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Sometimes, grief adding force, he doth depart, He will against his will, keep on his pace; But strait remorse so worketh in his heart,

That hasting thoughts yield to a pausing space: Then, mighty reasons press him to remain, She whom he flies doth win him home again.

But when his thought at sight of his abode, Presents the sign of his presumed on shame, Repenting every step that back he trod,

He dries his tears and doth his weakness blame: Thus, warring with himself, a field he fights, Where every wound upon the giver lights.

But who can fly from what his heart doth feel? What change of place can change implanted pain?

The thought of health will not the sufferer heal; Sick heart that shift no fits, shift rooms in vain: Where thought can see, what helps the closed eye?

Where heart pursues, what gains the foot to fly?

The following stanzas, in a piece entitled,` "Man's Civil War," have much felicity of expression.

My soaring thoughts would fly to heaven,
And quiet nestle in the sky;
My bark would fain in virtue's haven,

Secure from storms at anchor lie :

But mounting thoughts are all weighed down
By heavy poise of mortal load,
And blustering storms deny my ship,
Safe anchor in that sheltered road.

The inward eye to heavenly sights

To draw the longing heart is fain, When comes the world with its delights, And bids it back to earth again. Sad lot! when spirit, moulded free,

Becomes the feeble sense's prey; Hard hap! when halves must disagree, And the worse half the whole betray.

What wisdom hates will fancy love,

And overrule the feeble will; Though wisdom with her frown reprove, She leads her victim captive still. Resisting first, at length I faint,

And from my firm resolves decline; Though reason woo me to the saint,

Yet sense doth win me to the shrine.

The following is pleasing in its native beauty-simplex munditiis.

SEEK FLOWERS OF HEAVEN.

Soar up, my soul, unto thy rest,

Cast off this loathsome load; Too long the date of thy exile, Too tedious thy abode. Graze not on worldly, withered weed, It fitteth not thy taste; The flowers of everlasting spring,

Do grow for thy repast.

Their leaves are stained in beauty's dye,
And blazoned with its beams;
Their stalks enameled with delight,

And limned with glorious beams.
Life-giving juice of living love
Their sugared veins doth fill,
And watered with eternal showers,
They nectar-drops distil.

These flowrets spring from fertile soil,

Though from uncultured field;
Unstinted is the heavenly growth
These happy regions bear;
Whose sovereign sweets, surpassing sense,
So ravish all the mind,

That worldly weeds he needs must loathe,
Who doth such flowrets find.

Southwell's" Profession of Philosophy" is easy and graceful, terse and vigorous. I dwell in grace's court,

Rich in fair virtue's rights;

Faith guides my wit, love leads my will,
Hope all my mind delights.
From lowly vale I mount

To pleasure's highest pitch;
My simple garb true honor brings,
My poor estate is rich.

My conscience is my crown,

Contented thoughts my rest;
My heart is happy in itself,
My bliss is in my breast.
Enough I reckon wealth;

That mean the surest lot,
Which lies too high for base contempt,
Too low for envy's shot.

My wishes are but few,

And easy to fulfil:

I make the limit of my power,
The bounds unto my will.

I have no hope but one,

And that of heavenly reign; This highest aim kept full in view

Will lower hopes restrain.

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From the Dublin Review.

RELIGION IN ENGLAND AFTER THE REFORMATION.

ET us now consider the character of the

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religion which succeeded to that, of which we have endeavored to trace a faint outline, and which had well nigh existed for a thousand years in these realms, and then see whether this new order of things was not even a fresh kindling of the wrath of God, and a still heavier chastisement for our sins, rather than a boon from Him, "who openeth his hand, and filleth with blessing every living creature ;" whether it were not, of its very self, a curse that blighted wherever it touched, and an awful and distinctive token of the malediction of heavena malediction that carried with it this most miserable judgment also, that while it punished for past offences, it excited to new ones, so that the sinner has never ceased to add sin to sin.* Though in its course Protestantism swelled into a very deluge, which for a time swept every thing before it, both the altar and the throne; changing Carmel into a wilderness; converting a pleasant garden, abounding in many virtues, into a moral waste overgrown with thorns and briars ; driving faith, hope, and charity from the sanctuary, and leaving us even to this day with "a land of closed churches, hushed bells, unlighted altars, unstoled priests, as if the kingdom were under an interdict;"+ yet, all this came not at once, though it all sprang but from one sin. Like the fall of Adam, the unbridled passion of Henry cast its deadening shade over a whole empire, infused its poison into the veins of a whole race, and verified to the letter, that awful denunciation of divine vengeance, that “an unwise king shall be the ruin of his people."

True it is, that this "first born son of the reformation," came not in peace, but with a sword, and was indeed born for the fall of many; for he it was who, by severing the unity of the Church, removed the key

* Wisdom iii, 28. Faber's Foreign Churches.

stone from the arch, and exposed the whole structure to certain ruin; it tottered for a few short moments under the feeble props which a spurious and unnatural exercise of the power so lately usurped could supply, and then sunk into an utter and undistinguishable wreck.

Once that the covenant with Peter was violated, the only secure foundation for unity was torn up, and though every possible effort was made to repair it, no ingenuity could devise a substitute. The pride of innovation proved greater than its power; and act after act was in vain passed for "the repression and extirpation of all errors, heresies, and other enormities;" "for the conservation of the peace, unity, and tranquillity of the realm;" for abolishing "diversity of opinions;" for establishing "the most perfect unity and concord in all things, and in especial in the true faith and religion of God;" and though the whole power of the tiara was transferred to the crown,—

which power the crown was nothing loth to exercise; and though it was backed by the civil authorities with fire and faggot at their command, of which too, they in turn, were not slack to avail themselves; still diversity of opinions sprang up on all sides, and never ceased to occupy-often to elude all the vigilance of the royal inquisitor, and to baffle the most barbarous execution of the law. But the authority which was powerless for good, was soon found to be most apt for mischief, and the tyrannical and unflinching disposition of him who wielded it, acting upon the dastardly subserviency of the great ones of the land,the caitiff descendants of the proud barons of England, for the first time in the history of the country, laid all the liberties of the kingdom (which had been won with such heroic resistance to arbitrary sway) prostrate at the feet of the monarch, giving equal force to the proclamation of the sov

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ereign, and the parliamentary law of the realm. Nay, so abjectly submissive, so passively obedient did they become under the dawn of their new illuminations, and under the plastic hand of power, that they even passed a step in advance, and invested the counsellors of the king's successor, if he were under age, with the right of setting forth proclamations in his name, of the same authority as if issued by the king himself: and it was in virtue of this very act that the religion of the late reign was supplanted; that all the diversities of opinions, the errors, heresies, and other enormities which sacrificed the unity of the Church, the peace and tranquillity of the realm, and deluged it with irreligion, impiety, and sacrilege, were accomplished during the minority of the infant sovereign, who had succeeded to his more imperious, but less inconsistent father.

It was indeed to little purpose to pray to be delivered from schism, as they were ordered to do in the Litany of 1535, when they had wilfully run headlong into it; or, that all "perverse sects" might be avoided, when they had opened the broad road for their admission; or that they might "withstand the frauds and snares of their ghostly enemy," when they themselves had set the toils; or that they might "die in the very true Catholic faith," when they had not only most solemnly protested against it, and bound themselves by oath to abide in another, but had made the very profession of it high treason against the state! For is it not written that "the hope of the hypocrite shall perish" through his appointment "Who maketh a hypocrite to reign for the sins of the people?" And thus again did they earn the recompense that awaited them, and "the congregation of hypocrites was made desolate." That desolation came indeed with a rapid and appalling vengeance. It rent the veil of the sanctuary, but it had no better covenant to establish in its place. No, the covenant of God, the inheritance of Christ, his seamless coat, the pillar and the ground of truth, was treated with as little ceremony as an antiquated building, grown out of date and taste,-like one of those fashions which this capricious world

of ours has decked herself out withal for a season, and then discarded as something of which it had grown weary because it lacked novelty, and which they had as good a right to change as to change the fancy of their vain apparel. What had, therefore, been venerated for its antiquity, for its majestic comeliness, its beauteous splendor, its happy adaptation to its purposes, for the associations which had grown up around it, and to which every succeeding age added new charms, and imparted a new interest, became despoiled of half its glory, contracted in all its fair proportions, and profaned in its most holy rites.

To give zest to the meagre fare which was now served up to the religious appetites of the people, in lieu of the sumptuous feast to which they had been hitherto accustomed, that discarded Church which had heretofore provided it with such a lavish hand, became the object of the bitterest antipathy. The dark unfeeling zealots, and ravenous extortioners, who were dividing the land between fanaticism and infidelity, "knew full well that the sword of the law could not have been wielded with such deadly effect against the holy and ancient religion of these islands, if that religion had not first been decried, abused, and maligned, until it appeared to the multitude a very moral monster. From the sole of its foot,' like its divine founder, 'to the top of its head, there was no soundness in it;' it was buffeted, abused, spit upon; it was covered with a mantle of derision; it was scourged, and drenched with vinegar and gall; the water of affliction entered into its very soul; and it was, when thus disfigured by a clamorous rabble, and seemingly abandoned by God, that the bigots and the fanatic cried out to the agents of the law and the sword,-away with it, away with it.'"

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Having crucified it, they buried it, and esteemed it dead, but after a long sleep, it has risen, like its divine author, from the tomb: and God grant that the sower may again cast the good seed around! May he open rivers in the high hills, and fountains in the midst of the plains; may he turn the desert into pools of water, and the inpassa

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