The music that endears,
And makes this chill’d existence tolerable? 
Yet will I not such selfishness—­’tis well;
I hear, I hear a happier, holier swell
      From out the eternal spheres! 
      I do defy thee, Death! 
Why flee me, like a debtor in arrears? 
To weary out the agony of years,
With nothing but the bitter brine of tears,
      And scarcer existing breath.

      My soul is growing strong,
And somewhat fretful with its house of clay,
And waiting quite impatiently to lay
It off, and soar in light away,
      To hymn th’ “eternal song.” 
      This is a cowardice
Perhaps—­a deep, mean selfishness withal. 
That whets our longings in the spirit’s thrall
To lay aside these trials, and forestall
      The hours of Paradise.

      Thou wise, Eternal God! 
Oh, let me not offend Thy great design! 
Teach thou thy erring mortal to resign,
Make me be patient, let me not repine
      Beneath this chast’ning rod;
      Though storm and tempest whelm,
And beat upon this naked barque, ’tis well;
And I shall smile upon their heaviest swell—­
Hush, rebel thoughts!—­my heart be calm and still,
      The Master’s at the helm!

HENRY VANDERFORD.

Henry Vanderford, editor and journalist, was born at Hillsborough, Caroline county, Md., December 23, 1811.  His maternal ancestors were from Wales, his paternal from Holland.  He was educated at Hillsborough Academy, a celebrated institution at that time, having pupils from the adjoining counties of Queen Anne’s and Talbot.  He acquired a knowledge of the art of printing in the office of the Easton Star, Thomas Perrin Smith, proprietor.  From 1835 to 1837 he published the Caroline Advocate, Denton, Md., the only paper in the county, and neutral in politics, though the editor was always a decided Democrat, and took an active part in the reform movement of 1836, which resulted in the election of the “Glorious Nineteen” and the Twenty-one Electors.  The press and type of the Advocate were transferred in 1837 to Centreville, Queen Anne’s county, where he founded the Sentinel, the first Democratic paper published in that county, in January, 1838.  He was appointed for three successive years by Governor Grason chief judge of the Magistrate’s Court, but declined the office.  In 1840 he was appointed Deputy Marshal for Queen Anne’s, and took the census of that county in that year.  In 1842 he sold the Sentinel and removed to Baltimore, where, three years later, he resumed his profession and founded The Ray, a weekly literary and educational journal, and the subsequent year published the Baltimore Daily News, and the Weekly Statesman, in company with Messrs. Adams and Brown, under the firm of Adams, Vanderford & Brown.  The News and Statesman were Democratic