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132 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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the writers ; and no _delight at their own ideas has led them into the fatal error of disregarding howand in what formit is conveyed .
, , The volume of poems by the author of " The Patience of Hope' * contains many very pretty verses andhere and theresome lines
, , that linger in one ' s memory as familiar thoughts happily putsuch
as" Moments make Creeps Their way lagg to ing hours onas , as if slowl before y day them by lay day
, Some evil thing they feared to overtake ; " and ,
" Our waking hours write hitter things Against us on Life ' s wall ; 13 ut And Sleep draws her it small throug soft h them finger all brings ;" ,
and , " So dotli life—our field
The Redeemed treasure for hid us— within but slowl it 1 " y , slowly yield and ,
" So The sp meaning ake she fervent of one golden : ' I have word learned that shines by knocking above it at — Heaven " Wait ' s gat " e But For with only to the abide Master His whom Will , to " _Weul serve is _waiteid not to ride is well or run done , . " '"
The following is a good specimen of the author : — " WHEN THE NIGHT AND MORNING MEET .
" _Iisr Into the dark a world and of narrow street , Where the tread of woe many , feet
A Went child tramp was ling born to —speak and fro low , ! When the night and morning meet .
" Full seventy summers back The Was feet this that ; so wore long the ago track ,
Yet Are hath lying there strai been ght no and lack low , — Of passers to and fro .
" Within the narrow street Beyond This childhood the narrow ever street played ;
Anear This This the manhood age tramp sat still ling never and feet strayed prayed . ;
" Tlie tread of ceaseless feet By Flowed waters' throug fallor h fleet his life , unstirred
Wind music , , or the bird
Of But morn they , —these were sounds still unh are eard sweet . ,
132 NOTICES OF BOOKS .