... TO A SLEEPING CHILD. Art thing mortal birth, AV hose happy on,c IS on 1 ? Docs human blood with life embne Those heavenly viens heavenly blue That stray along thy forehead fair, Lost 'mid a gleam of golden hair ? Oh ! can that light and airy breath Steal ...

... deaily loved—we mourn her not, Death was her second birth. Well—drop one mortal tear of grief- She was not of this cart' To our swollen hearts 'twill give relief, But let the mortal pang be brief— And hail her heavenly birth. Dark is our world—no home of ...

... maid— Her people's love the brightest gem That decks her virgin diadem. Glad—as his note whose joyous wing The tiding bears of infant spring ; Soft—as the leaves that haste greet. And twine around his airy feet; Pure—as the liquid drops that dwell in the « ...

... accounts deaths yesterday vary from between 1000 and 1,500, and to-day, they say, worse than any. April 15.— Accounts of mortality vesterday'atil! more alarming : 1800 deaths the city. There was great danger of the bodies being left in* the houses and ...

... heaven, and heaven's God adoring And who can tell what visions high May bless an infant's sleeping eye ? What brighter throne can brightness find To reign on than infant's mind, Ere sin destroy'd, error difn, The glory of the Setaphih ? ABSENCE! —On Monday ...

... outbalance right, And justice crouch to might. Earth’s life is wrapt in selfishness: but Death, Who stays the giant’s as the infant’s breath,— Death the all tranquillizing,—brings a balm To heal deep wounds: he hath a spell to calm Revenge :—the living war ...

... minute— Many are splendidly dancing along; What istbere not emblematical it? Myriads suddenly burst the throng. This busy Mortal's the fate thy glory. This the end being like thine— And, like the air from the bubbles before ye, Bursteth thy soul from ...

... between two parties who disputed about the identity of a of mortality, from which the vital spark had long departed. It appeared that a short time before the wife of a man was about to off this mortal coil,” and requested that she might be buried in a cemetry ...

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... conviction of its powerto assuage maternal paiu for infant suffering to coi vert that pain into gladness ; that suffering into balmy repose. As preventive'against, am) a curt for muse complaint* to which Infants are liable, as Affections of the Bowels, difficult ...

... panting breast. The child, the mother, by her infant legal murder's sanction'd stroke they fall. And flames and blind destruction swallow all. Nor helpless age protects, nor female fear, £*ea lisping infants quiver the spear. Can beav'u be cruel ?—cease ...

... anofiending infants (the one, two years old, and the ether three), merely because a few persons had not to do for them, what, in the nature of things, itis improhable, nav, impossible they ever would, or could have petformed! One of these infants was silently ...