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A new -’tar in the fin name ill, Lo light and glory born!
Alas ! the change !— she placed her foot upon a triple throne,
And on the scarfoUl now she star, (is— beside tlie block— Aijnxu 1

Tl:e little dog that licks her hand-— the last of ail the crowd
Who sunned themselves beneath her glance, and round her footsteps
bowed !
— Her neck is bared— the blow ig struck-— -the son! is passed away!
The bright, the beautiful, is now a bleeding pkxe of clay I
The dog i.-i moar.ing piteously; and as it gurgles o’er,
Laps the warm blood that trickling runs unheeded to the floor !
The blood of beauty, wealth, and power— the beart-blood of a Queen.
Tlie noblest of the Stuart race— the fairest earth has seen—
jLapped by a dog ! Go think of it, in silence and alone ;
Then weigh against a grain of sand the glories of a throne!
H, G. B elt,.

ONE NICHE THE HIGHEST.

The author o f Lhi.-, thrilling sketch was calk'd “ Thu Liinmed Blacks:mtl:,''
ft:i Si'.iymnt o f Jiavii;:/ learned to speak many .ilthor.gli lit; worked daily
at the forge. This vrudtng is (mo of h is most vivid descriptions,
d-JIl scene onens with a view of the treat Natural Bridge in
J. vJ o
Virgijvii, I ’beve are three: or four lad* standing in the channel
below, looking up with awe to that vast arch of unhewn rock?
which the Almighty bridged over those everlasting hutments, 11 rhen
file morning stars sang together.” The little piece of sky spanning
Ujc.-:c n'.easurdcss piers is fill of stars, although it is midday. It is
almost fve handled fix! from where they stand, up these perpendicular
bulwarks of limestone to the key of tha£ vast arch, which appeals to
them only of the size of a man’s hand.
The silence o f deal h is rendered more impressive by tile little stream
that falls from rock to reck down 1 lit: channel. The sun is darkened,
and the boys have uncovered their beads as if standing in the prt:.-:ence-
chamber o f the Majesty o f the whole earth. A t last this feeling begins
to wear away ; they look around them and find that others have been