The warbling of a thousand rills which through the green fields roam,

The honied tones of love and hope-the voice of bliss and home.

The scene grew brighter, when a form rose on my wondering sight,

Descending slowly from above, clothed in the robes of light,

A shadowy thing all beautiful-of loveliness supreme,

A form of fancy's weaving wild-a Poet's airy dream.

She smiled! and then the very earth grew bright with living bliss,

And Nature's choir burst forth in song her gladness to express,

The Spheres were touched with melody as deep as that which rung,

Through all the morning stars, when fresh the Earth to being sprung.

And then she said, "Be happy," while she raised her lovely hand,

And pointed upwards to the sky-a brighter, better, land;

Then vanished like a passing thought, or gleam of northern light,

And o'er the lovely scene were spread, the shadows of the night.

O'twas a glimpse of heaven itself, which God in mercy gave,

To make her look with pleasure on the cold and gloomy grave,

And I felt the "peace of Jesus" steal thro' all my happy frame,

Far sweeter than the fleeting bliss of noblest earthly fame.

The dim realities of life broke on my sight again, And Memory from her mystic cell, recalled her gloomy train;

Yet mingled with the rosy rays of never-ending peace,

And softened down to pensive thought which bade my sorrows cease.

And all this dark and tearful vale was clothed with smiles of love,

Though the eye was turned beyond it, to my Father's home above,

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While the grave appear'd a downy couch, on which to lean the breast,

"Where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest!"

THE

DOOM OF THE SLAVE TRADE.

BUT a short time ago, the abettors of Negro Slavery were used to argue the impropriety of affording emancipation to the Slaves, on the ground of their incapacity for moral improvement, and their deep degradation of character. This argument, however, is of late abandoned; the possibility of their mo ral cultivation is not only acknowledged, but actually prosecuted by dignitaries of the lawnsleeve; and the most extravagant eulogiums are now as unblushingly put forth, as to both the mental and physical perfections of the

Slaves, as though no such opinion as the former had ever been broached. They, who a few years since, were stated to be unworthy of freedom, are now represented as being too good and too happy to require it;-they who, before, needed their chains to keep them in subjection, as beings devoid of all principle, are now so enlightened and so correct in their conduct, as to outvie, in these particulars, the peasantry of His Majesty's three kingdoms. "It is a fact," say the planters and their friends "too glaring to be denied, that the situation of the Negro is infinitely superior to that of the agricultural and manufacturing labourer of this country." "The children in the Negro schools need not shrink from a comparison with those of similar institutions in the mother country." "All, both young and old, shew the greatest anxiety to read, and are remarkably quick and intelligent:""They are equally, if not better informed upon the nature of the institution of the Lord's Supper, than are communicants in England;" "And they arein the enjoyment of far greater temporal com