32<5 HYMNS BY SENEX. juIy 5, 



" I have feen the fun fet in the weft, and the fliadea 

 ** of night fliut in the wide horizon : there was no co- 

 *' lour, nor fhape, nor beauty, nor mufic ; gloom 



" and darknefs brooded around 1 looked, the 



*' fun broke forth again from the eali, and gilded the 

 *' mountain tops ; the lark rofe to meet him from her 

 " low neft, and the ftiades of darknefs fled away. 



" I have feen the infeft, being come to its full {iz.e, 

 *' languifti, and refufe to eat : It ipun itfelf a tomb, 

 " and was fhrouded in the filken cone ; it lay without 



*' feet, or fliape, or power to move I looked 



•' again, — it had burft its tomb; it was full of life, and 

 *• failed on coloured wings through the foft air ; it re- 

 *' joiced in its new being, 



" Thus fliall it be with thee, O man ! and fo fliall 

 •• thy life be renewed. 



" Beauty fliall fpnng up out of aflies, and life out 

 « of the duft. 



" A little while ftialt thou lie in the ground, as the 

 " feed lieth in the bofom of the earth : But thou Ihalt 

 «.' be raifed again; and if thou art good, thou Ihalt ne- 

 " ver die any more. 



" Mourn not therefore, child of immortality !■ ., 

 " for the fpoiler, the cruel fpoiler, that laid wafte the 

 " works of God, is fubdued I j£sus hath conquered 



" death : — Child of immortality I mourn no 



" longer." 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



On Herodotus the Hi/lorian. 



History is a fpecies of compofition, at the fame time 

 the moft popular and the moft dignified. To excel in 

 it, requires imagination with all its fplendour, and 

 judgment with all its knowledge ; it therefore includes 

 almoft every denomination of readers; it particularly Ix^-i 



