You would have made a new ideal of St. John Rivers, who was infinitely the best material of the two, and possibly gone on to your dying day in the belief that his cold and hard soul was only the adamant of the seraph, encouraged in that belief by his real and high principle, a thing that went for sounding brass with that worldly-wise little philosopher, Jane, because it did not act more practically on his inborn traits.

Did you ever hear any human trait of his noticed? Weren't you brought up to regard him as a species of special seraph, a sublime and stainless figure, inseparable from a grand manner and a scroll?

That dream hath vanished, and my hope is flown; For he who fain a seraph would pursue Wingless, hath cast words to the winds, and dew On stones, and gauged God's reason with his own.

When God went back to heaventhe living God Rode he the heavens upon a fiery car? Waved seraph-wings along his glorious road? Stood still to wonder each bright wandering star? Upon the cross he hung, and bowed his head, And prayed for them that smote, and them that curst; And, drop by drop, his slow life-blood was shed, And his last hour of suffering was his worst.

He mightn’t freeze to the seraphs, Or chum with the cherubim, But if ever them seraph johnnies Get a-poking it like at him— Well!

~Tildy in the Choir.~ Lines that ripple, notes that dance, Foreign measures brought from France, Reaching with a careless ease From high C towhere you please, Clever, frivolous, and gay These will answer in their way; But that tune of long ago Stately, solemn, somewhat slow (Dear "Old Hundred"that's the air) Will outrank them anywhere; Once it breathed a seraph's fire.

385 "Come to my arms," with seraph voice she cries, "Thy vows are heard, benignant Nymph!

The Spirits of the Good, who bend from high Wide o'er these earthly scenes their partial eye, 465 When first, array'd in VIRTUE'S purest robe, They saw her HOWARD traversing the globe; Saw round his brows her sun-like Glory blaze In arrowy circles of unwearied rays; Mistook a Mortal for an Angel-Guest, 470 And ask'd what Seraph-foot the earth imprest.

And now a fourth with seraph-beauty bright Descends, accosts them, and outshines the light!

good woman, perfect lady, Madonna. model, paragon &c (perfection) 650; good example; hero, heroine, demigod, seraph, angel; innocent &c 946; saint &c (piety) 987; benefactor &c 912; philanthropist &c 910; Aristides^; noble liver^, pattern.

[Beneficent spirits] Angel N. angel, archangel; guardian angel; heavenly host, host of heaven, sons of God; seraph, seraphim; cherub, cherubim.

Dante speaks of the seraph as "that soul in Heaven which is most enlightened."

In the famous vision of St. Francis of Assisi, at the time that he received his stigmata, the Seraph appeared to him with two wings raised above his head, with two wings stretched out for flight, and with two wings covering his whole body.

In uttermost terror he opened the book and ran over the lines, and straightway the fiend appearednot seraph-like as when he appeared formerly, but dark, hideous, and gigantic, with hissing snakes coiling around his brows.

His dirty old hand might shake and quaver, but once the neck of the fiddle rested between thumb and forefinger, the seraph who made his odd abiding-place in old Reinhardt's soul sang out in swelling tones and spoke of heavenly things, and of the Paradise where we might live, if we were but willing.

' On sounding pinions here the youth withdrew 240 The sage stood wondering as the seraph flew.

Nor second He that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy; The secrets of the abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

What once was clay, suff'ring, distress'd, Subject to pain and ire, A happy spirit, with the bless'd, Now tunes a seraph's lyre.

And we think of Milton among the triumphant royalists when we read of the Seraph Abdiel "faithful found among the faithless."

Such is that conceit which met with censure at the time: "Seraph and cherub, careless of their charge, And wanton, in full ease now live at large; Unguarded leave the passes of the sky, And all dissolved in hallelujahs lie.

O bear me on thy seraph wing, And teach my weak obsequious muse to sing.

The figure of the Virgin, crowned with the twelve stars, and relieved from a background of golden light, is standing on a crescent sustained by three cherubs beneath; she seems to float between heaven and earth; on either side is a seraph, with hands folded and looks upraised in adoration.

Presently this slightly coquettish, yet very good and lovely little beingthis seraph from one of Fra Angelica's pictures, endowed with a frailty or two of humanityfound herself the heroine of a trying scene.

AHOLIBAMAH, a grand daughter of Cain, beloved by a seraph, who at the Flood bore her away to another planet.

It drove me hither from my calm asylum; It lures me forwardin a seraph's shape I see it near, I see it nearer floating It draws, it pulls me with a godlike power, And, lo, the abyss!

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