The Metropolitan : a monthly magazine, devoted to religion, education, literature, and general information . le cell of the Poor Clares, or of the Poor Capuchinesses. From everytown that enjoys the happiness of containing one, there arises, as it were, a sweetperfume which rejoices the heavens and embalms the earth. THE NUN. All the glory of the Kings daughter is within.—Ps. xliv, 14. Tou lovely, dewy, half-blown rose! Who meetst the face of day,With modest smile; more prized than those Who waste their sweets away;Bloom on! your safeguard ever green, Your purity still new;In glorys sunshine wi
The Metropolitan : a monthly magazine, devoted to religion, education, literature, and general information . le cell of the Poor Clares, or of the Poor Capuchinesses. From everytown that enjoys the happiness of containing one, there arises, as it were, a sweetperfume which rejoices the heavens and embalms the earth. THE NUN. All the glory of the Kings daughter is within.—Ps. xliv, 14. Tou lovely, dewy, half-blown rose! Who meetst the face of day,With modest smile; more prized than those Who waste their sweets away;Bloom on! your safeguard ever green, Your purity still new;In glorys sunshine will be seen The beauty hid in you. They say that Eden is no more, Or hid from mortal eyes;That earth is all a desert oer, Compared with Paradise:But where thou art, there Eden is, With heaven reflected there,The deserts cheering oasis, Lest pilgrims should despair. Thy parent stem, with mystic rose, God promised to the world,Through Eve and Adam stcepd in woes, When from the garden new more beauteous Paradise, By faith appears in view;And blooming oer the earth arise Such lovely flowers as DKOGHEDA. Few places in Ireland possess to the mind of the stranger, a higher degree ofinterest than Drogheda—a town or city rich in historical associations, and rne-morahle as the scene of a massacre scarcely equalled for atrocity in the wholehistory of human depravity. Drogheda is situated on the river Boyne, which passes through it, and possessesmany advantages for commerce. At a very early period it was a fortified town,and even in the fourteenth century it had attained lo considerable commercialimportance. But until the year 1G41—the year after the famous rebellion—itsannals contain few records of striking interest. At this period, however, whilein the occupation of the royal arrny, under the command of Sir Henry Tichborne,it became distinguished for a successfijl defence against the Irish forces under thecommand of Sir Phelim ONeil. But a far more fearful and disast
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