2.
So Heavenly Guardian Occupy the Skies
The Pre-Existent God, Omnipotent Allwise
He can Surpassingly Immortalize thy Theme
And Permanent thy Soul Celestial Supreme.
3.
When Gracious Refulgence, bids the Grave Resign
The Creators Nursing Protection be Thine
Thus each Perspiring AEther will Joyfully Rise
Transcendantly Good Supereminently Wise.
W.C.
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THE LETTER B.
"Or like a lamb, whose dam away is fet,
He treble _baas_ for help, but none can get."
SIDNEY.
Its pronunciation is supposed to resemble the bleating of a sheep;
upon which account the Egyptians represented the sound of this letter
by the figure of that animal. It is also one of those letters which
the eastern grammarians call _labial_, because the principal organs
employed in its pronunciation are the lips. With the ancients, B as a
numeral stood for 300. When a line was drawn above it, it stood for
3,000, and with a kind of accent below it, for 200.
P.T.W.
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A DOUBLE.
(_To the Editor._)
I read your story of the cherry-coloured cat. The clergyman with whom
I was educated astonished me when a child, by saying, when at his
living at ----, he preached in a cherry-coloured gown and a
_rose_-coloured wig (white.)
AN OLD ONE.
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PROPHECY OF LORD BYRON.
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