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All things th' impartial hand of fate 



( 'an rase out with a thought : 

 These have a several fixed date, 



Which ended, turne to nought. 

 Yet shall my truest cause 

 Of sorrow firmly stay, 

 W hen these effects the wings of time 

 Shall fanne and sweepe away." 



\V. BROWNE'S Shepherd's Pipe. 



Montgomery would rather associate more pleasing 

 ideas with the memory of a departed friend : 



" To some warm heart the poorest dust was dear, 

 From some kind eye the meanest claimed a tear ; 

 And oft' the living, by affection led, 

 Were wont to walk in spirit with their dead, 

 Where no dark cypress cast a doleful gloom, 

 No blighting yew shed poison o'er the tomb, 

 But, white and red with intermingling flowers : 

 Green myrtle fenced it, and beyond their bound, 

 Ran the clear rill with ever murmuring sound. 

 'Twas not a scene for grief to nourish care, 

 It breathed of hope, and moved the heart to prayer." 



World before the Flood. 



The origin of the Cypress-tree, and the reason of its 

 association with ideas of gloom and death, is mentioned 

 by Ovid : 



" Dear to the god, who awes, yet charms the throng, 

 Who strings the bow for war, the harp for song, 

 Thither, a youth of yore, but now a shade, 

 Small by degrees, the mournful cypress strayed. 



A giant-stag once coursed Carthoea's glades, 

 Admired, nay worshipped, by the sylvan maids : 

 Antlers of gold rose glittering on his head, 

 Round his sleek throat a chain of jewels spread 

 Fell on his shoulder; fixed by leathern ties, 

 A ball of silver played between his eyes, 



