108 THE BANK ACCOUNTANT. 



a rage, and becoming what the dead man would have 

 deemed libellous ; to the font, too, under a dripping 

 vault of ribbed stone, in which an insane mother used to 

 sing to sleep the poor infant, who, afterwards becoming 

 Lieutenant-general Anderson, built for poor paupers like 

 his mother, and poor children such as he himself had 

 once been, the princely institution which bears his name. 

 And then, after passing from the stone font to the in- 

 stitution itself, with its happy children, and its very un- 

 happy old men and women, Mr Forsyth conveyed us to 

 the pastoral, semi-Highland valley of Plus car dine, with 

 its beautiful wood-embosomed priory, one of perhaps 

 the finest and most symmetrical specimens of the un- 

 ornamented Gothic of the times of Alexander II. to be 

 seen anywhere in Scotland/ 



His wedding gift to his wife was a Bible, on which 

 he inscribed a few stanzas expressive of the pious joy, 

 deep but not exultant, and with its pensive vein, which 

 he felt on putting it into her hand. 



' much-beloved, our coming day 



To us is all unknown ; 

 But sure we stand a broader mark 



Than they who stand alone. 

 One knows it all : not His an eye 



Like ours, obscured and dim ; 

 And knowing us, He gives this Book, 



That we may know of Him. 



' His words, my love, are gracious words, 



And gracious thoughts express : 

 He cares e'en for each little bird 



That wings the blue abyss. 

 Of coming wants and woes He thought, 



Ere want or woe began ; 

 And took to Him a human heart, 



That He might feel for man. 



