So should all speak: so reason speaks in all. From the soft whispers of that God in man; Why fly to folly, why to frenzy fly For rescue from the blessings we possess? Time, the supreme! Time is eternity; Pregnant with all eternity can give.' THE PEARL DIVER. I Go to risk, for a muscle's shell, To take the life in his quiet cell, I plunge to the gates of death. I sink, to snatch from his ocean bed, While the billows roll over mine. I take my breast, with its vital spark, Το grope for gems, in the fearful dark, To kindle the eye of pride. The casket spared, with its tender clasp, By the monsters that roam the sea, Must yield to the ruthless human grasp, Thou peaceful child of a noisy deep! Thou must bid thy home farewell, Or he who dives will sleep the sleep Of death, for a muscle's shell. But the goodly pearl that the merchant bought, Is a purer one than will e'er be brought "T will still be bright, when the forms that wore The treasures I sought to-day, With their beauty and wealth, to be seen no more, Have faded and passed away. Its lustre will far outlast the sight Of every mortal eye! When the sun and the stars have lost their light, "Twill shine in the upper sky! It will not fret while the spheres revolve, It will not melt, though the heavens dissolve, And those who are wise, and seek to know They never will ask me, thus, to throw NEWBURYPORT. H. F. G. THE HEART IS FIXED. Heb. xii. 1. THE heart is fixed, and fixed the eye, And I am girded for the race: The Lord is strong, and I rely On his assisting grace. Race for the swift-it must be run, And I have tarried longer now Who hope to pluck the fruit which grows с |