Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . ondly pondered oerForever lost the hues they wore!How like a death-bell, sad and slow,Tolls through the soul one year ago! Where is the face we loved to greet,The form that graced the fireside seat,The gentle smile, the winning way,That blessd our life-path day by day?Where fled those accents, soft and thrilled our hearts one year ago? Ah! vacant is the fireside smile that won no longer there;From door and hall, from porch and lawn I The echo of that voice is gone;And we who linger only knowHow much was lost one
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . ondly pondered oerForever lost the hues they wore!How like a death-bell, sad and slow,Tolls through the soul one year ago! Where is the face we loved to greet,The form that graced the fireside seat,The gentle smile, the winning way,That blessd our life-path day by day?Where fled those accents, soft and thrilled our hearts one year ago? Ah! vacant is the fireside smile that won no longer there;From door and hall, from porch and lawn I The echo of that voice is gone;And we who linger only knowHow much was lost one year ago! Beside her grave the marble whiteKeeps silent guard by day and night;Serene she sleeps, nor heeds the treadOf footsteps oer her lowly bed;Her pulseless breast no more may knowThe pangs of life one year ago. But why repine? A few more years,A few more broken sighs and we, enlisted with the dead,Shall follow where her steps have led;To that far world rejoicing goTo which she passed one year ago! C. C. Cox. 20 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY 1.—VIEW OF nOPETON WOEKS, OHIO. ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. BY E. G. SQUIER. [Seconti ^aper.] IN a preceding article I have given a generaland rapid outline of the ancient monumentsof the Mississippi Valley, from which it -will beseen that they resolve themselves into severalwell-defined classes, which should be treated ofin the oi-der of their importance and depend-ence. To this end the following classificationwill probably prove sufficiently exact and con-venient : I. Inclosures for Sacred Sepulchral Sacred, Altar, or Temple Animal-shaped Mounds of Implements and Ornaments. In the present paper I shall treat of the firsttwo of the above classes, leaving the other for asubsequent and concluding article. I. INCLOSURES FOR DEFENSE.[Often of vast size; occupying elevated, commanding,or defensible positions; irregular in o
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