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that the term of her long dominion is approaching. She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world, and feels no assurance· that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was
respected be re the Saxon had set ot in Britain, be re the Frank had passed the Rhine, when Gre­ cian eloquence still ourished at Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca; and she may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller om New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand upon a broken arch of London Bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
MACAULEY..
1. WHEN I have seen thy snowy wing O'er the blue wave at evening spring, And give those scales of silver white So gaily to the eye of light,
As if thy ame were rm'd to rise, And live amid the glorious skies; Oh! it has made me proudly feel How like thy wing's impatient zeal Is the pure soul, that scorns to rest
pon the world's ignoble breast,
But takes the plume that God has given, And rises into light and heaven!
2. But when I see that wing so bright, Grow languid with a moment's ight, ttempt the paths of air in vain, And sink into the wave again;
LESSON XXV.
TO THE FLYING FISH.