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heart ; its fields are the barren sands of 
Lybia, and its breath the simoom. Ra- 
ther be our’s the untutored solitude and 
savage liberty of the woods, where we 
might “see God in clouds and hear him 
in the winds,”’ than the Christian civili- 
zation of such a state of orderly so- 
ciety. 
‘But we must return to the vic- 
tims— 
“* How had Yeruti borne to see her fade? 
But he was spared the lamentable sight, 
Himself upon the bed of sickness laid. 
Joy of his heart, and of his eyes the light 
Had Mooma been to him, his soul’s delight, 
On whom his mind for ever was intent, 
His darling thought by day, his dream 
by night, 
The playmate of his youth in mercy sent, 
With whom his life had past in peacefullest 
content. 
“ Well was it for the youth, and well for 
her, 
As there in placid helplessness she lay, 
He was not present with his love to stir 
Emotions that might shake her feeble clay, 
And rouse up in her heart a strong array 
Of feelings, hurtful only when they bind 
To earth the soul that soon must pass 
away.” 
So a brother’s hand smooth’d not 
the -death-bed pillow of a sister: that 
office was to be performed by the Jesuit 
Dobrizhoffer. For poor Mooma _her- 
self—her earthly hopes had ended at 
her mother’s grave. 
“ Her only longing now was, free as air 
From this obtrusive flesh to take her flight 
For Paradise, and seek her mother there.” 
She fled; and Yeruti’s doom, or his 
release, was not long delayed. He had 
not “lost the dead : _—” 
“ Soon shall he join them in their 
_ . heavenly sphere, 
And often, even now, he knew that they 
were near. 
*Twas but in open day to close his eyes, 
And shut out the unprofitable view 
Of all this weary world’s realities, 
And forthwith, even as if they lived anew, 
The dead were with him: features, form 
and hue, 
And looks and gestures, were restored 
in, : 
Their actual presence in his heart he knew ; 
And when. their converse was disturbed, 
oh ! then 
How flat and stale it was to mix ‘with living 
men! ag 
~ 
He went on, | however, wath s aon 
wholly on obedience bent, ”” -performing 
whatever task the Jesuits directed, at 
loom, in garden, or in field.” 
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* And when to church the congregation 
went, 
None more exact than he ‘to Cross his 
breast, 
And kneel, or rise, ond do in all things 
like the rest. 
Cheerful he was, almost like one elate 
With wine, before it hath disturbed his 
power 
Of reason. 
weight, 
Of time ; for alway when from yonder tower 
He heard the clock tell out the passing 
‘hour, 
The sound appeared to giye him some 
delight ; 
And when the evening shades began to 
lower, 
Then was he seen to watch the fading light 
As if his heart rejoiced at the return of night. 
Yet he seem’d to feel the 
“ The old man to whom he had been given 
in care, 
To Dobrizhoffer came one day, and said, 
The trouble which our youth was thought 
to bear 
With such indifference, hath deranged 
his head. 
He says that he is nightly visited. 
His Mother and his Sister come and say 
That he must give this message from the 
dead 
Not to defer his baptism, and delay 
A soul upon the earth which should no 
longer stay.” 
Dobrizhoffer, however, thought ft 
still to delay the baptismal rite. 
“‘ But the old Indian came again ere long 
With the same tale, and freely then con- 
fest 
His doubt that he had done Yeruti wrong ; 
For something more than common seem’d 
imprest ; 
And now he thought that certes it were 
best 
From the youth’s lips his own account to 
hear— 
Haply the Father then to his request 
Might yield, regarding his desire sincere, 
Nor wait for farther time if there were 
aught to fear. 
Yeruti is questioned by the Jesuit— 
“Came they to him in dreams?... He 
could not tell. 
Sleeping or waking new small difference 
made ; tid 
For even while he slept he knew full well 
That his dear Mother and that darling 
Maid 
Both in the Garden of the Dead were laid : 
And yet he saw them as inife, the same, 
Save only! that in radiant robes arrayed, 
And round about their Laegti io when 
they came 
There shone an affluent. light as of a harm- 
less flame. 
“ And 
