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what now renders llie Abbey beautiful and grand, and leave standing, 

 nothing, but the crumbling walls, from which the owl will hoot, and 

 among which ghosts will hold their midnight orgies. And then the 

 firm stone will moulder away and away, until not one block shall re- 

 main upon another, where now, the already old Abbey rears its lofty 

 turrets. Standing among the ruins of Petra and gazing upon its wonders 

 we exclaim, where now is human glory ? The spirit of twenty 

 centuries of death-like silence reviving moans through the oriels of its 

 crumbling temples, "Passing away." The lofty Pyramids, around whose 

 tops their builders fondly hoped Eternity would play, must perish. A 

 broken corner here, a crumblingmass there, utter slowly but surely, 

 "Passing away." And the Abbey — though prince and people strive to 

 the last to preserve this great Mausoleum, this national Urn of national 

 greatness, the hollow winds, that sweep along the shattered fretwork 

 of its pointed arches, mourn, "Passing away.' There is written upon 

 the fleeting clouds of heaven — upon the deep waters — upon the giants of 

 the forest — upon the everlasting hills — upon all things earthly — upon 

 Man himself, "Passing away." — And soon comes the time, when 



"The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, 

 The solemn temples, the great globe itself. 

 Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve, 

 And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, 

 Leave not a wreck behind !" 



COLLEGE RECOLLECTIONS. 



Whether college recollections are profitable or not to the reader, may 

 be a question not easily settled. To those who were actors in them, 

 they are often beneficial, as the means of impressing deeply upon their 

 minds how little gratification grows out of the best contrived and most 

 clever trick. Notwithstanding the extraordinary tact which teachers of 

 youth acquire in ascertaining character, they are often deceived. The 

 wild and reckless dare-devil is not always the most tricky or trouble- 

 some. There are some sober-sided grave-faced chaps, who have run- 

 ning through them an under-current of fun and frolic that seems to be 

 inexhaustible. These are the fellows who will maintain a respectable 

 standing in their classes and yet have a hand in almost all the mischief 

 that is disturbing the College or neighborhood. They will retire to rest 

 at the proper hour and rise again to run through town and disturb the 

 peaceful slumbers of their unoffending neighbors. ]Many of their pranks 

 could be told, if the narration, by anv construction, could be made use- 



