...ruin runs. And, first, thy youth. What says it to grey hairs ? NARCISSA, I'm become thy pupil now — Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. Time on this head has snow'd ; yet still 'tis borne Aloft ; nor thinks but on another's grave. Cover'd...

...velvet coffin so often described to me, as enclosing the remains of the once beautiful Elizabeth ! " Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven !" This young lady, I am informed, had been for some months in a lingering decline, from the effects...

...brief delay. had been so long suspended, fell, and her gentle spirit " returned unto God who gave it." Early, bright, transient, chaste — as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. (Young, Night v.) Another touch or two of the pencil, and I have done. To her extraordinary charms...

...runs. And, first, Lhy youth : what says it to grey hairs ? Narcissa, I'm become thy pupil now, — Early, bright^ transient, chaste, as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heav'n. Time on, this head has suow'd, yet still 'tis borne Aloft, nor thinks but on another's grave....

...come from heaven." " Irrationals all sorrow are beneath, That noble gift ! that privilege to man.'* " Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven." " Like damaged clocks, whose hand and hell dissent, folly rings six while nature points at twelve."...

...and the astronomy of the second, are swallowed up by the presumption and false doctrine of both. " Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and weut to heaven." And again : "Elizabetha, Dorothea, et Gulielmus, E— et A — uxoris ejus liberi,...

...ruin runs. And, first, thy youth : what says it to gray hairs? Narcissa! I'm become thy pupil now. — Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven ! Time on this head has snow'd, yet still 'tis borne Aloft, nor thinks but on another's grave. Cover'd...

...hopes, her happiness, and her world were concentrated. 104 MY SISTER DEAR. BY JOHN S. CLARK, ESQ. " Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and flew to hiMv'n." Young. There is a spot, a stilly spot, That seems to sleep alone, forgot ; No kindred...

...the promise of an abundant harvest. But our thoughts are not as the thoughts of Him who made us. -' Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and rose to heaven." THE HAREBELL. In Spring's green lap there blooms a flower, Whose cup imbibes each...

...contrasts this with the permanence of his own grief for the loss of " Narcissa," of whom he says, " Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven." " We stand, as in a battle, throngs on throngs Around us falling, wounded oft ourselves ; Though bleeding...