1 The carrier-pigeon, it is well known, flies at an elevated pitch, in order to surmount every obstacle between her and the place to which she is destined

2 "I have left mine heritage; have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies."-Jeremiah, xii. 7.

3 "Do not disgrace the throne of thy glory."—Jer. xiv. 21.

4"The Lord called thy name a green olive-tree; fair, and of goodly fruit," &c.-Jer. xi. 16.

WHO IS THE MAID?

ST. JEROME'S LOVE.
(AIR.-BEETHOVEN.)

WHO is the Maid my spirit seeks,
Through cold reproof and slander's blight?
Has she Love's roses on her cheeks?
Is hers an eye of this world's light?
No-wan and sunk with midnight prayer
Are the pale looks of her I love;
Or if, at times, a light be there,
Its beam is kindled from above.

I chose not her, my heart's elect,

From those who seek their Maker's shrine

"Take away he battlements; for they are not the Lord's."-Jer. v. 10.

"Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they shall bury in Tophet till there be no place.”—Jer. vii. 32.

These lines were suggested by a passage in one of St. Jerome's Letters, replying to some calumnious remarks that had been circulated respecting his intimacy with the matron Paula:-"Numquid me vestes serica, nitentes gemmæ, picta

tronarum, quæ meam possit edomare mentem, nisi lugens atque jejunans, fletu pene cæcata.”—Epist. “ Si tibi putem.”