"A belt of darkness seems to bar the way

Long, low, and distant, where the Life to come
Touches the Life that is. The Flood of Years
Rolls toward it near and nearer.
It must pass
That dismal barrier. What is there beyond?
Hear what the wise and good have said."

W. C. BRYANT.

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57,

ERRATA.

3, one line from last, for "Ramsey," read "Ramsay." for "whispers," read "Whispers." 112, last line, for "Cuningham," read "Cunningham." 139, line 12, for "Dwell there," read "Dwell thou." mere." 263, first line, for "more," read "

sujeel of which nothing definite is known. Without taking into account the numerous works devoted to the theme, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that one can scarcely look through a volume, be it verse, biography, or travel, without coming across some allusion, direct or indirect, to futurity.

As for the poets, they may be said to have one foot on earth and one in heaven. Not only the devout ones, such as Milton, Spenser, Crashaw, Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Wordsworth; nor only those whose muse has at any rate been baptized in the waters of Jordan, like Sir Philip Sidney, Joseph Beaumont, Herrick, Coleridge, Tennyson, or Browning, but poets