"God with his great power defend thee! Christ with his great love attend thee! May the blessed Spirit lend thee Strength to bear, and all needful succour send thee!" Close we here. My eyes behold, As upon a sculpture old, Life all warm and Death all cold Struggling which alone shall hold-- Sign of wo, or sign of hope!-- To his lips the Stethoscope. But the strife at length is past, They have made a truce at last, And the settling die is cast. Life shall sometimes sound a blast, But it shall be but "Tantivy," Like a hurrying war reveillie, Or the hasty notes that levy Eager horse, and man, and hound, On an autumn morn, When the sheaves are off the ground, And the echoing bugle-horn Sends them racing o'er the scanty stubble corn. But when I a-hunting go, I, King Death, I that funeral trump shall blow With no bated breath. Long drawn out, and deep and slow Shall the wailing music go; Winding horn shall presage meet Be of coming winding-sheet, And all living men shall know That beyond the gates of gloom, In my mansions of the tomb, I for every one keep room, And shall hold and house them all, till the very Day of Doom. V. V. EPIGRAMS. Bait, hook, and hair, are used by angler fine; Emma's bright hair alone were bait, hook, line. * * * * * Faraday was the first to elicit the electric spark from the magnet; he found that it is visible at the instants of breaking and of renewing the contact of the conducting wires; and _only then_. Around the magnet, Faraday Is sure that Volta's lightnings play; But _how_ to draw them from the wire? He took a lesson from the heart: 'Tis when we meet, 'tis when we part, Breaks forth the electric fire. M. LETTERS ON THE TRUTHS CONTAINED IN POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. 1.--THE DIVINING ROD. _February_, 1847.