EUTHANASY.

'Hawthorne had often expressed the hope that he might die in his sleep and unawares. And it was according to his wish that the end came to him."Biography of Hawthorne.

OT through the gate of Pain

NOT

Would I pass into heavenNot with its earthly stain,

And brow all anguish-riven.

Friend, in that solemn hour,

Calm thou the senses' riot With some sweet draught of power,

And let me pass in quiet.

Ah! happy he who lies

All calmly down at even, And sees the morning rise

Upon the hills of heaven.
Blessed is sudden death

When man has closed his story
And longs for fuller breath
Upon the heights of glory.

O Father, in that hour,

Though hand and brain betray me, Uphold me with thy power,

Nor let the change dismay me.

Strengthen me with thy might
To tread Death's darksome portal

Until I see heaven's light

AFFI

Glow on the shores immortal.

HENRY PETERSON.

AFFLICTION.

FFLICTION is the wholesome soil of virtue

Where patience, honor, sweet humanity, Calm fortitude, take root and strongly flour

EDMON is considered the earliest of the English poets. He was a man sprung from the people, and at one time in his life was a mere cowherd. He was, however, addressed one night by a stranger, as he thought, in his sleep, and asked to sing a song. He replied that he could not, when the stranger urged that he could, and that he could sing the "Creation." Cadmon then, wondering at himself, began to sing most beautiful verses. He soon afterward awoke, and went immediately to the reeve of Whitby, who, wise and good man that he was, took him to the abbey and told the wondrous story to the abbess Hilda. He recounted the last night's adventure and repeated the verses, which at once obtained the admiration of the persons present. They then explained to him other parts of Holy Scripture, whereupon he went home and produced a beautiful poem. At the request of the abbess he became a monk, and continued to write poems founded on sacred history.

There is a striking resemblance between Cadmon's account of "The Fall of Man," etc., and portions of Milton's "Paradise Lost." Conybeare, in his Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, says: "The pride, rebellion and punishment of Satan and his princes have a resemblance to Milton so remarkable that most of this portion might be almost literally translated by a cento

SATAN'S SPEECH. ATAN harangued, Sorrowing spake,

SAT

He who hell henceforth
Should rule,

Govern the abyss.

He was erst God's angel,
Fair in heaven,

Until him his mind urged,
And his pride
Most of all,

That he would not
The Lord of hosts'
Word revere.
Boiled within him

His thought about his heart,
Hot was without him
His dire punishment,

S. (). BEETON.

Then spake he the words: "This narrow place is most unlike That other that we ere knew, High in heaven's kingdom, Which my Master bestowed on me, Though we it, for the All-powerful, May not possess,

Must cede our realm.

Yet hath he not done rightly,
That he hath struck us down
To the fiery abyss
Of the hot hell,

Grim, bottomless;

God hath us himself

Swept into these swart mists,

Thus he cannot us accuse of any sin
That we against him in the land framed evil;
Yet hath he deprived us of the light,
Cast us into the greatest of all torments:
We may not for this execute vengeance,
Reward him with aught of hostility,
Because he hath bereft us of the light.
He hath now devised a world
Where he hath wrought man
After his own likeness,

With whom he will repeople

The kingdom of heaven with pure souls;
Therefore must we strive zealously

That we on Adam, if we ever may,

And likewise on his offspring, our wrongs

repair,

Corrupt him there in his will,

If we may it in any way devise.

Now I have no confidence farther in this

bright state,

That which he seems long destined to enjoy, That bliss with his angel's power.

We cannot that ever obtain,

That we the mighty God's mind weaken; Let us avert it now from the children of men, That heavenly kingdom now we may not

have it;

Let us so do that they forfeit his favor,

And we are hither cast
Into this deep den.

Now with the Lord are they
Far higher in esteem,

And may for themselves that weal possess
That we in heaven's kingdom