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MISS MARY MURDOCH ELLIOTT.


BY J. AUGUSTUS SHEA.
/ DREAMED last nigh; an Angel came 10 NE
With smiles OF holiness and looks of love,
Where truth and beauty and tranquility,


Such rs the Gospel tells us dwell above,
Were shining with a;spendor softly bright,
That fascinates aud soothes III undazzied sight.
The face was such as seldom we behold,
And then in childhood childhood fair,
When rosy health and beauty, both, enfold
Lips, cheeks and eyes in magic atmosphere.
Sublimed by pure in,elligence-the mind
Encirclipg them-ss precious things enshrined.
Methought we'll remembered | bad heard
OF fair child, whose life, two sumners's long,
Was like the visit Of some beauteous bird
That 6lls the woodland with SURPRISING song
But while we listen, raptured with its iay,
Expands its wings Of light and hies away.
Words far more faithful than the Painters skill
Had pictured her 10 me-her soul, intense
With innate knowledge, waiting on her will,
Looking or speaking its intelligence
Her brow like moonIt marble when the air
Declines mid heavon and earth one cloud 10 bear
Her cheeks like spring-time roses looking out
From alabaster vases, and her mouth
Lovely alike in smiles or playful pout,


And eyes like starlight in the sparkling South,
And hair that caught in wandering ringe,s bright,
And gave, while ii reflected, life to Light
All these well remembered in that dream
And, gazing on the Angels face thought
That Memory, smile by smile and beam by beam,
The features Of the child before me brought,
And my mind felt I was shs-the young and fair,
Whom words, with breathing truth, had pictured


there.


Now, in nay waking faith that such things are
That children like that child are only given
To be TO US as Bsthlehem's guiding star
A promise and monitor from Heaven
cauno, waive the truth that il was she,
Who in that dream last night appeared to me.