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a hope that she would recede from her
and return to the world; to the
bosom of her parents, and the embraces
Of society. But these hopes have all van
ished: about a fortnight since she went
through the ceremony of taking the olack
veil, and has abjured the world, society,
and all the kindlier feelings Of our nature,
to seek within the solitary limits OF mo-
nastic cell, those devotional enjoyments
which society denied her.


1t was said that though it was her choice
to take an everlasting farewell OF the world,
yet she betrayed those feelings which rell-
gious zeal cannot suppress, and which vent
themselves, and relieve a bursting heart.
AS she gave the holy vow, her bosom was
convulsed with ten thousand thross, for her
heart yet fingered upon the world.


" Her hands were clasp'd her eyes upturn'd,


Dropping their tears like moonlight rain;


And though her lips, fond raver burnd
With words of passion words OF flame
Yet was there light around her brow,


A holiness in those dark eyes,


Which show'd though wandering earthuardnow,
Her spirits home was in the SKIES
There must be an alienation of mind, a
kind of religious madness, pervades the soul,
that can in the bloom of life-when SUR
rounded by the joys If the world, the love
of friends, and the idolatry Of society-tear
itself from the ties of nature, and give up all,
to worship the Creator Of Mankind. Yet
here we find young girl, used to the high
est circles of society-the daughter OF a man
who holds pre- e.eminent rank among the


nobest captains of the age-the daughter OF


man who had it in his power to secure to
| his offspring the most desirable situation in


Extraordinarily retiring to the clolster, to


offer unccasing orisons to the Lord of Hosts
| What motives, other than those purely
devotional, impelled her to this course, have


not yet been made known, and the world is


left to wonder, that one SO young, SO lovely


and SO good, should in moment of enthu-


siasm desert the world, and blast the hopes


of parents and friends, by retiring 10 the ST.
| lent cell of an anchorite.