mind may dwell with surpassing admiration."— Wiseman's Lectures on Connexion between Science and revealed Religion, vol. ii. page 142.

P. 87, 1. 11, 12.

The soul's emotions more and more shall be

Heighten'd.

"The affections of the Spirit, and their power of intimate Communion with the Infinite Spirit, not only raise the mind immeasurably above the level of the visible world, and carry it clear of the fate of that world; but raise it even above the range of the merely intellectual faculties, so that a state may be conceived far better and higher than that of the highest exercise of reason."-Physical Theory of another World, page 293.

A VISION.

A VISION.

(ALLEGORICAL.)

I.

LEGIONS of splendours there I saw, as stars

Numberless, bright'ning o'er a river clear,

Winnowing the air unruffled; din of wars
They know not, nor approaching tempests fear;

But endless songs of joy and triumph hear.

And each, distinctly beautiful, at will

In various hues, as fancy prompts, appear;

Gay as the flowers that with their fragrance fill,

Above the sun-bright stream, the air so mild, so still.

II.

Action, with them, swift follows thought, and thought

Is almost intuition; and awake

Their senses are, with strength co-equal fraught,

All in one instant: thus the orbèd lake

Reflects gilt clouds, green mountains, bush and brake:

And, as phenomena magnetic change

Their forms, still varying with the hues they take,

They through the light-impurpled ether range,

Glittering like blazonry of arms, rich in devices

strange.

III.

The river windeth on through vales immense,

Where "myriad-minded" beings ever reap

Harvests of knowledge, with delight intense;
These in their memories they treasured keep:

(Not, such as ours is, an ill-sorted heap),