nature, can ever hope to do. Still 
does the love and admiration.which 
he feels foi’ them, testify of his 
yearnings after a holier and better 
state of existence, and of the hopes 
which, often unknown tq* himself, 
he cherishes, that he may, due day, 
resume his cast off, but not entirely 
rejected, garment of purity,, and 
be again like unto those 
“ Floral apostles, that in dewy splendour 
Weep without woe, and blush without a 
crime.” 
And he would be uttering the true 
wish of his soul, were he further 
to exclaim, with Horace Smith, 
“ Oh, may I deeply learn, and ne’e 
surrender 
Your lore sublime .” 
