. The book of similitudes: . breast. ******Hail Memory, hail! in thy exhaustless mine,From age to age unnumbered treasures shine!Thought, and her shadowy brood, thy call obey,And place and time are subject to thy sway!Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone ;The only pleasures we can call her than air, Hopes summer visions die,If but a fleeting cloud obscure the but a beam of sober reason play,So Fancys fairy frost-work melts away!But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power,Snatch the rich relics of a well spent hour ?These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight,Pou
. The book of similitudes: . breast. ******Hail Memory, hail! in thy exhaustless mine,From age to age unnumbered treasures shine!Thought, and her shadowy brood, thy call obey,And place and time are subject to thy sway!Thy pleasures most we feel when most alone ;The only pleasures we can call her than air, Hopes summer visions die,If but a fleeting cloud obscure the but a beam of sober reason play,So Fancys fairy frost-work melts away!But can the wiles of art, the grasp of power,Snatch the rich relics of a well spent hour ?These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight,Pour round her path a stream of living light;And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest,Where virtue triumphs, and her sons are blest! Quick as their thoughts their joys come on, But fly not half so swift away ;Their souls are ever bright as noon, And calm as summer evenings day glides swiftly oer their heads, Made up of innocence and love ;And soft and silent as the shades, Their mighty minutes move. SIMILITUDES. 39. There is no peace sailk my God to the wicked. Isa. lvii, 21. Tribulationand anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil. Rom. ii, 9. THE MEMORY OF WICKEDNESS. Dark is the scene which meets the troubled gazeOf the old man who squanders lifes best sees the pictures of the hours misspent,With disobedience, sin and folly mothers warning voice, unheard in youth ;Trampled beneath his feet Gods word of house neglected, then in angry fight,Squanders his days and riotous his nights ;Then later still, the suffering and the poorTurned with revilings from the rich mans door. 40 THE BOOK OF Pictures like these must meet the sinners eyes,Naught left to stain the scene with darker like these must make his old age drear;Eo hope beyond his guilty soul to cheer. The engraving annexed represents a wicked orunrighteous man, who unwillingly has the remem-brance of his crimes brought before his mind. Heis evidently ill at ease, which
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