. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . graves Thou chainless, boundless, watery waste ! Whose tides will ebb and flowForever on, with vengeful haste, To lay mans triumphs low— Until an hour foretold shall come To stay thy surges roll,When earth and sea shall hear their doom Resound from pole to pole. Thou shalt, O Sea, give up thy dead, And all thy treasures rise the drowned from the rivers bed At sound of the cannons blast. Gods Angel with one foot on sea, And one on solid land,Shall swear time was, no more shall be, No longer time shall stand.
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . graves Thou chainless, boundless, watery waste ! Whose tides will ebb and flowForever on, with vengeful haste, To lay mans triumphs low— Until an hour foretold shall come To stay thy surges roll,When earth and sea shall hear their doom Resound from pole to pole. Thou shalt, O Sea, give up thy dead, And all thy treasures rise the drowned from the rivers bed At sound of the cannons blast. Gods Angel with one foot on sea, And one on solid land,Shall swear time was, no more shall be, No longer time shall stand. Thou to the soul of man shalt yield More lasting still than thou,And all thy mysteries stand revealedTo him who questions now. •xxviii—il «5hM ? ? ?-?-. t > 4^ ; :? M ; . jii&S&JfciLS. Ptr THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN NEWPORTBy Arthur B. Chase. HERE is nowhere else iuNew Hampshire, to-day, andprobably nowhere outside thethe state; a finer specimen ofthat strong, stately, impressive styleof church architecture, predomina-ting in the early part of the nowclosing century, sometimes desig-nated as the Colonial, but. moreproperly known as the Georgian,than is presented in the imposing oldbrick edifice on the easterly side ofSouth Main street, in the beautifulvillage of Newport, which the Con-gregational church and society ofthat town have occupied as a houseof worship for more than threequarters of a century. Althoughnot a house set on a hill, it isthe most noticeable building in thevillage, which is b}7 no means desti-tute of handsome structures ; and, inapproaching from a distance, itsstately spire is the first object at-tracting the eye. The exterior ofthis eld church has indeed com-mended the admiration of all whohave seen it; while for three suc-ceeding generations
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