A VISION OF HEAVEN.

A FRAGMENT.

"The Heavens were opened, and I saw visions." EZEKIEL i. ver. 1.

'Juvat, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodiernæ vitæ mi nutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes."

T. BURNET.

A VISION OF HEAVEN.

ONE summer evening, from the molten sky When radiance came to beautify the world, By Fancy led, along a noiseless vale

I roam'd, and trod the earth with deep delight, Felt in the soul, and in the eye reveal'd.—

'Twas one of those immortal hours, when man, Unheedful of the jarring world, feels thoughts Within him too sublime for words,- -a sense Of that Divinity which breathes o'er all, Making Creation one vast temple seem,

Where shadows of His glory are enshrined!

Thus felt I at this balmy hour: Above

Magnificently hung the skyey dome;

Along the concave floated fairy isles;

And where the sun stood burning on the brim

Of ocean, the horizon wound its curve,

Festoon'd with clouds of beauty, fresh and white

As sea-foam in the sun.

Beneath the span

Of heaven, all earth lay languishing in light;
Her streamlets with a bee-like murmur ran,
And while the trees, like living creatures, waved
Their plumage on the wind, the bird and breeze
Together hymn'd, and harmonized the air.

Pensive awhile along the balmy vale

I roam'd, then sat delighted on a mound

Green-tress'd, and glitt'ring in the dizzy rays