How she is missed from out each spot where she so late has been;
  Her silent chamber thrills the heart with keenest throbs of pain;
  Her music, too, of voice and string seems ling’ring on the ear,
  Only to fill the heart with woe that its sound ye cannot hear.

  How long life looked to her; its far and distant day
  Seemed like the rosy path she trod, and perfumed all the way;
  No tear but those for others’ woe had ever dimmed her eye,
  For her youth was cloudless as the morn, and bright as noonday sky.

  But ah! how soon the light is quenched that shone so sweetly here—­
  And oh! if love to God was hers, it glows in a brighter sphere! 
  That strange, mysterious spark of mind, shrined in the frailest clay,
  Now flames amid the seraph band in a “house” that will not decay.

  This world we know is full of tombs, covered with fairest flowers;
  But yet how soon we all forget, and think them rosy bowers! 
  We build our hopes of pleasure here, select a fairy spot;
  But Death soon proves to our pierced souls that he has not forgot!

  Oh! wisely, wisely let us learn that this earth is not our home;
  ’Tis but the trial-place of life—­a race that’s swiftly run:—­
  Our precious hours are links of gold in that mysterious chain,
  That fastens to our life above its pleasure or its pain.

  Reclining on a Saviour’s arm, we then walk safely here;
  He whispers holiest words to us, and wipes the falling tear: 
  If Death appears, He takes away his cruel, poisonous sting—­
  Then for a home of perfect bliss He plumes the spirit’s wing.

* * * * *

THE JUDGE; A DRAMA OF AMERICAN LIFE.

BY MRS. SARAH J. KANE.

PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.

  JUDGE BOLTON. 
  HENRY BOLTON, son of the Judge. 
  DR. MARGRAVE, REV.  PAUL GODFREY, Classmates and friends of the Judge. 
  PROF.  OLNEY, Teacher of a Classical School. 
  FREDERICK BELCOUR, son of Madame Belcour. 
  CAPT.  PAWLETT, friend of Fred. Belcour. 
  LANDON, Counselor at Law. 
  SHERIFF. 
  CLERK OF THE COURT. 
  CRIER OF THE COURT. 
  OFFICERS OF THE COURT. 
  TWELVE JURYMEN. 
  DENNIS O’BLARNEY, servant of Dr. Margrave. 
  MICHAEL MAGEE, servant of the Judge. 
  CITIZENS, MESSENGERS OF THE COURT, WATCHMEN, &c. 
  MADAME BELCOUR, a widow, cousin of the Judge, and presiding in his
      household. 
  BELINDA, daughter of Madame Belcour. 
  LUCY, daughter of the Judge. 
  MRS. OLNEY, wife of Prof.  Olney. 
  ISABELLE, reputed daughter of Prof.  Olney. 
  RUTH, waiting-maid at Judge Bolton’s.

SCENE—­partly in the city; partly at Rose Hill, near the city.

TIME OF ACTION, twenty-four hours, commencing at 10 o’clock, A.M., and ending at the same hour on the following day.