I love society;--I am o'erblest to hear The mingling voices of a world; mine ear Drinks in their music with a spiritual taste; I love companionship on life's dark waste, And could not live unheard;--yet that still vale-- It had no fearful mystery in its tale;-- Its hush was grand, not awful, as if there The voice of nature were a breathing prayer. 'Twas like a holy temple, where the pure Might blend in their heart-worship, and be sure No sound of earth could come--a soul kept still, In faith's unanswering meekness, for heaven's will, Its eloquent thoughts sent upward and abroad, But all its deep hushed voices kept for God! DESCRIPTIONS OF THE DIVINE BEING. By Gershom F. Cox. It is a difficult task to shadow forth spirit. The best emblems of the earth can give but faint and distant views of its incomprehensible nature. Our own consciousness, too, must fail to give us adequate notions of the mysterious traits of its character. Aided by the brightest images of earth, or the most subtle principles of philosophy, who can bring to view any tolerably good picture of a HUMAN SOUL!--who can draw the outlines of thought!--thought that is as immeasurable as the universe!--thought that _could encompass_, with more than the quickness of the lightning's flash, all that God has made!--thought that gives to us, at once, the gravity of the merest atom, the beauties and properties of the petal of a single flower, or the structure, density, size and weight of the worlds that border on the outskirts of our own universe; and when it has done its noble work, as if plumed for fresh conquests, stretches itself far beyond the material universe, into the deep solitudes of eternity, in quest of something more! Who, we ask again, can give the outlines of thought? Who can tell us of its yet hidden resources; or of a mind like that of Newton, or of Bacon, which, after they had taken from the arcana of nature some of her most hidden principles, "entered the secret place of the Most High, and lodged beneath the shadow of the Almighty?" How much less, then, can we give just descriptions of the DEITY! How can we describe Him "who covereth himself with LIGHT as with a garment,"--whom no man hath seen, nor can see.