share
With thankful and contented thought?

Though destined to the couch of pain,
Though torn from pleasures once too dear,
Around that couch shall still remain
The love that every pain can cheer.

"Peace, wing'd in fairer worlds above,"
Has ta'en thy form away from this;
Has beckon'd thee to seats of glory,
To realms of everlasting bliss.

[John Bowring: Benevolence (hymn), stz. 2, lines 5-8:

Peace, winged in fairer worlds above,
Shall bend her down to brighten this,
When all man's labour shall be love
And all his thoughts--a brother's bliss.]

So rich in piety and worth,
Too soon, alas! lamented one,
Thou hast been call'd away from earth,
And heaven has claim'd thee for its own.

[James G. Brooks and Mary E. Brooks: To Cora (in _The Rivals of
Este, and Other Poems_, 1829), stz. 3, lines 1-4:

Cora! thou wast not formed for earth:
So bright thy angel beauty shone,
So rich in innocence and worth,
That heaven has claimed thee for its own.]

CHAPTER III.

"'T is by degrees the youthful mind expands; and every day,
Soft as it rolls along, shows some new charm;
Then infant reason grows apace, and calls
For the kind hand of an assiduous care."
"Delightful task, to rear the tender thought,
To pour the new instruction o'er the mind,
To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the glowing breast."

[Thomson: _Seasons_: end of "Spring":
By degrees,
The human blossom blows; and every day,
Soft as it rolls along, shows some new charm,
The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom.
Then infant reason grows apace, and calls
For the kind hand of an assiduous care.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought.
To teach the young idea how to shoot,
To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind,
To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the glowing breast.]

The period at length arrived, when it became necessary that Alida should
receive further instruction in the various branches of female
literature. With this view, her father thought proper to change the
place of her studies from the village school to the New-York Seminary.

It was his idea that nothing afforded so pleasing a prospect as the
graces of beauty, aided by wisdom