A Beautiful Figure

How ful the following, and how happy must be the heart that can soe these bcí.uties aud understand tliem : - " Why is t that the rainbow and the olouds ceme over us with a beauty that is not of earth and then pass away and leave us to muse on tiieir faded loveliucss? Why is it that the stars which hold their miglity festival around the midnight tlironc are placed abovo the rcaeh of our limited facultiis, forevcr mockiug as with their unapproachablo glory ? And why is it that the liglit forras of human beauty aru presentcd to our views and taken from u., yet lcaving tlie thousand streams of affection to flow in AlpiDe torrents upon the hoart ? We ire boni for a higlier destiny than that raearth. ïliere is a realin where the will b nevcr fades ! - where the stars on tuJ00 us '"ie 'slan(s sluniberfüf bwnesifi?1"1' and whero tlic beilllii will stav in ou?aS;i bufljr" us hke mctors yenee forevcr.