...some comfort to a sorrowing mother " who has lost her babe in infancy," I shall transcribe them. " They sin who tell us love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity ; Earthly, these passions of the earth, They perish where they had their birth ; But love is indestructible....

...AN Till'?. lMMOETALtTY. His love was an eternal plant, whereof The root was fixcd in virtue's ground They sin who tell us love can die ; With life all other passions fly, All others arc but vanity. ln heaven ambltion cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Eartbly these...

...found throughout the whole range of contemporary English poets, than the well-known lines beginning, " They sin who tell us love can die ; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity." Roderick has been more praised than any of Southey's epics, nevertheless we suspect there are not many...

...assured that ours will thank us if we transfer the precious fragment to onr columns : — " They err who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly— All others are bnt vanity. In heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions...

...of existence — amidst pure and holy intelligences ! You remember Southey's beautiful lines : — ' They sin who tell us love can die ; With life all other passions fly — But love is indestructible, Its holy flame for ever burneth ; From heaven it comes, to heaven retumeth...

...something. The motto to one of the poems ri vetted her attention. She read it twice: — " They Bin who tell us Love can die, With life all other passions fly j All others arc but vanity ! In heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of holl —...

...it true — true as though God uttered it in every human ear — that true affection never dies. " They sin who tell us love can die — With life all other passions fly ; But this — a flame that ever burneth — From heaven it came, to heaven returneth." And it returns...

...not well believe that it now springs, immortal, as his redeemed, transformed and glorious nature. " They sin who tell us love can die ; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity ; " " But love ie indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth, , From Heaven it came, to Heaven...

...This moment hath to him restored By Death alone to others given, The early lost, the long-deplored. " They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All otherg are but vanity. In Heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of Hell; Earthiy...

...if it were true, it would not prove the writer's deductions to be correct. We hold with SOOTHEY: ' THEY sin, who tell us love can die ; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity : But love is indestructible : Its holy flame forever burneth : From heaven it came — to heaven returned...