LITERATURE.

Here is a banquet-table of delights,

A sumptuous feast of true ambrosial food;

Here is a journey among goodly sights,

In choice society or solitude;

Here is a treasury of gems and gold —

Of purest gold and gems of brightest sheen;

Here is a landscape gloriously unroll'd,

Of heights sublime and pleasant vales between.

Here is the realm of Thought, diverse and wide,

To Genius and her sovereign sons assign'd;

The universal church, o'er which preside

The heaven-anointed hierarchy of mind

And spirit; the imperishable pride

And testament and promise of mankind.