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May live, when all those stars have gone To starless night, without a morn,

And immortality be mine,

With her I loved, in bliss divine.

In bliss divine-it must be such,
When hearts so meet that loved so much;
And makes a world all shade appear
When hearts so bound are parted here.
Here-where alone the weeper goes,
And tear on tear the eye o'erflows;
And though for all I wake a smile,
No cheer my sorrow may beguile.

Beguile! ah, no- -the grave alone
Hath spell to cheer my heart forlorn :
And there, a voice doth wake for me
As seraph's sweetest symphony.

Symphony-and dearly soft as hers,
My loved one's, 'mong the slumberers;
And tells me now, "'tis sweet to die,
And lay the weeping body by:

"The body by. And thou shalt come
Where spirits have their happy home;
And we will love, how dearer still,
Where time no passage knows, nor will :

"Nor will. And all shall safety be Through blest, through dear eternity; And memories and all we were,

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"Is dearer yet. Come, then, my love,

When God shall call for thee, above,
And I will be thine angel given

To fly with thee, from earth, to heaven:

"To heaven! Oh what a heaven 'twill be, My own, my own again to see;

And love as we have loved before,
And be beloved for evermore.

For evermore on heaven's bright shore;
Where all is for thee, love, in store,→
Thy full, dear longings that I've seen,
As in thy dreams, sweet dreams I've been.

"I've been, and seen thy bleeding heart
Since we were called of heaven to part,
As o'er thee I have hung full oft, -
And whispered thee so sweet, so soft.

"So soft-as spirits from above

Do whisper those they seek and love;
And oft I've kissed thy tears away,
As thou upon thy pillow lay:

"Upon thy pillow lay. Oh weep
No more for me, awake, asleep;
But love for heaven is made of love,
Such love as thine-'twill live above.

""Twill live above, and mine for thee,
How pure, how deep, eternally!
And we will be as if but one,
As we shall worship by the throne.

"As we shall worship by the throne,
Where all the pure of heart are known;
And praise our father God above,
Who made us for each other's love."

So muse I-weep-so love-so pray,
As on that Cross my gaze will stay,
And in the hours of waning night,
Behold that star-lit cross of light.

ARRIVED AT LAST, THOUGH NOT LAST OR LEAST.

Our passage from the mouth of the Rio Bravo del Norte has been against head winds, and amid calms, so as to render us impatient, at times, under the expectation that the John Adams may have had a quick run to Pensacola, and may again have sailed, with our letters, before we shall have reached the same port. The Cumberland, however, made the best of her capabilities, under disadvantageous circumstances; and every puff of favoring breeze yielded its impulse to a spread of canvas, that courted its influence. At six bells, the first watch, the night breeze bearing us along at a respectable rate, the cry from the tops announced the Barrancas' light, two points on our lee bow, and declared us to be within a few miles of the anchorage off the Navy Yard, Pensacola. The frigate, impatient of the compara tively long delay on her course, had spread some unusual sails, wide wings and high kites-having set all her studding-sails, high and low-sky-sails-gaff top-sails-and main-top-gallant-stay-sail-for she was unwilling to be another night at sea. The surface of the deep was even, and the motion of the ship hardly perceptible, as she cut her way on her night course. Nor was she long, before the desirable depth of soundings was found-the anchors let go-and a gun boomed over the water, to tell the Potomac (she having joined us during the day) that we had anchored, and to follow our motion, and with us, wait for the break of day and pilots, to take the ships over the bar, and put them in their berth, off the Navy Yard. And all this entrance into the inner bay was accomplished as the beautiful morning of May 29th advanced, with its sunshine and its breeze. The pass over the bar and entrance into this inner bay, formed by Santa Rosa island and the main land, is defended by heavy fortifications, which showed us, as we con

templated their bearings and threatening fronts, how securely the entrance is defended against an enemy, and how certainly it proffers protection to friends. The passage is beautiful and unique. What is strikingly peculiar, is the appearance of the beach, as it extends its white lines along the shores. The sand, as stainless and colorless as the new fallen snow, in contrast with a green and sparse scrubby growth, presents the appearance of long lines of surf, dashing on the beach, every way and every where-on point and on the longer ranges of the shores of both the island and the main. We passed handsomely in, followed by the Potomac-making a "flying moor," and swinging around, in our place, with the Adams again, as our beautiful but smaller neighbour. Thus had the Adams not left the harbor; and though, having started five days before us, and we ourselves having had a long passage, she had arrived only two days previous to the Cumberland. The Adams had met a gale; and like ourselves, had beaten against head-winds; but all, at last, successfully reaching this frequent rendezvous of THE HOME SQUADRON.

SECTION VI.

PENSACOLA.

LETTERS-they are the blessed angels (ayyshot) which we expect to come on their wings to meet us, as the messengers that bear to us the salutations, for which we turn and long, on our arrival at a new port, before we look for new friends or circumstances of any new interest. Are those we love, well-has God protected them-and are they happy? If the breaking of seals and the perusal of communications from home, tell us all this, we, also, are comparatively happy and well, and then, turn to other scenes, which may be new, and inquire for their interest and what bearing they may have, to add knowledge to our observation -pleasure, in the formation of new acquaintances—and for the agreeable passage of time, while the ship shall be lying at her moorings on the bosom of some new bay, that washes the shores of some before unvisited region.

But these neighboring shores and these surrounding waters, which are contemplated from the deck of our frigate, I have before seen. Yet it was some years ago, and before I had been quite around the world, in my wanderings. It was among the earliest and wildest adventures of my youth; and yet, was accomplished for observation of my own country, in its length and in its breadth, before I sought for observation, in countries abroad. And I then thought,

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