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The following verses are founded on ar
incident happily ske'ched in the Freeman:
Journal. The cruciiic is now in the pos.
session Of Mr.. Lester.


Within garrett al Genoa,
'pi Full many year ween,
Had lain block ofivory, .l
The largest ever seen. rsl
If we may trust traditions tongue


Some mastadon before, ......t
The wave kissed tall Ararat's peak,


The splendid trophy wore.
A monk obtained, and to his cell


The relick rare conveyed,
And bending o'er the uncouth block,


This monk, coamuning said:
s'Though now witness to the wrath


OF the dread God above,



Changed by my chisel, it shall be


The emblem of his love-"
That night when on his pallet stretched,


As slumbers o'cr him stole,
A glorious vision brightly broke


Upon his ravished soul. ,-
He sees his Savior's bruised check


With plying tears impearled,
He hears his dying accents bless


A prosecuting world. .tr.
The maln bell hath pealed, the monk


Starts from his brief repose;
But still before his waking eye


The vivid dream arose.


HIS morning orisors are paid,


His hand the chisel Yields; -o--..-l
Slowly, before the eager steel,


The stubborn ivory yields.
The sun arose, the sun went down,


Arose and set again, .7@7
But still the monk his chisel plies:


o must he toll in vain? ses aH
Four years elapsed before the monk


Threw his worn chisel by;
His task performed, before him lies


The speaking ivory.
His dream, at last, is bodied forth,


And to the world is given s,.
A sight that we'll may wean the soul,


From earth awhile to heaven.


M.


>~~~--------->.~ -~---1------ r el
There is jealous temperance man il
Ohio, who goes about with a'sledge ham
mer, and beats in the heads of all the bar
rels ofspirits he can find, emptying th'
contents, and then seeks the owner, ant
"pays up" -t..s-,a
We heard a chap trying to "spout'
Cowper, the other day. He com
menced. Oh for lodge in some vas
7pidozp's nsst.