TIME.

A BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT
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A BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT FROM FAULDING.


The following eloquent paper on Time, is, we
believe, from the pen Of Pau!ding:


| saw temple reared by the hands of men
standing with its pinnacle on the distant plain.


The storm beat upon it the God Of nature
hurled his thunderbolts against it, and yet it
stood firm as adamant. Revery was in its halls ;
the gay, the happy, the young, and the beautiful
were there. | returned, and lo the temple was
no more! Its high walls lay in scattered ruins /;
and at the midnight hour the owls lone cry ad-
ded to the deep solitude. The young and gay
who had reyeled there had passed away


saw child rejoicing in his youth the idol
OF his mother, and the pride of his father; re-
turned, and the child had become old. Trem-
bling with weight of years, he stood the last Of
the generation, stranger amidst the desolation
around him.


saw the oak standing with all its pride upon
the mountains; the birds were carolling in its
boughs; returned, and that oak was ealess
and sapless; the winds were playing at pastimes
thro' its branches.


/" Who is this destroyer?" said TO my guar
dian angel.


"It is time," said he. "When the morning
stars sang together with JOY over the new-made
world, he commenced his course and when he
shall have destroyed all that is beautiful of the
earth-plucked the sun from its sphere-yeiled
the moon in blood-yes, when lie shall have
rolled the heaven and earth away as scroll,
then shall an angel from the Throne of God
come forth, and with one foot on the sea and ono
on the land, lift up his hand toward Heavens
Eternal-and say, time was, time is, but time
shall DC no more Wheeling Times.