O glorious life! Thy heart was free From aught of earth, From glittering gold, or bauble fair Of little worth. Thy gaze was fixed on Heaven's courts, Thy heart's desire On Calvary's top where Jesus burnt In love's fierce fire. O noble champion of the cross, Thy course is run. Like heaven's light, thy soul returns To heaven's Sun. O beauteous death! No worldly grief Is blustering there, The Church's voice, her tender plaint Scents all the air. How sweet to die, when voice of prayer Doth rend the skies. Released from earth, the soul ascends In glad surprise. And what is left? The house of clay Where dwelt the soul. That temple grand, where hymns to God Did often roll. Ah! guard it well, its blessed walls Will rise again. Again the soul in heaven will chant Its glad refrain. His tomb will blossom fair with flowers-- A mother's tears. In memory's halls, his name will live Through countless years. Sleep on, brave soldier, sleep And take thy rest. Like John thou sleepest now On Jesus' breast. Crown and Crescent. A great event was witnessed on the evening of Monday, November 23, when the new electric crown and crescent, which adorn the statue of Our Lady on the dome of the university, were lit up for the first time. There, lifted high in the air--two hundred feet above the ground--the grand, colossal figure of the Mother of God appeared amid the darkness of the night in a blaze of light, with its diadem of twelve electric stars, and under its feet the crescent moon formed of twenty-seven electric lights. Truly, it was a grand sight; and one, which, though it is becoming familiar to the inmates of Notre Dame, must ever strike the beholder with awe and reverence, realizing as it does, the most perfect expression, in a material representation, of the prophetic declaration of Holy Writ: _And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars._ It must, indeed, have been an inspiration, or a prophetic foresight of the great advance soon to be made in the domain of science, that, a few years ago, caused the venerable founder of Notre Dame to conceive the grand idea which to-day we see so perfectly realized. In 1879, when the new Notre Dame was being raised upon the ruins of the old, comparatively little progress had as yet been made in electric lighting. In particular, the great problem of the minute subdivision of the light remained unsolved. Edison had not then begun his experiments, and the incandescent light was not even dreamed of. To employ the arc light around the statue was out of the question, not only because the necessary appliances would detract from the beauty of the figure, but also on account of the daily attention which the lamps would require.