her." Still he continues, as our own poet says, — in her face, Though faded like the others, grief Had...