Across thy stormy gulf, Biscay.
In the sun the bright waves glisten;
Rising slow with solemn swell,
Hark, hark, what sound unwonted? Listen--
Listen--'tis the Sabbath bell.

It tells of ties which duties sever,
Of hearts so fondly knit to thee,
Kind hands, kind looks, which, wanderer, never
Thy hand shall grasp, thine eye shall see.
It tells of home and all its pleasures,
Of scenes where memory loves to dwell,
And bids thee count thy heart's best treasures
Far, far away, that Sabbath bell.

Listen again! Thy wounded spirit
Shall soar from earth and seek above
That kingdom which the blest inherit,
The mansions of eternal love.
Earth and her lowly cares forsaking,
Bemoaned too keenly, loved too well,
To faith and hope thy soul awaking,
Thou hear'st with joy that Sabbath bell."

By the 28th of September, the vessel was in sight of the Temple of
Jaghernauth, and on the 3rd of October was anchored close to the island
of Saugor.

All through his voyage and residence in India, the Bishop kept a journal
of the doings and scenes of each day, full of interesting sketches, both
in pen and pencil. The beauty of the villages on the Hooghly, "the
greenhouse-like smell and temperature of the atmosphere," and the gentle
countenances and manners of the natives, struck him greatly, as he says,
"with a very solemn and earnest wish that I might in some degree, however
small, be enabled to conduce to the spiritual advantage of creatures so
goodly, so gentle, and now so misled and blinded. '_Angili forent si
essent Christiani_.'"

On the 10th of October the Heber family entered their temporary abode in
the Fort at Calcutta, and were received by two Sepoy sentries and a long
train of servants in cotton dresses and turbans, one of them with a long
silver stick, another with a mace. There, too, were assembled the
neighbouring clergy--alas! far too few--and the next day the Bishop was
installed in his cathedral.

Then began a life of very severe labour, for not only had the arrears of
episcopal business after the interregnum to be made up, but the
deficiency of clergy rendered the Sunday duties very heavy; and the
Bishop took as full a share of them as any working parish priest; and
even though he authorized the Church Missionary Society's teachers to
read prayers and to preach, the lack of sufficient ministrations was
great. Bishop's Co