Sweet the young nurse, with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence; Sweet when the lost arrive; Sweet the musician's ardor beats, While his vague mind's in quest of sweets, The choicest flowers to hive.

Young to my soul the ancient need returns, Immortal in my heart the ardor burns; My altar fires replenished from above Thank Thee that I can love!

Well might the poet exclaim: "What magnanimity!May ne'er again Unkind returns thy generous ardor chill, Nor causeless censure give thy bosom pain, Nor thankless hearts reward thy good with ill!

Spiritualists constantly reproach investigators of Spiritualism with faint-heartedness and lack of patience; they allege that at the very first rebuff all investigating ardor cools, and that one failure is deemed sufficient to condemn a whole system.

] Through his thrill'd nerves forgotten ardors dart, 390 And

For plunder YOU, and we for freedom fight, Her cause divine with generous ardor fires, And every bosom glows as she inspires!

shall the spells of ease Thy friendship chain, thine ardor freeze!

I feel new rapture, hallow'd and intense, Through every nerve and vein with ardor glowing.

the young prince appears another man; touched by an object so worthy, his great soul displays all its sublimity; his courage waxes with the dangers it has to encounter, and his penetration becomes keener as his ardor increases.

And with celestial ardor swift I bear upon my hands the gift Of heavenly Prudence here!