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Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, Tuesday, January 31, 1860.

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—. wie And the sacred soi! beneath him cast upon his heary hea L— the spire ws borne In one of those quaint antique towers
yf if c r ut ii i ¢ , Named the servants and the camels,—stmmoned Haroun from the oe Normandy, Coutances, it was first fully developed ; and

6 . dead, — it is eurious to see how in this instance its roof-orizin was

en | Clutched thé uneonscions palms around him, as if they were living mer, gti]] remen.bered : for it hag tall, gabled garret-windows
And before him, in their order, rose his buried train again. risi ag from its base, eonnected by rude cross-hare to the slepe

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ABDEL-HASSAN.

(From the Atlantic Monthly for January 1860 )

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i * What affects the manof sorrow? Speak,—for speaking is relief.”

men wooden shingles of the house-roof.

Then he answered, rising slowly to that aged stranger's knee—
¢ of evlamity are made apparent after long intervals «Thom beholdest Abdel-Hassan! They were urine, and [ am he !”

Cd gy ree veal the deep remediai force that underlics

of time. The sure years re

os . Wondering, stood they all aemind him, and a reverent silence kept,
all fact. — EusRso>

| While, amidst them, Abdel-Hacean lifted ap his voice and wept.
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Joy and grief, and faith and triumph. mingled in his flowing tears; soine of their camt aniles, as on those of Venice and Cremona.

Refluent on his patient spirit rolled the tide of sixty years.

Appet-Fassay oer the Desert journeyed with his caravan,—
Many a richly laden camel, many a faithful eerving-man.
But he spire, though an efective, was as yet an unambitiou
l strne‘ure,—-scarcely more thanyan exaltation or an apotheosis
of thereof. Fora long time it continued to be merely a
supplementary addition in wood to the solid masonry of the
tower, and in the thirteenth. fourteenth, and fifteenth centu-
ries tas oftcn added to substructures of the tenth, eleventh,

F owed alike the man and beast; a wie
And befere the hat papguaen ape er the Hast. | As the past and present blended, lo! his larger rision saw,
For the power of Abdel-assan was (he wot | In his own life’s emmpensation, Nature's universai law.

It wae now the twelfth day’s journey, but its closing did not bring

| God is good, O reverend stranger ! He hath taught me of His ways
Abdel-Hassan and |is servants to the long-expected spring. and 18 good, Q g I ys,

By this great and crowning lesson, in the evening of my days,
From the ancient line of travel they had wandered far away,

And at erening, fa nt and weary, on & waste of Desert lay. Keep the treasure,—T have p'enty,—end am richer that I see

| Life ascend, through change and cvil, to that perfect light to be,—
Fainting men and {amished eamels stretched them round the master’s |

tent; , . ,
For the water-skint were empty, and the dates were near'y spent.

Surely it is very dull in us, out of our present enlighten-

“In each woe a blessing folded, from all Inse a erestor gain.
Joy and hope from fearand sorrow, rest and peace from toil and pain. a ; o : " ,
bay < y . ment, to continue to distinguikh the medimva! times as the

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* God is great! His name is mighty! He is victor in the strife ! Dark Aces, 29 if they were glimmering and ghostly, and
ped about ia them blindly, living in a sort of dusky
———_—_—_—_++e= + —___- ——_—- romance of fendality. Did you ever study De Ja Roche's
ve ‘incarnation of Medial Art in the Hemicycle,—that long

ABOUT SPIRES. ‘saintly robe with its atill and serious folds, that fair dreamy

’ FP gee . face, thes> upturned eyes, * the homes of silont prayer,” the

Wass the children of Shem said one to another at Babel, ' contemplative repose ? It i tfuly an exquisite idealization ;
| Go to, let us build usa city and a tower whose top shall’ Fo there is something wanting. I believe the piety of those
wo sat teine ‘reach unto heaven,” they typified a remarkable trait of the '11,+5 was rather a passion than a sentiment. Their “ beeuty
< Recon bests nndanard the Coa eee, ell oak Custpriag™ human mind,—a desire for a tangible an material exponent’ of holiness” was rather 2n active emotiona! impulse than a
| of itself in its most heroic moods. In the earlier ages of the passive spiritualization, and waa incomplete withort a mate-

| world, when humanity, as it were, was becoming conscious 5j,] expression, a tangible demonstration of itself. Like the

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ig bdel-Hass: the Desert lay apart, ;
All the night, as Abdel-Hassan on the De y For He bringeth Good from Evil, and from Death com matideth ‘Life !

Nothing broke the | :feless silence but the throbbing of his heart: men gro

All the night he hesrd it beating, while his sleepless, anxious eyes~
Watebed the shining constellations wheeling onward through the skios.

When the glowing orbs, reesding, paled before the coming dsy,
Abdei- Hassen calied his servants aud devovtly knelt to pray.

Then his words were few and solemn to the leader of his train: —
“Thirty men and eighty camels, Haroun, in thy care remain.

Mounted on his strongest camel, Abdel. Hassan rode away,

While bis (aithful followers watched bim passing, in the blaze of day,

Like s speck upon the Desert, like a moving — — P

Where the fiery skies Wore sweeping down to meet the burning sand. eee a ROP ht ee i c 1°, ;
| Spirit of enterprise which in our own Gay mete forth ‘They were the very blossoming of the tree of knowledge.

| inquiring hands into unexplored realms of physical and in-/ This was, indeed, an unenlighténed, perhaps a euperstitious

llee | heing i ack», ledweee in the enoi if sue na 2 z A. - ts a nae
| telleectual being, and acknow!edges in the spoils of such search principle of worship; bat it wagenthusiastic, self-sacrificing

Passed he then the'r far horizon, and beyond it rode alone; —

They alone, with Arab patience, lay within its faming sone.
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Day by day the servants waited, but the master never came,— r
) bier accents, calied on Allah’s bely name. wal i "4 “oy atieat ail amit taste : ‘a ; ;
Day by day, in feeb Jae ; “peers nee een ne ge with the acum “i Visible 1N- | hermit to the wildernces, the ascetic to the scourge and hair-
vasion Of bigh 8 ding into that sky Whien to them Was (4° ojoth shirt; but also led the warrior to the Holy Land, the

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bien AS i po tego ogee ett and ahystnreee: h 0 beggar to the castle hearth, and the workman to the building
7 ne bir h of these structures was not of the pract cai ne of the ' Ise of G d. It 13 no wonder that a religion horn

One by one they killed the camels, loathing still the pr fered food,
But in weakrese or im (rensy slaked their burning thirst in blood.

On unheeded Seaps of treasure rested each unconscious head ;
While, with pious care, the dying struggled to catomd the dead.
, n ‘ kind I i ; tons ¢ it y alit . . ° .
ted wee: ae with wage sine = me S Nn ac $f isigns, built upward. It is no wonder that out of the prosaic
| Towers thus became the boldest imaginable symbols of energy | olemonts of the roof it made the spiritual esrence of the spire

| rie he ir h Pour f tim the heeame! r¢ . Fs . a
fand power. And when, in the course of time. they became [yr we look throngh the whole tange of architectural firme

So they perished. Gaunt with famine, stil! did Harc un’s trusty hand
For his latest dead companion scoop sepalture in the sand.

Then be died: and pious Nature, where be lay so gaunt and grim,

Moved by her divine compaszion, did the same kind thing tor im. } eXizencies rd society, and . mee a I y the “ene of useful tn elassie or med-eval times, We aha'l find no one so indica-
nee »~ *hear ' ‘yy enn: noe pas 1 TreAencen’? " yor ola: . ’ . . - . * - 8
Earth upon ber burning bosom held him in his final rest, Nero pe ge Hw oa aircon Suis ogmized Aas CXpres: | tive of any human em-tion as this simp'e outline is of the
=e a . ‘ ‘ 4 4 ere ernie l arn nts ¢ " tire i ° et ° “* . bat od ¥
While the hot winds of the Desert piled the sand above his bresst.— | SIONS GI the more beroic — ents of human neture. highest of a!l emotions,—pra fer. Tt is a significant fact,

Founded in superadundant massiveness, and duit 19 pro- | that the sentiment of aspiration Is nowhere hinted at in Clas-

Onward in his Gery travel Abdel-Iassan beld bis way, Diemath’ tha iowa andi Wi die abl Ueesente
Yielding to the camel’s instinct, halting not, by night or day, strennen, ;
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and to outlive tradition. Oid age restores 1

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sie Art, and we look in vain for it in all prgan arcbitectures.
tO more than | ruse ; _— Lt ee TY oe or '
Till the faithful beat, exhausted in ber fearful journey, fell ; ug . os I ' . This is not surprising. The worshippe:s who built in those
bik Ve oie < , eS USTs ” nie 7 —3o-) te nri a! significance: ¢ ‘ per ne 12 erections hare ' - : '
With ber eye upon the palm-trees rising o’er the lonely weil: its primevai sigiilcan ¥ > and "y a 4 Bvier CI _— © echoola demonstrated there all the noblest ideas they werc
paseed wey Shu creams 1 in rutps, it ay paaeA FnSt. more espable of, —intellectual beauty. dignity, power, truth, chas-
rise ubeve the cust: mary uses 0: Diet, and to become 32 com- tity, courage, ar d ali the other virtues cherisho | in toieir

With a fa'nt, convul-ive struggle, and 2 feeble moan, she died,
While ber still surviving master lay unconscious by her sice.

anion for tempests and clouus. Dismantied, deserted, ane | thaotazies: bat their personal relations With any higher

Bo he lar until the erening, when a passing caravan bearing ’ ‘ - : : ;
ne las 5 . eagle caring, sobcre of existence, vague and valefined he sre, called
From the dead incumbering camel brought to life the dying man. * ef Tnecribed uron its visi ides ee ik ee ee - ran eens Gee
This} bE emt IO AR IN rn expression in thelr temn.es, and ovtaine! none.

-_ T ‘ } ’ oa} fainting head aie & te q . a 8 a ee a z < . *
Siowly mormured Aidei-Hassan, as they bathed bis me pare way Add chdeele Heed of the path: éf Are,” Vhe pyramidal form has ever posseseed pecthier fac inations
“25 '—they are nimbered with the dsacd . : ‘

All is lost, for all have perished they ar € for men, @ trom if@ simplicity, erendear, gad power, has

Nature lays claim to it, and with moss and ivy and eld, with

2 : ; eee * : been used in all agea with innumerable modifications in those
weeds and fiowera, she takes it to her bosom.

I, who bad such power and treasure but 3 single moon ago,
structtires whose object @Rs to l-yerese and overewe,—re In the

Now my life and poor subsistence to a stranger's bounty owe.

‘ a eee” we ae _— — “ Dring insensibly away ramids of Herp), tie imple oF tndm and MM xieo, and ie al
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“God is great iis name is mighty 556 © Vict im . 40 ad , From buwan thenghts and purposes,” e earile-t fonereal monamente. tt mveived a rude swmbo -
Stripped of pride and power and substance, He hath leit we faith an : : : gn ea ‘i ; > “ (ice, aaa
lite ."— we at length associate it with no achievements of man, and ism. which recommended ttelf tothe barbarous childhood of
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; \ 1} top: onatione. Bat 2 was not until the pyrannd wae sharpened and

ts masonery becomes venerable to as, as shape! by myster'-

Sixty years had Abdel-Hiassnn, since the stranger's frien 17 hand : oe G ye oe Titan i hllow niiatlien of taal pirttualized ince the spire that it gsined us completes: triumotl
Saved him from the burning Desert, lived and prospered in the lane; - . " : . over the secret emoriona of men The F dans insde the
set us for a while furget the tcdicnus reaitsms rround us : : ¥ AS ge
And his life of peaceful labor, in its pure and simple ways, ee oe » Lotos a: tn ca? ae eares aporoae: to it in the cheR-k __That myesterions people
For bis joes fuurfeld rezarved him, and a mighty length of days. ane Cas OF tae ar tne er a “ee T elt verv keenly the eugeestiveneas «of tie ovramital fore. anc
of Dis lo fcurte ' a » 2 ' -) a — " ‘i " eo, ‘ = Ss - - 7 7. "¢ ’
the wide waters, and behold. along the horizon, the “ dim pofned the langingevef ifs’sentimenty into some very beantifu
P f.tth and p ence cave hit iadem"s mural crown; . ‘ > Sy 2 ' is fb - , tend '
Biaty years of faith snd patience gave him wisdom 's ma . rich cities” printing themselves againat the morrins. Let expressions. “Vet between the matsoleums of Git. h and ths
Seas gad daaghters brcugit him Lenor with his riches and reoown ;
Fs ° 1s jiaten to rin y enimes that ne faint!y to us, and) werogigphic ahefie of Luxorand Karnac there «x sted a mod:-
Men bebeld his reverend aspect, and revered his blameless name; less those deep-toned utterances so fuil of the tenderness o ication, the intensity of whose mesa ey Were not pres 3
And in peace be dwelt with straugers, in the falhess of bis fame. antiete dave ant ton Ue ds of gray trait ons eae ey ee . ee d. Neither the civ {zation wor their relicion n-
, y at . — - , : quired such an expsn-nt; so they exhausted themselvea witi
Bat the heart of All -I-Hassen yearned, 2s yearns the heart f man, them ; for, iike lyres oi Awphion, at their sencd arose th . : rt f nay t seco Lar iy ’
Stili to die among his kiadred, ending life where it began. bell-bearing tower. which ma Je ciiics beauti‘ul and th he no La of bene ange i relr pic'ured monuliths.
: . pA eae & he eav moned sll lis household, and he gave the brief command,— people happy. O St. Chrysostom! there were a@her suiden! fc: ib mited of ine vleiees bok 00 dak 0b. amcammenecnence
. — ' ee rie M . - , a f t . . 2G ‘ 3 ‘ 4 vB 9 i 4 i perieaces
*Go and gatoer all : ur Substance ;—we cx part irom out tac .sne. moutis than thine that preached by ine B sphorus 2nd thelr are concerned, thonch perh=pe fannler on!v with the lowlest
Then they journeyed to the Desert with a great snd numerous train, pulpits were the airy chambers of the iret Christian towers. and most mnpre’encing of me kind, we are conscious that i
To his old nomadic instinct trusting life and wealih again. : Where the muezzin every half boar from the lefiy minaret deeply impressed even the ** anganacd temper’’ of ovr chuld-
It was now the sixth day's journey, when they met the moving sand now calls the faithful Mahomietan to pr re first heard | 8 ™™ Phe weest among us may not be abdle to d-fine pre
te ae Me RE PF RS eS —- . . : . , _ ce sei¥v t:ese impressions, or t ace to their eourc he admiraticr
On the great wind of the Desert, driviog o'er that arid land; thoae matin and Vesper chimes Wich since thea fhrouzhoul 4 - P , OFS eir eource the admirat i
| ce \ : and #eti ‘ . oontt oe a. © seats ities ais i Catholic Lurope have accompanied the rising aniine setting .. Sal fe a tee. e ye
And the air was red and fervid with the mm $ Gery Oreata,-— . a 1 ‘ a 4 ; i ; Na }e@aniiful fitness to acorn anc glory the Christian temple.
“ yy . A . P a . . . e} : saaa th ; at t owe mn P >} rey ¢ , 6 - .
None could see his nearest fellow in the stifling blast of death. of the sun. Thus the ‘ ee year tower Wnmedial€iy OcCOM@es | Bit to the Sioughtful mind how euggestive it ia of pleasant
ae ak, 2s ide associate it the tenderest and mos eiicail ideas OO: Mone ery! we 6% emt i tn i aa egy _—
Blinded men from prostrate camels piled the stores to windward round associated W Mi ow Letoty : : ‘ imagery! It 1 ‘* the silent finger’ that ports to heaven ; it !s

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And withia the barrier herded, ou the hot, unstable ground

asti¢ aud pastoral reli It seemed emulous from the a: vowerd sep ration of the sont; 9 praver from the depths of s
eginning to be the first to catch the hcams of m rning, and, troudled beart ; 9 susperium de profuadss; a hymn of thenks-
like the statae of Memnon, to respond to the golden touch | @ 7a: & pure lifes throwing off-tne worldly and approaching
the ethereal: a finite mind searching, t)} lost im the vastnes~
of tie unknown and unapproschablie; a beautiful atieap’: «
z t ef oe 4 , )wnee of p aise eent up frem the éarth, tll, ike the aoasing lark,
Stull and solema it stood on the piaits Of it « heeomess sightiess song.” Indeed, our anbidden thoegh'e
aith, juher wild- vy of the mind, are trained upward by the spire, t:

Two whole days the creat wind 'asted, shen the living of the train
From the hot drift dug the camels and resumed their way again. : f ta ie ,
: by sounds of music. Then the fervid heart of l:aly took
Pat the lines of care grew deeper on the master’s swarthy cheek . ge ; : a. .

: 5 “ , i? rror h 20M) ip a ove . ‘1oe@ The Me@atie
While around the weakest fainted aad the strongest waxed weak; re, and irom ber 0os0m@ uprose OVer a.) Ber cies Tne beat

tilul campznriie.

like a sentinel on the outskirts of our f
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And the water-skine were emptr, and a silent me
From the faint, bewildered servacts through

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of —_ left be bi it h y {0 the Vast 0: Sp il was Weill. Over the itis hones round with the tenderest sssocrations and recollec-
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Let the land we ic t Se biesze that y niee th wea tw centuries Pp led up tone « f aii thet ig eweet and softening h otir natures. j hva,

From our pleasant wells of water came we bere t : ; peti agrts ‘ : : vA .
the tower of St. Maik. Mavenna, wiih darbaric pride, built | Phen the painter hae repreec noted on hie canvas some wid
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ther round-cinetured towers to the glury of the Exarchate, | Phase of scenery. where the gaveing vine, the tangled und r-
Rome followed with her square campa cmon 3.3) wood, the troubled brook, he back, frowni g Tock, the uo.
sen “Tl ' Sécuide 06 Cremone “O11 plash of rains and refass patched with mcse,”
ena, i 2s t Lremona,

Pat the master stifle! the marmur with his etesdfaet, quiet eye: —
“ dod is great,’ be said, devoutiy,—‘“‘ when He wille %, we shall die.’
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As be spake, he swept the Desert with bis vision clear and calm, eined savage growth of the forest,
And along the far borizou saw the green crest of the pala. were La Ghiclandi
Man and beast, with weak eteps quickened, basted to the lonely well, Torre dei!a Mat 4 Siena, the Gartsenda at Dba@ogna, the «mpress ne with awe and a #90. hornelese feelinz, as if we were
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Aad around it, fsint and panting, in a grateful tumelt fell. Leaning Tower at Pisa. Everywhere they sought the skies ‘oet children, how eloqnent is that laet touch of his pencil the
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with emulous heights, and ere lung they arose in such number | *0#S Us & simple spire peeping oter the tre--‘op ! Tow it
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Many days they stayed and rested, and amidst his fervent prayer , . ,
give a distinctive aspect to the Uhristisn city, and te tlow it brings us home again, sng bestows sn

Abdel-Hassan pond. red deeply that strange bond which beld him there as to g

warn the traveler from afar tha: he approached walls within “aid
which religion was a pride and a power. Who has not ad-
mired the Giotto Uampanile, called “the Beautiful,” a

Florence? And who bas not woudcred at the splendour o

sweet ecirility on rustic wi'ds [’’

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Then there came an aged stranger, jyarneying with h s caravan;

Aod whea esch had cach saluted, Atdel-Haesan thas began:-—
Bt even if we were not imeclined te besentimenta! on the

subject, even if baee utsliies bad crowded oat from our hesris
csi the blessed cepacity of shedding rosy night on things ebout us.
ber citizens, Whose Cc mmand was, “to constract an edibce ) ihe enidest esteem could not bat | whose maguifi euce should be beyoud the conception even of} -efected that the spire never adorned the shrine of a peg n
| the cognoscent2, aud whose height and gaality of workman- god, never glonfied the mosque of a false prophet, never, in
ship shou!d surpass all that has been built in any style, in Pur ty, erase from any ancensecrsied ground ; but when, ot
iGreece or Lome, even at the wiost florid period of their | ‘'**» the Chorch of Chriat felt the ** beauty of nolimess,’’ ther
poe : ; iaiewor 1"? " developed out of that beauty and painted the way ts Ged. |:
Sisty yoars have wrought their changes since a man of wealth and pe : atte > like “——" exhaled from the growing perfectisa of the Chure®, 29 fragrance
pride, But ine spiritua. ization and gory oO! tne tower aT@ JCl trom an opening flower. it ws, therefore, peculiarly holy. f
| wanting. Tiere is a very humaz expression about it, as it j,@ monitor of especial greece. * I: marsucis as the way that
stands in the,midst of those gi minering lands, WiiD it8 | we are going,”’ like the visionary dagcer of Aizeveth ; but the

haughty summit command ng far-distamt plains,— knell that sounds benes hit eum-eene aniy to heaven.
@ Par asthe wild ewan winre, to where the sky Practiesiiy, it ts utterly useless; and this is its honor and ite
Dips dows tosea and ssodz,”— anspeaket le dignity. We exnnaot even ciunb tt, 2s we could
eae ee fol metda and imnerione * towers for tt w nesriy as unspprachad'e x9 she Uracie o!
a very buman eee. OF Scormtul pride + ee “pee God, save to the innocent side, ae love to flock and whee
dominion. We shalitee how ou‘ grew ts mere RUMAUIUES | ete it in saonshine, and bu:id the nests in me ** Cognes of
and became an expressiOa of imoiortal aspiration<, 2 Sy@6O! vantage,” o-, im the migh--time tu the troops of wars which
of our relationship withethercal ex stcrecs. torch it en their journe@ threugh the exes. ft mas besutifulls
' These Italian campapilee had either fat summits, or rere idie es the hilves of the field ; and vet its exoreasivene=s tou: bes
crowned with a low, unimportan® foo’. But as they ap- | Ue 5° aeariy, the propriety O° its sentiment #80 air:king, 'a!,
proached the North of Lombardy, an@found their i: when the great leet question of inis living age we eppiied to i,
Rermane WHEE Seieaie huedliie@ecebeoerl ithe ne- and we tre esked, Wie! tw ite ase? what is t good foo ? the
cripany, e, an ’ 98 > heart ie ehock-d at the piety of the question end the feelings

cessities of climate, beeame steerer and sharper. Many of ,
“ From the shrube we held the camels; for I felt that life of man, ithe little gray mountain shape's in the Se
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Breaikio a hy Oe still lift up these pointed towers amid the bamlets of the
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“Ta the grares of wen and camels long the dates unheeded lay, Val-ey, having gathered the Hardy Loces at eVenaiice for
Till their germs of | fe commanded larger life from that decay; seven or eight ceaturics. The same early modifi cations may

“ Kuowest thou this well of water 7 lies it on the travelied ways ?"’
And be answered,—** From the higuway thou art distant many days.

“ Where thou seest this well of water, where these thoros and palm-
trees stan,
Once the Desert swept unbroken in a waste of buraing sand;

** There was neither life nor herbage, not a drop of water lay,
All sloug the arid volley where thou seest this well to-day.

With bis servante acd his camcis, bere, amidst his riches, died.
* As we journeyed o'er the Desert, dead beneath the blasing sky,
Here I saw them, beasts and masters, in a commun burial he;

“* Thirty men and eighty camels did the sbrouding sand infold;
Aod we gathered ep their treasure, spices, precious stones, and gold;

“ Then we beaped t!.e sand abore them, and, bencath the burniag eun,

With a friendly care we finished whst the winds bad well begun.

** Still I hold that ruster’s¢reasure, and bis record, and his name;
Long [ waited for bw kiedred, bat av Kindred ever came.

* Time, who beer>th all things onward, hither bore our steps again,

Whes around this s: ot were scattered whitened bones of beasts aod men;

“ And from out the :taving hillocks of the mingled sand and mould
' the little paluss were springing, which t i

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NON . N@BIS . DOMINE . NON . NOS'S . SED. NOMINI.TVO.DaA
@L°URiaM.

Nothing can be simpler than the composition of
Sp re. ‘The wehetics of ta develep sent aad growth are cliz-
aps of the round towezs are so piciuresquely | ractersticaliy natural and epparent. Tuey ete lke ihe hestory
that jure olary scenery. ‘L bose dear, trmé-iof a» flewer from bud to bloom uader a ‘warm sur. Let u=

{ne pore

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re the conical,

* And the falling d ws, arrested. nourished erery tender shoot, ve ba nthe ba
While beneath, tne iidden moisture gathered to each wandering roct j

"So they grew; and I bare watched them, as we journeyed, year by ‘

-od. red-tiled reofs, with their peaks coming ip | bscome botanists of Ari for a wh:le, end analyze those flowers

year; fa
j ; hi Tl be : : : . . ’ . . a ‘< ; Pg Xe . :

And we digged this well beneath them, where thou acest it, fresh and they ere peeled.—what eeuld the artist do with- of worsin;, ss theyopenee ** 1m iat fire: garden of their sim-
clear. Ty } penrss.

Then the same necessities meade the early F-ench . ae
Considering the gro*th of the spice from the tower-ronf

might natursky Ce supposed Lial the @arsiesi forms wou

~gaere.or reand, m pisn. Ue: no @eouer bad the roof

i ¢.

“ Thas from waste sod lost and sorrow still are j-y and beauty bern,
Like the fraitage of these palm-trees and the bicssom of the thera;

ind Norman builders push u® into the air those ganot, quain:
old camel-backs. with spind'es or pinnacles astride. You
> 3

“ . e h ci ‘a Oy aa yg RG lg oad : in Se Cs . :

hee oon death aod gud from evil '—from that buried careren cannot but love them ior their strangeness anc (ie surpl sto thig new sphere af exiscence, thaa the fine iaieli: mince «
S* the life to save (he living, Many a os, Gespairing man. tr ey Make against ine q et Sky. In Britain, too, you Mig3t tie badders pererived thet 1 aveded rehaemeni. They saw
ie ended, Abdel-lassar, quivering through his aged frame, huve beheld this tendency, where the lordly curfew quenched tust im a tq@are Spire there was 80 Coarse a GPiiuCliON Delweer
ed, ia accents sl. w and broken, * K newest thow that aiaster’s name” the Pehts iB castle and ect from beneath a very extiu " ' e 'apering Insee of frcht and the te pering mass.of shadow,
“He was known a; Abdel-Hassan, famed for wealth and power and of aroof. Now, as, in the natura! growth of tne buman Hal ike Geleagy Buc lightness Recessary two express the ecnte
ide: . . lm) os : = @ sara Per - i ue meot they deew@d ta convey did not exist im the me-@ ‘eature 5—

price; mind, the heart beeame more and more imprecnated with 4s ae 2s an. :

Bat the proud have often fallen, and, as be, the great bave died !”" tse beauty of holiness, and the prayers of men gscended ws m6 OES A or ihe otner Rand, ‘hey foucd that the die-
© USF os See. * < edt cts ge tele i... tov ef heht end tleade wee te batle ms: ke i wes rapu!

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Then, upon the crouad before them, prostrate Abdei-Iiassan fell, }Sumewhat of purer aspiration te heaven, so did taey bus | 44 . few inate, and qa.te wuhout

Wits bis eged bend: extended, wembdiing, to the loaely well,—

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e

| Moved by pity, spake the stranger, bending o’er him in his grief: — 6 the spire; and it has a kind of scaly mail, Raskin says, |
Wiic is nothing more than the copying in st-ne of the com-|
Now the proud |
Italian architects, disdsinful though they were of the arts of |
‘the rude Northern builders, could not but admit the expres- |
sireness of the pointed roof; so. they placed a form of tt on}

‘in both these instances making it a third of the whole height. |

' se] ; dik soe. j if thi eire | ‘ - . pf » “
of 9 5 if and its serge energ? * it seems as it - desire | fahied Narcissus, it yearned for its own image. Hence the|
jcould fled so wobler expression than ‘ia ‘towers: © same’ joy and luxury of the ecclesiastical buildings of that period. ,

| its noblest and proudest atteinments, in more primeval times 114 chivalrous. It, indeed, sent the stylite to his pillar, the}

cessities of life, but of that fond desire of the soul which has i195 jn childlike fervor, and feeking expression in outward’

es 2 : "tae ‘ . that deliciogs crispiness « f spread of Cathouic
ber and bigber juto ibe air, ul 8b .cDg‘0 | effect wich they a! ouce odisined by cucting off ibe corners of

the Equare epire, and reducing it to an octagon. $5 erry yy did; tut they differed between themselves, and both

A te Sailer £5 the eg eg 4 renee i differed from other writers. Some expressions in the writings
if wT ayes ed. ive yi seer . at - .

se form’ wes, sm aye. Une rT of of the Pope were dirested against the use of the Pagan poets

culty arises in the beginning, how to unite the octegem of the) i, u., eared i se
> schools; br P .

epire with the square of the tower. There are four triangular of t! pn Is , but .that was because he f the influens

spaces at the enmmit of the tower left uncovered by the super- 1es@ writings In spreading Pagan ideas and corruptin

structure; and how beet to treat these, sunple as the tak may the morals of the young. He was himself the most lear
seem, constitutes what may be called the touchstone of archi- Man of his age; he tried according to unanimots testimony,
tecuursl genius in spire ways of effecting ny each of them subject to such moriica- sciences attained a high dezree of excellence even before his
tion®, in indisidual instsnces, as to give them an ever-varying | death, : “pee pa oer ; , .
Perhaps the earliest method was simply to oecupy thoee tri- |; te for the; ISAS SOHOOIS ABD & LNTETY Tr Waresue tee
angular spaces with pyrermds! masses of masonry, sloping back | nt for their instruction. — When be sent them forth %
iacainet the acjicent faces of the tower,—an expedient which convert the nations he also provided them with libraries, the
| Narre herself might have suggested in the firet snow-storm | proof of which was to be found in the [ist of manuscripts
| !ben they boldly cut the Gordian knot by shav nz off the brought by St. Augustine to England, and which might yet
corners of the tower at the top, thus creating there an oetagens! be found in the libraries of that ecuntry. Pope Celestine.
pla'form, to which the spire would exactly correspond. Stti too, sent learned missionaries to Ireland; and no sooner had
o'tener they chamfered the spite upwarda from the corners O!| ‘he Catholic Church arisen, than there arose also a Catholic
tie tower: im other words; they placed, neit were, 2 equare) oo, snd no }? ae sed ti’? Ireland dded
i spire on their tower, occupying the whole of its summit. and —. he a4 10 Tong time: passed ti'l Ireland was stadde
then obtained the nrtessary octanglarity by ehaving off the with literaay institutions. This fact was admitted by the
langies of the spire from the wpex to a certain point near the Protestant Hallam. In the time of Julian, also, who by
| base, where the cutiing was continued obliquely to the corners his edict shut up the Christian schools oat of jealousy, many
of the tewer. ‘The latest method was to build pinnacies onthe such sehools, and of a very high order, already existed at
,trianguiar territory. In such cases the epire u-ually stood Rome, so that St. Augustine ‘Was. on account of their ex-
wholly within the outer boundrivs, and parapets assisted 10 CON- gellence, induced to finish his education there. In 440, St.

Cea! the Gret aprieging of the epire. Leo boasted of the number and ominenee of the schools. In

Tho first of these methods is usnally considered the most iq .-_ . a os
‘perfect and beautiful, on account of its simplicity and candor. PA tear y! Was * uired by a council in the fourth century,
\'Phis is celled the broach; and it is the only form thus far ‘at there should be not only a coliege in every diocess, but
‘epoken of wherein the tepering surfaces rise ditectiy from the 4 schovl iu every Parish Priest's housc; it being alleged that
|tower-cornier, without mutilating the tower or violating the this was common throughout Italy. In England, when t' ¢
/pure outlines of the spire. The heevenward aspiration, ssi glorious work of the Monks had been destroyed by the sword,
seems lo typify @ cer'sin filnese and adaprabili'y to heaven! ° a" ei :
| Aho gle, J . 7, ‘ i” O ¥ Rome, in the persons of her mis ionarias whose labors were

hings even in the gross and eerthly nature of man. ne can successfal’ thal tn 0 h a
not fail to admire ite unaffected dignity, its harmoaious balance, | ° a the next age the Church was adorned
its graceful proportione. by such men’as Bede and Aledin. In France, Charles re-

I: would be impossible within the limits of this article to give stored the. schools in order to raise the people from their
any idea of the wonderful diversity of treatment these simple state of ignorance ; but he‘did #0 according to his own state-
generic forms receiv ed et the hands of the early builders. The mont because he was prompted by the Holy Father at his
,changes of combina'ion, proportion, tud ornamentation ‘ere |third visit to Rome. The 9th ceniury opened prosperously
endless, Sor the medeval epirit was eminently earnest in its “3 : is : ¢

eepcee pe y pinky. pk, jee Os Cove Pres werieee. | education, yet it had not proceeded tar without the sp-
abo-, and would not be conteat with copying en oid shepe nearance of "s Gatliak th ihbat fort by th
merely because it was a good shape, It would not be satisfied f reed} Cline, Ht neha wit out an e ort y the
wiih the cold repetition of a written litany of architectural Ubor-h to prevent ib;—asa Couneil urging upon Charles the
forms : but tte ardont piety, its thongh ful zeal, the fe of its Bold the necessity of encouraging learning. It was, however,
love, demanded an every-vetying exXpression in these visible sometimes urged that the Catholic schools were designed for
prayers. Emerson himeelf might find nought to censure there, the (raining of ecclesiasties. or for teaching such as desired
in the way of undue conforimities and consistencied. lia lan- instruction in the dead languages alone ; and that, therefore,
guage wae written with the infinite siphabet of Nature. the instructions were in the Latin tongue. But he replied

: r 4 kin = iallv of Eeviland: D rT ; ry 5 y

Ve are speaking now especially of England; and we, her 1104 th. Ta ia tongue was then generally used and understood
children, may well be proud that these div-ne enthusiasms o} ‘| e E an ett ee i ie.
antiquity, which we though! eo quaint, 6o rare, so far away from’) * Fist arope. © smondi 8 ii that it va employed by
us, nowhere elee found fairer demons‘rations. The Engheh $'ciers in their songs; and a writer who wished to counter-
spires bear esp-c-al witness to the zeal end eepiration of their act the ill effects of the plays of Terence, wrote Christian
bin ders. They belred them with bands of ornament, cut st plays in Latin, whick produced a great moral edect, euch as
fret im imitation of t lea, and wferwe-ds beavtifuliy panelled gould not have arisen from them, uuless the people had under-
with foiianona. Monided nbe bezen to run up the angies of stood them. In England, Rede testified that Latul and
the spires, and, when they met at ihe summit, would exuiting'y

" sree were ag familiar to the people as their nati-e tongues.
cur, thense yes together in the moat precicus ¢ericiiorms ee ma an . ery .° : . “
Quaint enire lishte bean to enprar.. Sometimes curiecs dom /oeei ss, Was) /0id Again thet be Miesigre tage encourage!
mers would project from alternate sides; ef d the very ribs, as | 783 not meant to enitgnten, and was at best truth mixed

; , : _~ " *2 ® °.8 , — . .
f. in.thia epring-time of Art. they felt, cuickening aiong their | With fable—consisting chiefiy of untrae legends of the Saints
* ‘ : _— . i sila $ “+ ae
| ng he, the mysterions movements of a new iiie, sprouted out ed only at the promot:on of superetition. Yet Gu zot,~,
ee 4 x '

here and there with knote«f leafage, timidly at firet, and then
with all the wealth snd profusion of the huvest. The same
iaptiee wreathed the crowning ero7s with a thousand mid-!,
il the cirele of Evernitz, or the triengie of i

philosopher, in his history of civilization, had

fended the Catholic Chureh from this charge, aud had
infed ont thei mine oral rst j 9

vinted out their eminent moral power. Bat it was not

tii wd necessary to reply on his defenc mitting t! is

ity, which ofien mingled wi h tta arms, eesrcey knew it- . Tine ) P A A “A fe e. Ad rei. that this
a ‘yhe monacios, ton, binesorned into croc ke la and bud-like 1e3° a & as erature nad je as. MUCR hat was fabulous, the true
:, end begen to gather more thickly wbon: the roots of the question was whet was its to tency. Dil it deba ethe mind.

spire, apd from them often leaped Aying-buttreeses aganet it and con‘ribute to the ascendancy of the vulgar p2ssior 5 of

Durmg this teme the spire iteelf waa growing more end more the body, or did it not on the contrary tend to strengthen

acu‘e, ity lines becoming more and more ek quent. After the faith and keep before the minds of men the mutsbie nature

fourteenth century, tee ower bevan fo be Crowned With intri- of earthly things ? it was not the fictions af that literature

ummer fencies,

ti
e
i

cate pannelied tracery of parspets and batticmenis, irom Dehind | 1: : : , : :

; St pe ais aa hitches *- ea te ae Gee Fe which were objected to, for who objected §) the fictions which
Which Ae Spire, an enrice cpara. puc't : " yp ones ad «a - thei aya ’ a eh wrest

sky. Ln thie, the period of the perpemlicular style, pinnacl -*, warmed at the present da~, Tt was the spiritual tendency

arfled to the last degrec, crowded about the hese of the epire, | Of these legends that caused th outery against them in 4
icine throng gathered shout the base Zeneration that seemed to desire to kncw nm tiing of the

L.Aring

reminding one of the ad
’ me old picture of the Ascension. But there ie another spiritual. Tt bed farther been objected that in the instruction
Kaglieh form whieh perhaps conveys this sentiment even roe of there schod’s there was s tits! nepleet of the ho'y scrip-
i npressive'y : We reer to that whose pro orype exisia (© the | cures. Ls, wes true that the abscnce of the art of printing
steeple of the Church of St. Nichoms at Newca-sie-upon: * ¥0°- | made it impossible to pat the bilie into che lidhds of ali
Tne, however, hes four turrets, one on each eng'e, from w~™ ee aa : . j ' : r

A cholars ;—ut in each #-hool ample means were afforded for

fluor grand fiving- a . . - ‘
btaining s correct knowledye from manuseript setiptares, and

with great gh ness, leap towards esch otter i
buttresses, whch join hends over an empty void and hold ir ‘ — eats
the air a lantern snd epirolet of great elegance. “This ie a each student bad to go through a biblical course in bis fir-t
very bo'd piece of constrncton. ft has been im tated at St. year. To those who desired tc understand the subject fuly,
Gil s’s Fdenbargh, at Linlithgow, in the college tower of Aber-' he would recommend ihe work of the Protestant Martland
deen, and it i@ especmily made known tothe world by S191 the Dark Ages, and a namb:r of a work ealld the Unris-
Cc iste pher Wren : farr ous use of it in the steeple of St. Dur-| tan Remembsanser of Ist January, 1855. — Lt was ineon-
stan’s-in-the-Esst, London. ‘estible that the kuowledge of the bible in that-period wos
more perfect and general than in this boasting and bible
oi resding age. He might there rest the argument ;. but he

ROME THE PATRONES3' OF | LEARNING ee ee cece ena ee renee mae
times. In these thescholars of St. Benedict might be cecn

T an ~arrving out the three objects of their founder ; she conversion

(To be concluded in cur nezt.}

Tr, a uw % 4 Iho hee wmArke Q4-% Jae
ome must be judred by her wor! Sophocies was ac-j mae : :
get Pat wr, 2. " . ial wectend “et f scu's; the reclaiming of the sci] ; and the carrsing every-
eused of madness; he reolied by exhibiting his trazedies, , : . “ : = oS waere of the torch of literatare ard scitnce. Their mapr-

and so when Rome was traduced it was cnlvy nece-sary, ir

n po? scrip’s, exhawed from thousands of ecavents, formed at this
reply, to brieg firward the great facts in her h , ’

de le a ee i lay the basis of all reiiable history; while their edition in
was, howerer, difficu't to gt these facts be Ode Laahioe 15 wan Pa :
m ¢ 4 0 SY + ey nore than 150 volumes of the Greek and L t.4 fathers
To thee who had ail their! ¥ 6 looted: of eed TRAE & ‘ ‘ mag a es

a i ae . -howed their ca-acity to impart know e'ge, The Domiui-

te question, and wo held their most sacred Ci hs » tte Y em 4 “—s. o “~ :
: . vans might all be seeq raising the standard of education at
v

e based on the views bitherto hell. it was a most palnfu . :
; st ee. Bologna, Oxford and Cologne, and creating such a galéx;

thing to admit any contrary impressions. 70 do so was te) o« »&»..

; eo a fata oP ae ‘ ea tet | eg a sVheird erudition as the world hus never seen—a galaxy compose |

Jesert the landmarks Of Uhneir ioretatners; ve thei ; ‘ " .

postectty, withicieh 1sdess (ance Le a eke CRT tim ‘of such stare as Albertus Magnus in the exact sciences, an |

CSTE OWE LMuerTiiance 5, abu even it migni oe ato = . er : . 4

Fae Keakt i : oon a , 16 their learning that, aceording to the confession of Gibbon,

H. well remembered the painte! impression made on his own ..

one of their monas ejies had prodaced more lierary ani
seiertife works then both the English Universities. They
o:ld, morecver, boast of @ cursus completus, written by
their own order. A century or two later there arose:ths
rini’a' le: r ay of combatants formed by the magnanimous

wind when a knowledge of facts made him bezin to dub
tie truth of m-ng charges a,a's the C tiolie Church—
how he felt wh. n he founithatailhisp s life, his princi;
snd motives of ection, were nothing better than dela:i us, ¢
Deeply, therefore, did be szimpa:hise with all those whom Soziety of Jesus; but what were their wed ?—those of
: é ¢ : . OVLi J esus vUL nat Cre tacir Wea —_
reason, justice and honor calied to the same task. Brot wa- |; ne anl fenatie’ada’? Til erties some of :
there not in the Ameri a» heart. on either cide of the line) So a ee ee, enn ene
ft do, Wine of tole onl nonesnleul elt ate thie ee with whom they contended, elsim to be beard because
ad * eee bes es oie tie oat waa tey spoke by inapiration? Let their rule be looked into,
ui TOP? ymoatny © Be injured, og secure Fd - os . " a
age Ae x, -—— te oh th nce Inet mag, |fOF proof of their long training im fiters.areand science ;
Uat me B pa‘cn afirg—cepce any Ww oe thesé last PTO | tet their’ classification be regarded with tho appointment o°
tested against the charges brought against them, and offered ‘their profvundest scho’ars for the schools, and their mcs:
nake = innocer ~ . oS the rr r Ie chloe ante 2 : ea 2 . va —e -
to mak 0" tiwir'fanocohes appear By the aie pelplieMtemy, oynent menthers fur preaching > let their course of stud7

The c! a -ges made by the Prote-tant pre-s, by mimister#,and , 7. : ; “yh a
- ? ve exatnined to sce the high standard of knowledge roquire.!

np &

eo
«

hy gtateemen, was, thet Christian Rome wis systematically. ” , ae s

le : ae ri rom them—let the populafity «f their educati n.] system
heetile to mental and eocial improvement, and had a settled ’ wed ri ot mn a a
we ’ t me Magee Ane aul the memoria! of their members dis in uisied if every
estyn Of keeping the people in ignorance and social degra-\_, ; : “ agg
: se : e sere of kniml dge be considere]; read the 1: of their

dation, and this, though the contrary had been made clear, »
by the confessions of Protestent writers. It was rot his in-
tention, however, to show that tre Catho ¢ Chuch hac,
been favorable to the spread of ail sorts of knowledge with
out regard to its suitableness or saf
tained that it was the prerogative of the Holy Father t
guide the flock. and ehield it from indisercet tcachers and

the Catholic Church could fsirly be accused as the fosterer
of ignorence. The learaed leeturer tien referred to ti
‘monuments of ancient ar: preserved in Romwe—1o the jm-
mense library of manuscrip’s and boos in the Vatieas—
ani asked whether this care for the preservaticmof the

> iad i : sei ; monaments ef art and science, was a provf of a desire for
from the impositions of science, falsely so-called. He, there- ‘ es , uecnheng mye" '
' ; gnorance. As to educational insti:u‘io s, Christiamdbome

fore, had never wae oy from as ee to dangeroes Error. | ich 160.000 inhabitant«, had tio Téa than ten colleges -
wr even to the uctimely ~publipation of intria-tc trate. Oh pclae rt Fa be eae eer = tly
was to be expected, then, that ins‘ances would be fuend in| ~ ae Be. gh com's rf tall
wv ch infidelit 7 and letra ‘anariazocism would eonsider the in-

terference of Christian Kome hostile to mental progress
thouch she was reaily imthose very istances the foster-' | 4p

(mother of pure reason and essential treth. Nor did be hold | ~

ety, for Catholics mauin-

hree eolie_es, and two Seminar‘ee In

at ta s shark of aait +; eet s5
pai Sta e theré were seven UnrvesSities. in 2 4trict

ok, gia ea oe of the Catholic Clurely, | 2o*sUg Jess than haif the area of the St te of New Yi rx.
that, taourgh tris as a 2 OF tze st00,96 VOGre!.' « ni ' : a Pt :

s a ge henge : a [hey were open to all classes sol nufiogs, and neabered
0 eer 22.899 studentsz. He migit po farther, sid compare the
been Gonosed to enlightenment, th ozgh in as mewhatex- Salt a EY i ‘ “i, ,
art $. — ” , : educational institutions of Catholic countries with those of

teusive resdine he had met with few such exampies. Sach ... . pen ere '
: Protestant ones—tho-é of this seble city. with any t be

;

a: there were they did no: militate against bis proposition,
which concerned nut individaals, Nor did he maintain that
there had been no perio ’s of mental depressivn ; but he said
this—-tbat whatever the naturel character of the 2z¢-.

‘:ristian Rome bad always been abead of

found elsewhere on the Contivent, end be atight again a-k
vhether these were proofs that Catholic Rote discontage!
earning?—[From Dr. Ices’s Lectures tefore the Literary

Association of Moatreal.

every other. body,.to prompt the d:ffusion of
[If the contrary were true, the fact must

; ex; s- A Western elitor aod his wife were ont walking t'-

mf tine af ths earl¢ tab.’ s%- “if a Y i We : : "
pear in th: time of the early establishmest of her power; be- ‘bright moonlight coe evening. The wife was of ar enceed-
: * 7

et - :

sze all the cireumslamers were favorable to her sucecas.|ing!y poetical natare, and said to ber mste-—* Notiee that

Sut look at the facts. Gregory the Great lived in the heart moun, how bright, and-ealm, sod beaatiful.” * Oosldn’t

of the Dork Ages, and was celebrated for bis zeal for the !thisk of noticing it” retorted the editor, for anything |ess
-

st Pee.

t
b. Iscourage- than the usual rates—a dullar and fifty ceuts Grtwelve
jment of knowledge? Loorae and Uallsm b-d intimated ust |!

a

Sossuets, Bourdalous, Kirchers. aud Pakavicinis, ami aay if

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