XLIII.-SONG OF THE UNION. CUMMINGS. [Rev. Dr. Cummings, a Catholic clergyman, was pastor of St. Stephen's Church, New York. He died January 4, 1866.] 1. ERE peace and freedom, hand in hand, And make it their abode, It was the footstool of a throne; 2. Americans uprose in might, Union! the magic battle-cry, That hurled the tyrant from on high, 3. That word since then hath shone on high, It is our country's name! What impious hand shall rashly dare 4. The spirits of the heroic dead, 5. From vast Niagara's gurgling roar 6. The God of nations, in whose name 1 CHÄR/TER. To dwell as brethren here below; A written instrument, | 2 BLEND'ED. Mingled. bestowing rights or privileges. 3 WEAL. Happiness; prosperity. XLIV. THE BURIAL OF MOSES. ["And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."—. Deut. xxxiv. 6.] 1. By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave, For the angels of God upturned the sod, 2. That was the grandest funeral Comes when the night is done, And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek 3. Noiselessly as the spring time Her crown of verdure weaves, Or voice of them that wept, Silently down from the mountain crown 4. Perchance the bald old eagle, Looked on the wondrous sight. Still shuns that hallowed spot, For beast and bird have seen and heard 5. But when the warrior dieth, With arms reversed and muffled 2 drum, They show the banners taken, They tell his battles won, And after him lead his masterless steed, 6. Amid the noblest of the land Men lay the sage to rest, And give the bard an honored place In the great minster transept, Where lights like glories fall, 4 And the sweet choir sings, and the organ rings, Along the emblazoned wall. 7. This was the bravest warrior That ever buckled sword; That ever breathed a word; On the deathless page, truths half so sage, 8. And had he not high honor? And the dark rock pines, like tossing plumes, Over his bier to wave; And God's own hand, in that lonely land, 9. In that deep grave, without a name, Whence his uncoffined clay Shall break again -most wondrous thought! Before the judgment day, And stand with glory wrapped around On the hills he never trod, And speak of the strife that won our life 10. O lonely tomb in Moab's land, Speak to these curious hearts of ours, God hath his mysteries of grace- He hides them deep, like the secret sleep 1 STALK'ING. Stealthily walking in search of prey. MUFFLED. Having something wound round so as to render the sound low or solemn. called the transept. The transept divides the long aisle into two unequal parts, the longer of which is called the nave, and the other the choir. CHOIR. A band of singers in church service; also, the part of a church where the singers are placed. EM-BLA'ZONED. Adorned with armorial ensigns or badges. 8 MIN'STER TRĂN'SĚPT. A minster 4 is a monastic or a cathedral church. The ground plan of minsters is usually in the form of a cross, with 5 one long aisle and a short one crossing it. The cross aisle is 6 ĮN-CAR'NATE. Embodied in flesh. XLV.-MOTIVES TO INTELLECTUAL ACTION IN AMERICA. GEORGE S. HILLARD. 1. THE motives to intellectual' action press upon us with peculiar force, in our country, because the connection is here so immediate between character and happiness, and because there is nothing between us and ruin, but intelli、 gence which sees the right, and virtue which pursues it, There are such elements of hope and fear, mingled in the great experiment which is here trying, the results are so momentous to humanity, that all the voices of the past and the future seem to blend in one sound of warning and entreaty, addressing itself not only to the general, but to the individual ear. 2. By the wrecks of shattered states, by the quenched lights of promise that once shone upon man, by the longdeferred hopes of humanity, by all that has been done. and suffered in the cause of liberty, by the martyrs that died before the sight, by the exiles whose hearts have |