True Nobles and Fleroes. A3

can exult; and no wonder we sometimes
hear them break out in a triumphant cry
whilst passing away. It is a glorious victory
truly; for by the first Adam came death,
and long had he held dominant sway in the
world, he had laid low his millions, and the
earth was strewn with his victims, rivers of
tears had been shed over hopes blighted,
bright lives cut short; but, by the second
Adam, thank God, even by Jesus, the last
enemy hath been crippled, his power to hurt
destroyed, and we can exclaim, “Thanks be
to God who giveth us the victory, through
our Lord Jesus.”

“Ts that a deathbed where the Christian lies?
Yes; but not his—for death itself there dies.”

Oh! how true the motto on the old sun-
dial—
: “JT am a shadow, so art thou /”

As Edmund Burke said, “‘ What shadows
we are, and what shadows we pursue.”

Very soon will our conflict here be o’er—
the Lord will come; or the longest life closed. —

“ But why should we fear the beautiful angel Death,
Who waits us at the portal of the skies,