The Yale Literary Magazine (Volume 4) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: RECOLLECTED MUSIC. A .-in1 vn breaks forth; hark! yes it is that well remember'd tone, Awak'ning with its echoes aweet, a rapture long unknown: The voice of other days seem blent in that deep melting strain; The sound which but in Fancy's ear can charm the soul again. Like sudden hum of waterfall, the way-worn pilgrims hear, While journeying through the wilderness, all desolate and drear: Or as the gush of airy harp at summer-day's farewell, Soft wraps the heart the melodies in that enchanting swell; And stealing o'er the pensive thought, what power mysterious falls, What beauteous visions of the past remembrance bright recalls In all their life and freshness rise the known, the loved of yore, And beam those faces, long since cold, with smiles that once they wore. In wild imagination spring the scenes of youth's fair day, Ere frigid wax'd the fervent heart, or hope had known decay; Ere sad experience chased the dreams that fill'd the ardent mind, And woke the wretched man to mourn the ruins left behind. Flow on sweet strains ! ah, now 'tis hush'd, the fitful sound has gone, Like Peri's song o'er starlit main ere dark the storm comes on; Brief as those scenes whose ecstasy it waken'd in the heart: So all our joys, with transient ray, just glimmer and depart. PAPACJf. Much has been said and much written at the present day, against the Roman Catholic religion. Not many years have elapsed, since there was general excitement upon this subject throughout the religious community. Zealous partisans were not wanting, who seemed to favor the opening of a regular crusade for the entire extermination of that venerable (venerable for its antiquity, we mean, ) and once powerful sect. The old differences and disputes, that once divided the Christian church, s...