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Come rise, my soul, to higher things, 
Substantial and sublime ; 
Come mvunt, on Faith’s immortal wings, 
Above the Earth and Time. 
Beheld! the rising Son of God, 
With uncreated light, 
Breaks thro’ the ceremonial cloud, 
And Natare’s darker night. 
He comes to glad our darksome earth, 
(AIL hail !. immortal king,) 
Attending angels at his birth 
Loud hallelujahs sing. 
See how the shadows all disperse, 
His glories how they swell ; 
He comes to bear away the curse,— 
To save from gaping hell. 
Great op’ner of eternal day ! 
Thou source of life divine! 
Come, cheer these gloomy shades away 
From this dark soul of mine. 
But, oh! the more of him I think, 
The more on him I gaze, 
The more my feeble powers sink, 
Enwrapt in sweet amaze. ; 
To think that each believing soul 
’ From Christ has been supply’d, 
Yet he remains as rich and full 
_ As when the first apply'd. 
Yes, our Redeemer is the same, 
In plenitude of grace, 
As when the first poor sinner came, 
And felt his quick’ning rays. 
Believers never can be lost, 
Whate’er their faith assail ; 
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The Saviour’s powercan nc’er exhanst, 
Nor his compassion fail. O.P.Q. ~ 
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MOUNTAIN SONG; 
From the German of Schiller. 
By GEORGE OLAUS BORROW. 
That pathway before ye, so narrow and gray, 
To the depths of the chasm is leading; 
But giants stand centinel ever the way, ‘ 
And threaten death to the unheeding : 
Be silent and watchfel, each step that you take, 
Lest the sound of your voices the lions* awake. 
And there is a bridge,—see yonder its span 
O’er the gush of the cataract bending, 
It never receiv’d its foundation from man,— 
Each mortal would die in ascending: 
The torrents, uprooting the pine and the larch, 
Dash over, but never can splinter its arch, 
And now we must enter a hidden ravine, 
With its crags loosely tottering o’er us; 
Pass on, and a valley delightfully green 
Will open its bosom before us. 
©! that E could fly from each worldly alluy, 
To finish my days in its circle of joy. 
Down from a cave four rivers are bur]’d, 
Each musters its force like a legion ; 
And then they seek all the four parts of the world, 
Each choosing a separate region: 
All from the cavern are secretly tost, 
They murmur away, and for ever are Jost. 
Three pinnacles tower, and enter the blue 
High over the mountains aud waters; 
There wanton, st rounded by vapour and dew, 
The bands of the heavenly daughters ; 
And there they continue their desolate reign, 
Their charms are unseen, and are wish’d for in vain. 
The queen of the regions sits high on her throne, 
And our sages have told me in story, 
That she wears on her temples a chrysolite crown, 
Which causes yon halo of glory; 
The suo on her robes darts his arrows of gold, 
And brightens them only,—they ever are cold. 
« The Avalanches, called in the Swiss dialect 
Lawiné, or Lions, 
PROCEEDINGS OF PUBLIC SOCIETIES. 
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ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
[We translate the following Report from 
the Revue Encyelopedique; buat the 
French reperts in science, are some- 
thing like the French reports of military 
affairs in Spain—they are all over 
Bourbon. It would seem from these 
papers, that France was the focus of 
science, and that other nations are tame 
spectators of the vaunted discoveries of 
the great nation, whose genius is in- 
spired by their political regeneration. 
The contrary is, however, the fact, and 
the French eontinue the mere echoes of 
what has been discovered, or is ope- 
rating in other nations. As, however, 
they are vain historians, and the same 
body of tacts is not elsewhere so well 
exhibited, we shall continue, as m better 
periods of French history, to present 
whatever transpires in the Institute, 
and has the semblance of novelty.] 
Notice relative to the Labours of the 
Academy of Sciences during the year 
1822. é 
report of M. Teurier, on the progress 
of the mathematical sciences, for this, 
qnoting a former number of the Review. 
Herein it is observed, that since the 
public sitting of the Institute, wherein 
iat report was read, the auihor has 
added illustrations, with occasional éx- 
tracts from the works wherecf he treats, 
accompanied with brief remarks, to 
stimulate ard facilitate the Kuowledge 
and study of those works. 
In geometry, the author of “ Celestial 
Mechanics” bas published. the fifth and 
last volume of that great work. ‘The 
question of the figure of the earth is 
there discussed, in points of view that 
had not, previously, been entertained. 
As, 1. Vhe dynamic effcct of the pre- 
sence and distribution of the waters 
on the surface of the globe. 2. The 
compression exercised on the interior 
couches, or lays. 3. The change of 
dimensious that would be produced by 
HS article commences with a re-~ the progressive cooler temperature (ré- 
ference, by the editors, to the froidissement) of the land. Each of these 
Mee 
causes 
