
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACTS.
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saw the temple reared by the hands of
men, standing with its high pnnacles in
the distant plain. The storms beat upon
1.-THE God of nture hurled his thunder
bolts against it; and yet it stood as firm as
adamant Revelry was in its hall--thega
the happy, the young, and the beautiful
were there. | returned-and the temple
was no more its high walls lay in scat
tered ruins, moss and wild grass grew wild
ly there-and at the midnighthour the OWLS
cry added TO the deep solitude-the young
and the gay who reveled there had passed
away. E


saw child rejoicing in his youth-the
idol Of his mother and the pride of his fa-
ther. Ireturned, and the child had become
old. Trembling with the weight of years,
he stood the last of his generation--a stran-
ger amidst the desolatiols around him


| saw the old oak stand IN all its pride on
the mountain-the birds were carrolling on
its boughs. ] returned, the oak was leaf
less and sapless-the winds were playing at
its pastime through its branches.


"Who is the destroyer % said to my
guardian angel


1t is lime, said he, "when the morn
ing stars sang together with JOY, over the
new made world, he commenced his course
and when he shall have destroyed all that
is beautiful on earth-plucked the sun from
its sphere-veiled the moon in blood--yea,
when he shall have rolled the heavens and
earth away as scroll, then shall an angel
from the throne of God come forth, and
with one foot on the sea, and one on the
land, lift up his head towards Heaven, and
swear. by Heavens eternal" Time il,
time was, but time shall be no longer."--
Pau1ding.