robe
Within my feeble hand;
While my whole soul went out in deep
And passionate appeal,
That faith like his might set within
My babes' pure hearts its seal.

NOTES.

_Page_ 66.

'T is said the radiant stars of night,
When viewed through different air,
Appear not all in golden robes,
But various colors wear.

In Syria, where the atmosphere is less humid than ours, the whole
heavens are said to sparkle at night, as with various-colored gems.

_Page_ 94.

MADELINE.--_A Legend of the Mohawk._--The events narrated in
this poem occurred during the struggle of the American Colonies for
Independence, immediately after the battle of Saratoga, in a small
village on the banks of the Mohawk.

_Page_ 99.

By the ruthless Cow-boys slain.

"Cow-boys" was the term applied to the corps of freebooters attached to
the British army.

_Page_ 127.

And the gall-drops were poured from the drawn-sword of Death.

According to a Rabbinical tradition, gall-drops fall from the suspended
sword of the Angel of Death on the lips of the dying.

_Page_ 128.

The cherubim drooped and the pomegranates lay
In the dust with the lamps that had glimmered all day;
The censers, and altars, the ashes must claim,
Though their unalloyed gold be the gold of Parvaim.

2 Chronicles, 3:10: "And in the most holy house he made two Cherubims of
image-work, and overlaid them with gold."

1 Kings, 7:20: "And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates
also above: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about
upon the other chapiter."

2 Chronicles, 4:20: "Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps and the
censers were of gold."

2 Chronicles, 3:6: "And he garnished the house with precious stones for
beauty, and the gold was gold of Parvaim."

_Page_ 129.

On pillar, and pommel, and chapiter high.

2 Chronicles, 4:11,12: "And Hiram finished the work that he was to make
for King Solomon for the house of God."

"To wit: the two pillars and the pommels, and the chapiters which were
on the top of the two pillars."

_Page_ 129.

The Cedars of Lebanon thrilled with the wail,
That swept, like a torrent, Jehoshaphat's vale.

It is related by Josephus, that when the Jews perceived the
conflagration of the Holy House, they broke out into such groans and
outcries that all the mountains round about the city