15. "Its Purgatory song."-St. 3.

"The Purgatory of Suicides," a poem, by Thomas Cooper,

the Chartist.

16. "Like Humboldt's Cosmos

Or Mahomet's Religion."-St. 8.

Alike in this, that they are both human-yet both aiming at divine results;-the one a spiritual, the other a physical creation.

17. "Of Jervis ask-or Jelf."-St. 21.

See "Five Discourses on Subjects contained in the Book of Genesis," by the Rev. J. Jervis; the learned author of which contends for the legitimacy of Mahomet's mission. As to Dr. Jelf, I wish, in common with all who know him, that he may soon be made a Bishop!

18. "Yet, in the midst of all, are holy Prayers,

That, like the Lark, soar upward from the ground."

St. 45.

These lines cannot fail to remind the reader of the following beautiful passage in the works of the divinely eloquent Dr. Jeremy Taylor. "Anger is a perfect alienation of the mind from prayer, and therefore is contrary to that attention, which presents our prayers in a right line to God. For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of

man;

his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over, and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned musick and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministeries here below: so is the prayer of a good when his affairs have required business, and his business was matter of discipline, and his discipline was to pass upon a sinning person, or had a design of charity, his duty met with infirmities of a man, and anger was its instrument, and the instrument became stronger than the prime agent, and raised a tempest and overruled the man; and then his prayer was broken, and his thoughts were troubled, and his words went up towards a cloud, and his thoughts pulled them back again, and made them without intention; and the good man sighs for his infirmity, but must be content to lose the prayer, and he must recover it, when his anger is removed, and his spirit is becalmed, made even as the brow of Jesus, and smooth like the heart of God; and then it ascends to heaven upon the wings of the holy dove, and dwells with God, till it returns like the useful bee, laden with a blessing and the dew of heaven."

19. Each ordered orb, in Heaven,

Some crowned Saint controls."-Requiem, v. 2. This notion is peculiarly Florentine, being that adopted by Dante as the theory of the third part of his Divina Commedia. He places paradise-where? In the Planets-the Moon-Mercury-Venus-the Sun-Mars- Jupiter and Saturn-also in the constellation, Gemini, &c. But, alas, he forgot his maternal planet, Earth! Would it not have been possible to have planted some realm of paradise-some kingdom of heaventhere, also? Ah! Dante!

PART II.

FIORANTE,

OR

THE BRIDAL EVE.

THE

FIORANTE,

OR

BRIDAL EVE.

IN Florence, that sweet city of Italy,

Dwelt a young maiden past description fair : Her figure tall and graceful-and her eye

Was bright and azure as the skies are there !—

In short, her beauty was so wondrous rare,

She was a marvel to all passers bye!

Her name was Fiorante: rich and good:-
The Count Rigondi was her lover; he
(So it was rumoured in the neighbourhood)
Was on the brink of his felicity!

He truly loved her to idolatry :

And her fond ear to early marriage wooed.