Near the house in which Seraphael died, and rising as from the ashes of his tomb, is another house which holds his name, and will ever hold it to be immortal. Sons and daughters of his own are there,--of his land, his race, his genius,--those whom music has "called" and "chosen" from the children of humanity. The grandeur of the institution, its stupendous scale, its intention, its consummation, afford, to the imagination that enshrines him, the only monument that would not insult his name. Nor is that temple without its priestess, that altar without its angel. She who devoted the wealth of his wisdom to that work gave up the treasure of her life besides, and has consecrated herself to its superintendence. At the monumental school she would be adored, but that she is too much loved as children love,--too much at home there to be feared. I hold her as my passion forever; she makes my old years young in memory, and to every new morning of my life her name is Music. With another name--not dearer, but as dear--she is indissolubly connected; and if I preserve my heart's first purity, it is to them I owe it. I write no more. Had I desired to treat of music specifically, I should not have written at all; for that theme demands a tongue beyond the tongues of men and angels,--a voice that is no more heard. But if one faithful spirit find an echo in my expression, to his beating heart for music, his inward song of praise, it is not in vain that I write, that what I have written is written. CHARLES AUCHESTER. FOOTNOTE: [10] Sterndale Bennett married Mary Anne, daughter of Captain James Wood, R. N. THE END. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Charles Auchester, Volume 2 (of 2), by Elizabeth Sheppard