Work ever! Life's moments Are fleeting and brief; Behind is the burden, Before, the relief. Work nobly! the deed Liveth bright in the Past, When the spirit that planned Is at rest from the blast; Work nobly! the Infinite Spreads to thy sight, The higher thou soarest The stronger thy flight. And when from thy vision Loved faces shall wane, And thy heart-strings thrill wildly With anguish and pain; The voices that now Are as faint as the tone Of the Zephyr, that stirs not The rose on its throne, Shall burst on thy soul,-- An orchestra divine, With seraph and cherub From Deity's shrine. "A DREAM THAT WAS NOT ALL A DREAM." Through the half-curtained window stole An Autumn sunset's glow, As languid on my couch I lay With pulses weak and low. And then methought a presence stood, With shining feet and fair, Amid the waves of golden light That rippled through the air, And laid upon my heaving breast, With earnest glance and true, A babe, whose fair and gentle brow No shade of sorrow knew. A solemn joy was in my heart,-- Immortal life was given To Earth, upon her battle-field To discipline for Heaven. Soft music thrilled the quiet room,-- An unseen host were nigh, Who left the infant pilgrim at The threshold of our sky. A new, strange love woke in my heart, Defying all control, As on the soft air rose and fell That birth-hymn for a soul! And now again the Autumn skies, As on that evening, shine, When, from a trance of agony, I woke to joy divine. That boundless love is in my heart, That birth-hymn on the air; I clasp in mine, with grateful faith, A tiny hand in prayer. And bless the God who guides my way, That, mid this world so wide, I day by day am walking with An angel by my side. THE JUDGMENT OF THE DEAD. Diodorus has recorded an impressive Egyptian ceremonial, the judgment of the dead by the living. When the corpse, duly embalmed, had been placed by the margin of the Acherusian Lake, and before consigning it to the bark that was to bear it across the waters to its final resting-place, it was permitted to the appointed judges to hear all accusations against the past life of the deceased, and if proved, to deprive the corpse of the rites of sepulture. From this singular law not even kings were exempt.