O earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wailers heap! O strife, O curse, that o’er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And “giveth His beloved sleep!” His dew drops mutely on the hill; His cloud above it saileth still, Though on its slope men toil and reap! More softly than the dew is shed, Or cloud is floated overhead, “He giveth His beloved sleep.” Ha! men may wonder while they scan A living, thinking, feeling man, In such a rest his heart to keep; But angels say—and through the word I ween their blessed smile is _heard_— “He giveth His beloved sleep!” For me my heart that erst did go, Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the juggler’s leap,— Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on _His_ love repose, Who “giveth His beloved sleep!” And friends!—dear friends!—when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep— Let me, most loving of you all, Say, not a tear must o’er her fall— “He giveth His beloved sleep!” Stars that Have Set in MDCCCXLII.—Among the dead of the year now drawing to a close, America laments her Marsh and Channing, and Europe, Sismondi and some less brilliant luminaries. The Rev. James Marsh, D.D. was, at the time of his death, the third day of July, Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy in the University of Vermont. He was a calm, chaste scholar, an earnest and profound thinker, and a powerful and eloquent advocate of the highest principles of religion and philosophy, with the perfect simplicity and grandeur of whose life were blended the rarest virtues that adorn humanity. His principal published writings, excepting a few articles in the leading reviews, and some translations from the German, are devoted to those high and spiritual principles of philosophy, of which Coleridge and Kant were the most celebrated European exponents. We are pleased to learn that Professor Torrey, one of the dearest friends of the departed, is now superintending the publication of a complete edition of his works.