CONCLUSION, DAB

Confidence and affectionate respect are the natural
consequence and sure reward of diligence, punctuality,
and Christian love. A gay procession of youth moved
along the serpentine walk towards the spring, and at —
the shady spot called Thermopyle the festive arch
presented itself, with the initials of the bridegroom and
bride in letters ingeniously wreathed of evergreens and
flowers. In a rustic framework of the same were dis-
played the two pictures, representing—one, Bingen on
the Rhine, and on the other, the Oaks.

“Ah, my young master,” said King Donald, “ Did I
not tell you in the old garden that the day would come
when you would feel as much at home in 1 this country
as ever-you did on the Rhine?” )

Just then Ludwig’s trained company of musicians
broke out in the strains of the famous German song of
Arndt’s, Was «st des Deutschen Vaterland.

Their pronunciation was tolerable, and their execu-
tion admirable. At the closing stanzas tears were in
the eyes of all the Germans present, and Charlotte and
Ursula could scarcely cease weeping for joy. The verses
alluded to may be thus imitated :—

‘‘ Where, therefore, lies the German land?
Name now at last that mighty land!
Where’er resounds the German tongue,
Where German hymns to God are sung,
There, gallant brother, take thy stand!
That is the German’s fatherland.

That is the land, the land of lands,
Where vows bind less than clasped hands,