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mont stared her full in the face at the very instart when expectation stood on tiptoe, the idol of her heart eluded her grasp. The blow was too severe. Her well poised mind lost its balance - confusion usurped the throne ot reason. That elegant fabric, rent from it's foundatior fell need not repeat her present condition, nor how the frantic soul raves round its tabernacle of clay" and walls in doleful unison with Do cember's cheerless blast. The very soul sickens at the recital-let naueht be added save that that mind, once another name for excellence, has been prostrated-it now lies pile of mouder- ing ruins the sumblimity of which can be conceived but cannot be described. But go one step farther penetrate the msts of darkness which envelope this world of ours Traverse the boundless plains of in- tellect Gaze in silent wonder upon the length and breadth and heighth of Deity Cast thine eyes be- neath-n long searching look, peer into that prison house of the universe. Catch one glimpse of that mental structure whose base is fixed deep down in caves of torment, whose sides are lashed by the waves of eternal wo, and OCT whose top immense clouds of gloom perpetual brood in dreadful gran deur. While the livid ightnings leap with fearful rapdity athwart the surrounding darkness seize one view of those surges of living anguish, which, com mencing with the shores of Time spend their fury only on the coasts of Eternity. Reflect that those were once an integral part of that Divinity at whose immensity thou hast just been overwhelmed, and then say whether there be not grandeur in the ruins of mind As far as eternity is more lasting than time--as far as immortality is more durable than mortality - as far as mind is superior to matter, so far does the awful sublimity of the ruin of mind ex- cesd that of the ruins of matter. ZoA

 Plainvle, G. Dec. l2, l842.