Do I live now like him, Under this Tyrant King, that languishing Hears his sad Bell, and sees his Mourners?

As Emily passed through the familiar walks, she came suddenly to a grave in the remote corner of the cemetery, beside which sat a solitary mourner.

The minister goes stiffly in As if the house were his, And he owned all the mourners now, And little boys besides;

If ever any music was invented for the express purpose of making mourners as distracted as any external thing can make them, it is the bitter, hopeless, unrestrained wail of this tune.

The appropriate text, "He that believeth on me shall never die," comforted the grief-stricken mourners.

"I thought Ace would crowd the mourners too hard," said the captain.

To ease every burden, and let the oppressed go free, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and what the very poorest can docomfort the mourner; to nurse the sick, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and so keep ourselves unspotted from the selfishness of the worldThis is that true Religion, acceptable in the sight of God the Fatherand happy he who has so served God.

Clawbonny had no impertinent eyes to drive a mourner to his closet, and I felt as if it were impossible to breathe unless I could obtain the freedom of the open air.

"Ah!" ejaculated the mourner.

" No need was there to employ professional mourners to make a wailing; the teachers and scholars, and the hundreds of poor men and women who had learned to love her, wept aloud for her.

This act of devotion enabled the mourners to maintain an appearance of greater tranquillity until the graves were filled.

"Enter a young mourner!" says Algy, facetiously, in unkind allusion to the gloom of my appearance, which is perhaps heightened by the black-silk gown I wear.

On comparing notes she discovered that, like herself, he had come on Beaumaroy's urgent invitation and, moreover, that he was engaged also to come on afterwards to Tower Cottage, where Beaumaroy was to entertain the chief mourners at a mid-day repast.

I told him that I was confident that the children would be no trouble to him, if he only told them to follow the mourners two and two, and that it was unnecessary for any one to interfere with them further than shewing them the way back to the school.

Another loafer contributed an anecdote of how he had tied ropes to a dead negro so as to make the corpse sit up in bed and frighten the mourners.

His talk is how many mourners he furnished with gowns at his father's funeral, how many messes, how rich his coat is, and how ancient, how great his alliance; what challenges he hath made and answered; what exploits he did at Calais or Newport; and when he hath commended others' buildings, furnitures, suits, compares them with his own.

After holding the vast congregation spell-bound for more than an hour in the delivery of the sermon, the old man, with locks as white as the driven snow, came down from the stand, and, standing on a seat in the Altar, began to invite mourners.

"And sure the dawning ray that lights the steep, "And slowly wanders o'er the purple wave; "Will shew me where his sacred relics sleep, "Will lead his mourner to her destin'd grave.

We're buryin' a frawg and we need some more mourners.

" Mr. Balch here endeavoured to assist in pacifying the two little mourners.

How heartlessly they pass that mourner by, The poor lone Widow, with her death-struck load.

Where'er admission thou canst gain, Where'er thy phiz can pierce, At once the Doctor they retain, The mourners and the hearse.

She was always pointing the mourner past the floods, to the high place above themteaching him to sing even amid the waves and billows"the Lord will command His loving-kindness"; "I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance."

"It is for you, isn't it?" pursued the mourner in an inflexible voice.

"Not under the present circumstances," retorted the mourner; he and the ghost both coughing with the colds which they had taken from standing still so long in such a damp place"not under the present circumstances," he repeated, wildly, making a fierce pass at the spectre with the skeleton, and then dropping the latter to the ground in nerveless despair.