CHURCHES IN BOSTON. 131 Yet there are graves, whose rudely-shapen sod Bears the fresh footprints where the sexton trod, Graves where the verdure has not dared to shoot, Where the chance wild-flower has not fixed its root, Whose slumbering tenants, dead without a name, The eternal record shall at length proclaim Pure as the holiest in the long array Of hooded, mitred, or tiaraed clay. The air is hushed; the street is holy ground; Hark! The sweet bells renew their welcome sound; As, one by one, awakes each silent tongue, The Chapel,* last of sublunary things That shocks our echoes with the name of King's, Whose bell, just glistening from the font and forge, Rolled its proud requiem for the second George, Solemn and swelling, as of old it rang, Flings to the wind its deep, sonorous clang;The simpler pile,† that, mindful of the hour When Howe's artillery shook its half-built tower, Wears on its bosom, as a bride might do, The iron breastpin which the "Rebels" threw, Wakes the sharp echoes with the quivering thrill Of keen vibrations, tremulous and shrill; *King's Chapel. The Church in Brattle Square. Aloft, suspended in the morning's fire, Crash the vast cymbals from the Southern spire;* The Giant, † standing by the elm-clad green, Child of the soil, whom fortune sends to range Where man and nature, faith and customs, change, Borne in thy memory, each remembered tone Mourns on the winds that sigh in every zone. When Ceylon sweeps thee with her perfumed breeze Through the warm billows of the Indian seas; And airy echoes ring the Sabbath peal! *The Old South Church. Park Street Church. Christ Church. LOVE, HOPE, AND FAITH. 133 Then, dim with grateful tears, in long array Rise the fair town, the island-studded bay, Home, with its smiling board, its cheering fire, The half-choked welcome of the expecting sire, The mother's kiss, and, still if aught remain, Our whispering hearts shall aid the silent strain. Ah, let the dreamer o'er the taffrail lean, To muse unheeded, and to weep unseen; Fear not the tropic's dews, the evening's chills, His heart lies warm among his triple hills! LOVE, HOPE, AND FAITH. SYLVESTER JUDD. BLESS, holy Love! our calm retreat; The hearts thy grace and power illume. O Hope divine! support our souls; The mountain hides us from the East; BISHOP HUBERT. BERNARD BARTON. 'Tis the hour of even now, And with meditative brow, Seeking truths as yet unknown, Bishop Hubert walks alone. Fain would he, with earnest thought, Learn the destinies of man, And creation's wonders scan. And further yet, from these would trace Hidden mysteries of grace, Dive into the deepest theme, Solve redemption's glorious scheme. Far he has not roamed, before, On the solitary shore, He hast found a little child, By its seeming play beguiled. BISHOP HUBERT. In the drifted, barren sand It has scooped, with baby hand, From a hollow shell, the while, Hear the smiling Bishop ask, "What can mean such infant task?' "Foolish infant," Hubert cries, Soon that child, on ocean's brim,. While a voice is heard to say, What must thy researches be? وو 135 |