But Oh! there is a better state, Where hopes unfading bloom, There is a brighter land that gleams Across the darken’d tomb. There may we meet, in that blest home, Where none shall sigh with pain, Where hours of parting never come, Now human frailties stain. M TALLMADGE Bantam! dear lake! how calm thy waters lie! How brightly green, thy sunny banks arise; Calm as the hours of childhood, sported there: And bright as life appear’d to youthful ken: No storm disturbs thy glassy surface clear; Reflecting still the plane trees broad bright leaf, Or oak with dark green crown; or gayer green The corn send forth in sunny hours; Sometimes A tall bare pine, its foliage sent Upon thy wave, like disappointments hue, Amid the brighter green of joy & hope— And yet clear, placid lake! thou art the same As when within thy cooling wave I swam, In childhoods hour — — — — — — Thou art the same ’Tis man alone is chang’d— Altamah. MR. BRACE [Illustration: PL. XLVIII.—LOVE’S FALL By George Catlin, in Mary Peck’s Album ] THE RULES OF LITCHFIELD ACADEMY. 1825— From the copy made by a pupil, Charlotte Phelps, who married George D. Cowles, of Farmington. 1st. You are expected to rise early, be dressed neatly and to exercise before breakfast. You are to retire to rest when the family in which you reside request you. You must consider it a breach of politeness to be requested a second time to rise in the morning or retire of an evening. 2nd. You are requested not only to exercise in the morning but also in the evening sufficiently for the preservation of health. 3rd. It is expected that you never detain the family by unnecessary delay; either at meals or family prayer. To be absent when a blessing is asked at table, or when the family have assembled to read the word of God, and to solicit his favor, discovers a want of reverence to his name, and shows that you have a cold heart destitute of gratitude to the author of all good. 4th. It is expected as rational and immortal beings that you read a portion of Scripture, both morning and evening with meditation and prayer. That you never read the word of God carelessly or make use of any Scripture phrase in a light or trifling manner 5th. It is expected that you attend public worship every Sabbath, except some unavoidable circumstance prevent, which you will dare to present as a sufficient apology at the day of judgment.