"PATRICK. Thou art of all created things, O Lord, the essence and the cause -- The source and centre of all bliss; What are those veils of woven light, Where sun and moon and stars unite -- The purple morn, the spangled night -- But curtains which thy mercy draws Between the heavenly world and this? The terrors of the sea and land -- When all the elements conspire, The earth and water, storm and fire -- Are but the shadows of thy hand; Do they not all in countless ways -- The lightning's flash -- the howling storm -- The dread volcano's awful blaze -- Proclaim thy glory and thy praise? Beneath the sunny summer showers Thy love assumes a milder form, And writes its angel name in flowers; The wind that flies with winged feet Around the grassy gladdened earth, Seems but commissioned to repeat In echo's accents -- silvery sweet -- That thou, O Lord, didst give it birth. There is a tongue in every flame -- There is a tongue in every wave -- To these the bounteous Godhead gave These organs but to praise his name! O mighty Lord of boundless space, Here canst thou be both sought and found -- For here in everything around, Thy presence and thy power I trace. With Faith my guide and my defence, I burn to serve in love and fear; If as a slave, Oh, leave me here! If not, O Lord, remove me hence!" The "Athenaeum", Oct. 26, 1853. ACT THE THIRD. SCENE X. The account of St. Patrick's Purgatory given by Luis Enius in this long narrative is taken immediately from the seventh, eighth, and ninth chapters of Montalvan's "Vida y Purgatorio de San Patricio", which, as already stated, are themselves a translation from the "Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum" of Messingham. The following extracts are taken from the tract referred to in the Introduction, the full title of which is as follows:-- "A BRIEF HISTORY OF SAINT PATRICK'S PURGATORY, AND ITS PILGRIMAGE. Collected out of Ancient Historians. Written in Latin by the Reverend MR. THOMAS MESSINGHAM, formerly Superior of the Irish Seminary in Paris. [Paris, 1624.] "And now made English in favour of those who are curious to know the Particulars of that Famous Place and Pilgrimage so much celebrated by Antiquity. "Printed at Paris, 1718." "CHAPTER IV. "Of the Penitent Soldier, his going into this Purgatory, and of the Messengers sent from God unto him.