cheeks among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies."

Again. I know you greatly admire the same poet's "Ode to Napoleon." Do so; but admire also Isaiah's ode on the fall of Sennacherib, the Napoleon of Babylon; and observe too, that independent of a general resemblance throughout in point of structure, Lord Byron's first and finest stanza is altogether derived from the prophet.

""Tis past, but yesterday a king,

And armed with kings to strive,

And now,

thou art a nameless thing;

So abject, yet alive!

Is this the man of thousand thrones,

Who strewed our earth with hostile bones,
And can he thus survive?

Since he, miscalled the morning star,
No man, nor fiend, hath fallen so far."

"He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, is persecuted and none hindereth. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken nations! They that see thee shall narrowly

look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble; that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness ? "*

The chariot of Carmala in Southey's "Kehama," will remind you of Ezekiel's sublime vision of the wheels and cherubims: and the "winged hands, armless and bodiless," which bear the magic globe into the cave of Lori-. nite, will also remind you of the hand which brought the roll of a book to the prophet, and of the hands which he discerned beneath the wings of the cherubims.

The mantles

"White

As the swan's breast, and bright as mountain snow," in which Kailyal and Ladurlad are arrayed, as alone enabling them to pass the fiery flood which interposes between them and the throne of Yamen, will suggest to you the scripture metaphors of "the wedding garment," and the "fine linen, clean and white, which is the righteousness of the saints." In one of the prose passages of this fervent,

* Isaiah xiv.

and golden-hearted historian as well as poet, the crowning charm lies in a descriptive phrase which frequently occurs in the Bible.

As the soldiers were carrying him (Sir John Moore) slowly along, he made them frequently turn round, that he might see the field of battle, and listen to the firing, and he was well pleased when the sound grew fainter. A spring wagon came up, bearing Colonel Wynch, who was wounded: the Colonel asked who was in the blanket, and being told it was Sir John Moore, wished him to be placed in the wagon. Sir John asked one of the Highlanders whether he thought the wagon or the blanket was the best? and the man said, the blanket would not shake him so much, as he and the other soldiers would keep the step, and carry him easy. So they proceeded with him to his quarters, at Corunna, weeping as they went."

"And David went up by the ascent of Mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot : and all the people that was with him covered

* Southey's Peninsular War.

every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up." 2 Samuel xv. 30. Campbell's expression

"Her march is on the mountain wave,

Her home is on the deep; "

will remind you of the Psalmist's—“ Thy path is in the sea, and thy footsteps in the great deep." When a poet said that the Apollo Belvidere appears to have shot the arrow "less by an effort than a command," he expressed a noble idea, worthy the transcendent statue: but when Habakkuk says of the Holy One, "He stood—and measured the earth; he beheld-and drave asunder the nations," the sublime conception of power exercised by the mere movement of will, is carried to a height worthy the true and living God-the God of heaven! Young well expresses the same style of sentiment :

"Whose word was Nature's birth,

The shadow of whose hand is Nature's shield,
Her dissolution, his suspended smile.”

But the grand treasure-house for thoughts of this order, is the Old Testament: "Thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good; thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou

takest away their breath, they die and return to their dust; thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the earth. The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever; the Lord shall rejoice in his works. He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth the hills, and they smoke."*

Washington Irving says of the oak, that it "assimilates in the grandeur of its attributes to heroic and intellectual man; and is an emblem of what a nobleman should be-a refuge for the weak, a shelter for the oppressed, and a defence for the defenceless; warding off from them the peltings of the storm, or the scorching rays of arbitrary power."—A fine similitude, but not, surely, finer than the prophet's: "The tree that thou sawest, which grew and was strong; whose height reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the

* Psalm civ.