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ee suite : wie And the sacred soi! beneath him east upon his heary bead.— the spire wxs born. In one of those quaint antique tower: z 1 t c y ii { ii i ¢ pow the servants and the camels,—stmmoned Haroun from the oe Normandy, Coutanees, it was first fully developed > and

° eau,— once ° . " s . oat , it is enrious to see how in this instance its roof- Tigin was ae Clutchod the tmeonscions palms around him, as if they were living mer, gti]| remen.bered: for it haa tall, gab'ed garret-windows And before him, in their order, rose his buried train again. slates frame ion bane eonnected by sade evama bare te the slepe sigg. from its base, : “ros rs to the e

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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 st ¢ of exlamity are made apparent after long intervals « Thou beholdest Abdel-HHassan ! They were urine, and [ am he ” veal the deep remedial force that underlies

nger’s knee— The compensatic of time, The sure years re

S ’ Wondering, stood they all armind him, and a reverent silence kept, all fact. —Euerso>

| While, amidst them, Abdel-Hacean lifted ap his voice and wept. Joy and grief, and faith and. triumph. mingled in hie flowing tears; soine of their eampaniles, 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 came 1, many a faithful eerving-man. But he spire, though an efective, was as yet an unambitiou ! strue'ure,—-searcely more tharyan exaltaticn or an a] otheosis 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,

: owed alike the man and beast; . “ And befere the nee pours oes co sige the Hast. | As the past and present blended, lo! his larger rision saw, For the power of A bdel- Hassan ; | 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-

“Tn each woe a blessing folded, from all lose a erestor gain. | Joy and hope from fear and sorrow, rest and poace from toiland pain. | + to continue to distinguish the mediaval times as the * God ie great! His name is mighty! Ho is victor in the strife ? Dark Agea, as if they were glimmering and ghostly, and ped about ia them blindly, living in a sort of dusky —_—_—____—_+see + —__- ——__—- romance of fendality. Did you ever study De Ja Roche's os ‘incarnation of Mediaral Art in the Hemicycle,—that long ABOUT SPIRES. ‘saintly robe with its atill and serious folds, that fair dreamy t Ca. 4 . face, thes> upturned eyes, * the homes of silont prayer,” the Woes the children of Shem said one to another at Tabel. ' 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 - ded aid I bring ‘reach unto heaven,” they typified a remarkable trait of the! 1... was rather a passion than a sentiment. Their “ beeuty Se TT een eons the ettig™ human mind,—a desire for a tangible and material exponent’ of holiness” was rather 2n active emotiona! impulse than a lof itself in its most heroic moods. In the earlier ages of the passive epiritualization, and wag incomplete withort a mate-

| world, when humanity, as it were, was becoming conscious | +i.) expression, a tangible demonstration of itself. Like the

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| i i ! , ° (ex twelfth. { } ° : . \ For He bringeth Good from Evil, and from Death commandeth Life!” |

All the night, as Abdel-Hassan on the Desert lay apart,

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~ Watched the shining constellations waeeling onward through the skies.

When the glowing orbs, recsding, 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 a speck upon the Desert, like a moving — — . Where the fiery skies Wore sweeping dowa to meet the burning sane. aby: poe nae! flyer . : | Spirit of orn which in our own Gay peteseties forth ‘They were the very blossoming af tha tres! of Ehduledee. | inquiring hands into unexplored realms of physical and in-| Thijs was, indeed, an unenlighténed, perhaps a superstitious lee = 1 ok owledves in the snoiis of such Ssearcl uh. i F oud ened 1b: | tellectual 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. adviat

Day by day the servants waited, but the master never came,— r Day by day, in feebler accents, calied on Allah’s bly uame. wal : Es 7 aatinal abel aration thst : ‘a ; I !

FF SE mT ee nee oe Tas with the actual we visible 1N- | hermit to the wildernces, the ascetic to the scourge and hair-

smmpae rie — + Sere i sky Whien to them Was (2° ojoth shirt; but also led the warrior to the Holy Land, the rre : NK CWT ‘ er ; } J weit

ure a type of ol hee and mys ae . aes beggar to the castle hearth, and the workman tothe building

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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.

ever haunted mankind with intimations of immortality. | sane built o *. aya e i Towers thus became the boldest imaginable symbols ofen ray pep" built opwari. - It a . wonder that out of the a , Sowers UUs Secame _ ginadie symois Of Enerzy | elements of the roof it made theapiritual esrence of the spire

| ne he ir h Pour f tim the heeame! r¢ . : . . and power. And when, in the course of time. they became | [we look throngh the whole range of architectural forme

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,

: S ahi ete ee ee oat ate. ainda’ Gecatitionred. by the 10 nf neaafaleu’? . 7 Z if Sie Moved by ber divine compas ton, did the same kind thing tor him. j Xtgencies * maa and . mee te | y the “ene of useful in elassie or me i'sev,l times, We aha! find no one «0 indieca- ess n then they cour not Gut be recogniz a AS CXpres- | ¢; , fei : t : : ‘ ae Earth upon her burning bosom held him in his final rest, ~ m8, oven then J way ' : ‘ OSMZ AS CXpres- | tive of any human em<tion as this simp'e outline is of the w he } £ the Desert piled the sand above his bresst.— sions of the more beroic elements of human neture. hishest of all emotinr — : hae oe £. bile the hot wiuds of the Desert piled the sand above Bis oreast. : ; tighest of a!l emotions,—pre ver. It ie a signiGeant fact, cant

y nded } merghur meecivenese. ang hui! +r m oe , lca ual = . fs a Founded in superadundant massiveness, and duit 19 pro- | that the sentiment of aspiration Is nowhere hinted at in Clas-

ut eee a Se oe tee 2 ligality of strea rth. the tower seems to defy the elements Yielding to the camel's instinct, halting not, by night or day, ee. Sag, ef , and to outlive tradition. Od age restores it

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sie Art, and we look in vain for it in all prgan arcbitectures. to more than + . . oo. a wd 1: : % ‘ “% - ‘

. a + imis 1 Ov gurp ne 70 lppe:s co Dutt in t Till the faithful beast, exhausted in ber fearful journey, fell, its primeval significance; and when humbler erections hare . : - Pe he's —s — ™ = partes With ber eye upon the palm-trees rising o’er the lonely weil: SS os ; nea AumMdier erections have) schools demonstrated there all the noblest ideas they werc

TC passe ad erumbied in ruipa, it appears onee more tt },} sell } ae : ith a f } ] 3 a feeb! n. she died pea ee pues etpable of,—intellectual beauty, dignity, power, truth, chas-

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Wit ) a fant, convulsive strugg.e, anc & reente Se, eae — rise above the customary uses Of Eien, and to become 2 COM- tite agurace. and all the other virtues cherished in toecir While ber still surviving master lay unconscious by her sice. nariie for tempests aed clouds Dismantied, deserted, ane /s: . il Ct tue irfues leaned in bicis an 11or LeiMpests anu Ciouus. ist Hieu, UCsericu, ah theolozies : but their personal relations with any higher

Bo he lar until the erening, when a passing caravan hearing 4 : — ’ . al > ; ‘ eo ¢ Cariux, sohcre of cxristenes, va¢cu +) we leSis h ee From the dead incunsbering camel brought to life the dying man. ™ St Endethed Wook its vist a pHcre © enee gue and wr cine i as they were, called This history of wany a winter's storm for no exXnroession in thelr temn.es, and obtained none.

1 -I ‘ I vathed bis fainting head, his } y of wan r’s storm, a : gt f F Slowly ee e de. ee - ae ere SS ae = ; a ‘ And obscere feeord of the path of Bre,”” Vhe pyramidal form has ever posseseed pecwher fascinations * All ve perished '—they are namobere ith the dead : 4

All is lost, for all save per yu for men. a from iv@ aimplicry, erendear, and power, has

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

: : ; eee * been used in all agea with innumerable modifications in those weeds and flowers, 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 overs we,—re In the

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

“Dring insencibly awar ramida of Me rplve OF Th ned NP o ; |

“God is great! [His namie is mighty! He is victor in the atrife ! dad a th ae 7 eat ateeneaedl ad 7 om at : ee om = a a . xi¢c, and ™ al Stripped of pride and power and substance, He Lath leit we faith end ' : tee. sis, z : a ae exes it invelved a rude symbo'- life ."— we at length associate it with no achievements of man, and ism wheel recommended ttvelf to the Darbarous childhvod of ae \ 1} ter astions. Bat it was not until the pyrannd was sharpened and

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

: tot. : } — i A ; ; Sixty years had Abjel-Hassn, since the stranger's frien ly hand sts Tenieeka Snide OF Titankt dit tllce-eectiers of cnt eae vhe spire that it gsined us completest triumpt Saved him from the burning Desert, lived and prospered in the lane; ora ee a a eae oy nag wer the secret emoviona of men The F * dans insd

. Sie ,. P ‘ }; - i , ‘ ~— ye . : > nade the

Let us for a while forget the tedious realisms nronnd us : Boot

And his life of peaceful labor, in its pure and simple ways, alt nat ok Ges iat tale a al et ae eares!t approse: to it in the echek-k fiat myaterions people For bis joes fuurfeld rezarved him, and a mighty length of days. ne ” ees . é . om oe ae T elt very keenly the euggestiveneas of tie pyeatilal form, anc ’ . a ead Bane oe oe ins: Baden iets iii: Bi, . ‘ : : re a

ale i Ee one wig the wide waters, and behold, along tne borizon, the i?) refined the laneiage ef ifs sentiments into seme very beautify

t » and patience gave him wisdem'‘s mural crown; rs : - i et i : sila , ' at

a ane ‘oe wee og aga ~< A aT dnd on a rich cities’? priuting themselves acainat the morrins. Le! expressions. “Vet between the maueoleums of Git. h and th:

sas end daachters orugnt o1 Lvuber iif Gis cics af ouwno . ‘ r : a . e ° 1s jiaten to rim v chimes at me faintly to us, and | sierogigphic ah fi.» of Jaixor ead Karnac thep@ ex sited a mod:-

fen held hie reverend aspect, and rerered his blameless name; . Ln.es dean.foned ntte-ran@s eo f, nf the rendern : ication, the intensity of whese mer: .e¥ Were not p-er i Sien bebe bis reverence as; ; yless those deen-foned utterances Te e lernees ( you m 3 ey e not pret And in peace be dwe!t with straugers, in the fulness of bis fame. aneicat days and the melods of ersy traiiit:one il ail » understand. Nether the civ | gation nor their relicion m-

i Y owt . > poplin 3 ® ‘ giired etich a expen - hana 4 ther Sh»

Bet the heart of Abd-I-Hassen yearned, 2s yearns the heart of man, them ; for, like lyres of Amphion, at their soncd arose the *". d ; N eKpenent zen they exdeurted themmeivee wit - f \ . : : c . : - * : 6 : ’ th ir mon 1InoOvs Onis ¢ siome and their pic'u ronuliths

Still to die among his kindred, ending life where it began. bell-bearing tower. which ma Je ciiies beanti‘ul and th , ; Ls “4 bime ane i - a ic'ured monvuliths. oe — ss E . sve Know not how the first view ai @ ivi tian spire wou'd

‘ ‘ =" : ; - 5 ae ee — nil Daa ee 5 E yor - & he ea> moned al! his household, and he gave the brief command,— = people Rapp. O St. Chrysostom! there were ober golden gf ct the mind ef an sien; but eo far as our own experiences

*Go and gawer all . ur substauce;—we cepart irom out tac isn. mouths than thine that preaehed by the Bosphorus. 2nd their ‘are e cerned, thong: perhepe families only with the scald Then they journeyed to the Desert with a great and numerous train, puir its were the a ry chambers of the fret Christian towers. and most mnpre'en ing of me kind, we are conscious that i

his old nomadic instinct trusting life and wealih again. > Where the muezzin ever 'f hour from the lefivy minaret deeply impressed even the * angana: d temper’? of our sid- vbw or Bem s s sere the Mure i y ‘a Dur irom the ic y & 2 P’3 ‘ rf cic | Co 293 ae —— . —— ‘é Th st } aa 3 y b] in re. 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 wieest among us may not be abdle to define pre : +) er ae . , ae . s « = _ , 3 ‘ > ry ‘ - r > . : ee ee a an ta ee ST ee eee t-ese inpressions, or t ace to their source the admiraticr On the great wind of the Desert, driviog o'er that arid land; thoae matin and Vesper chimes Waich since thea Mirouzhon camel ‘ . oe j : se 7 ? a sfaetio t “cRerons yer > "ad ¢ legr

And the ai i and fervid with the § a's flery breat! Catholic Europe have accompanied the rising and the setting oe " nif ad Satie “= a ae coon the tb ee, And the air was red and fervid with the > ms Gery Oreata,-—— oer " . mary, ; es . © wa} @aniiful fitness to acorn anc giority the Christien tempie.

2 ia . . ° eit oe . . ~* +} : rita th : at t owe mn ate) rere € ; se : : None could see his nearest fellow in the stifling blast of death. of the sun. Tous ihe ‘ Gristian tower lnmMecdiatery OSCOMES | Rit othe siough'ful mind how euggestive it is of piesxsan!

associated with the tenderest and most poetical ideas of mon

Blinded men from prostrate camels piled the stores to win iward round Aod withia the barrier herded, ou the hot, unstable ground

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i ‘oD: | gnagery! It 1 ** the silent finger’’ that pomts to heaven ; it !s asti¢ aud pastoral re It seemed emmu!ous from the a: vpwerd sep ration of the son!: a praver from the depths of s beginning to be the first to catch the beams of m rning, and, | troudled beart ; = susparium de profuadss; a hymn of thenks- like the statue of Memnon, to respond to the golden touch | @7'"2: & pure ile) throwing off tne worldly and approach nz the ethereal: a finite mind searching, t1)} lost im the vastnes~ of tie unknown and unapproschablie; a beautiful atieap’: « i vnes of p aise went up frem the @arth, tl, ike the aoaring lark ~ : anie t sto > then ‘re . , o ; ie ae ’ Stil and solema it stood on the piains ea becomes s sightiess gong.” indeed, our anbiddea though'e 41M, thet wild--vv 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. : : ta ie , aime by sounds of music. Then the fervid heart of Lialy took Pat the lines of care grew deeper on the master’s swarthy chee . 2 : : i ’

* we : : ’ ¢ or S — : ati ting buniiens While around the weakest fainted aad the strongest waxed weak; re, and irom ber 0os0m@ uprose OVer a.) Ber cies Tne beat

tifui campanie.

+. } : ail a 7 like a sentinel on the outskirts of our f ei

And the water-skine were emptr, and a silent me From the faint, bewildered servacts through

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bs es bead Xd he bs wry x to the vast 1 sp i! was well. Over the itis han? round wich the tenderest sssocrations and recol!ec- * Le tt #5 —that t , , : _

oe See oe se Venice the wea two centuries pled up’ tions of all thet is sweet and softening in enr natures. Thos,

as . € e From our pleasant wells of water came we bere ¢ . ‘ <ill's ; "3 : : : the tower oF St. Maik. Ravenna, with barbaric pride, barlt | PheA the painter nas represc noted on hie canvas some wid

‘ . . . . a : see $t ~ id ear ,| her r mund-cinetured towers to ihe givry oO: the P.xarcaate, | ¢ ae scenery. where the ca Ging vine, the tangled unde r- Rome followed with her square campa cmon 3.3) wood, the troubled brook, he back, frowni Zz ruck, the uo. chawhers looked dow» on a hundred cloisters, Then there — : ena. Il Torasgo at Cremona “O11 plash of rains and refass patched with mcse,” Cia, i ¢ Zs & WiwsdVi °

Pat the master stifle! the marmur with his etesdfaet, quiet eye: — “ dod is great,’ be said, devoutiy,—‘“‘ when He wille %, we shall die.’ ; Soe, Bt. wtel ; ; teined @evace growth of the forest As be spake, he swept the Desert with bis vision clear and cal, e le ge growth of the ferest, And along the far borizou saw the green crest of the pala. were La Ghiclandi . : ' . . ’ . sk. Oe : t Be eee ] a adi ; Man and beast, with weak eteps quickened, basted to the lonely well, Torre deila Mangt: Siena, the Garisenda at Delogna, the «mpress ne with awe and a 29d, homeless feeline, as if we were . 2 os = oumaal ‘é 7 se . - “ . ° Aad around it, faint and panting, in a grateful tucalt fell. Leaning Tower at Pisa. Everywhere t¢! ey sought with emulous heights, and ere long they arose in such: number | 790" us & simple spre peeping oter the tree-‘op:! Llow 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 to 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

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the skies ‘oat children, how e! qrent is that laet touch of his pencsl the

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 vs the blessed capacity of shedding rosy night on things ebout us. ber citizens, Whose Cc mmand was, “to constract an edibce ) ihe enidest esteem could not bat <ip- 2 mio affection, when +e | 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 beco built in any style, in Purity, Grose from any aucensecrsied 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 ” ; ' a iw developed out of that beauty and pointed the way te Ged. | “Sisty years have wrought their changes since a man of wealth and oneal seit ae ley like “——" exhaled from the growing perfectisa of the Chure®, 29 fragrance pride, But ine spiritua. ization and gory oO! tne tower are JC! trom an opening flower it a, therefore, peculiarly hoiy. panting, Frere odesirtegs 4 humaa expression abous if, a8 1 is @ monitor of especial grece. ** I: marshals us 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-distant plains,— knell that sounds benes'h at aum-nene asiy to heaven. @ Par asthe wild ewan winre, to where the sky Practiesiiy, it ts utterly useless; and this ie its honor and ite Dips down tosea end sondz,”"— unspraket a dignity. We esnnot even clunb 1, 28 we coud arts a Ge 2 to i tower; for it mw nesriy as unspprachas e 39 the Uracie o! a very buman eee. OF Scormtul pride + ee BPEMOBS Gad, save to the innocent side, ae love to flock and whee dominion. We shalitee how ii on‘grew ts mere RUMAGIUNES | eine 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 idle es the jilces of the field ; snd vet its exnreanivene=s tou: hes crowned with a low, unimportan® foo’. [But as they ap-/¥*= neariv, the propriety O° its sentiment se so atr:king, 'hs!, proached the North of Lombardy, an@found their i: when the great leet question of inis living age we eppiied to i, Germany, France, and Britain, these mbofe, throazh the ne- a na ye catagperetinn rpg wea: cessities of climate, beeame steerer and sharper. Many of GSun BF etetInt arden Mepety <itepues need see Sib bogs “ From the shrube we held the camels; for I felt that life of man ithe ai. a - 2 tain--thape!s in the Seath of Switz riand the ~ yo Sen een Sar Breaking to new focas of being, thr agh t at teuder herbage ran. Te ee ee ee — Lone. Tan; Mineter ts carved, ——— 5 still lift up these pointed towers amid the bamiets of the “Ta the graves of wen and camels long the dates unheeded lay, val'ey, having gathered the hardy flocks at eventice for Till their germs of | fe commanded larger life from that decay; seven or eight ceuturics. The same erly modificationsanay me, wh tt

“ 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 thoras 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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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=

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* 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

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Asd = digged this well beneath them, where thou acest it, fresh snd they ere peeled,—what eeuld the artist do with- of worsin;, ss theyopenee ** 1m iat fire: garden of their sim- clear. mm }, | p'éness.*”

Then the same necessities meade the early F-ench , ae Censideting the gro*th of the spice from the tower-rof os might natursky Ce supposed Lial the @ariiesi forms wou ~gaere.or reand, m pisn. Ue: no @eouer bad the roof

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“ 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

“ - ‘ Os 7 7 eae a f.- these rare ae ' weror < 7 : - ao Som Gath and ord Geert '-- Sm Sat. buried sanyren cannot but love them jor their strangeness and the Surpr ato thig new sphere of ex sence, thea the fine inieligince « BS fae i ave ivioe ay @ Weak, mairine ’ . - Pap . _ es = ae Seah ee . : g = ew 6 toe living, Many SS, Gespalring mas. they Make against ine q et Sky. In Britain, too, you might tee basdders pererived thet t.oceded refinement. They saw ie ended, Abdel-Iassar, quivering throagh his aged frame, have beheld this tendency, where the lordly curfew quenched tust wm a eq@aze spire there was 80 coarse a disiiuction heiweer yee as ee " »* Kavwest ° master’s name? the iehts in castle and cot from beneath a very extiu - e 'apering Insee of iicht and the tepering mass.of shadow, 7h “— ee , —” : at 1 nd areal tir ier . “He was known a: Abdel-Hassan, fumed for wealth and power and Of a roof. Now, as, in the natural growth of the baman /*9* ‘Be Celtagy auc lightness pecesrary to express the sontr price; . 7 = os , ie pcre S 3 - i as inemt they deetw@d ta convey dic not exist in thre te: ‘eature -— Sut the: on mind, the heart beeame more and more imprecnated with i= ep aa proud have often fallen, and, as be, the great bave died !”" tse beauty of holiness, and the prayers of men geccnded w ia a round SpIre, of the other hand, ‘hey foucd that the d= : ; re ee ; now ef light endiitiede wee ws batleme: ke; i wes vapud

- - . > , . , : Then, upon the grou ad before them, prostrate Abdei-liassan fell, }Sumewhat of purer aspiration te heaven, so did (Sey OUUs | ong « few inate, and quite wakout

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| Moved by pity, spake the stranger, bending o’er him in his grief: — 6 the spire; and it has a kin@ 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 | 7 - . pf » “ of 9 5 if and its serge energ? S 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. ,

F ha. amie ‘ai a i re witee) th 7. ‘2° ; ae Sin ‘et | its noblest and proudest at einments, in more primeval times and chivalrous. I1, in jeed, sent the stylite to his nijlar. the}

niiaton af la bak of thak fe >a} ! ; ‘ : Sih abt ; : 4 , cessities of life, but of that fond desire of the soul which has i195 jn childlike fervor, and feeking expression in outward’

es 2 ; : a ; : that deliciogs crispiness if spread of Cathoiic trut 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, oe reducing it to an ortagen. ke per ~ did; but they differed between themselves, and both we enone ins, 04 the, goat eB. $US pie prise eet c ae om other writers. Some expressions in the writings . ays used. I of the Pope were dire+ted against the use of the Pagan poets

culty arises in the beginning, how to unite the octegR of the in th "

e scho > t £ 2 spire with the square of the tower. There are four triangular! |» ae ols; but .that was because he feared the influence 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, simple as the taek may the mora!s 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, tectural genius in spire<buiiding. There are severn! perera! to raise the standard of 'eant ins in Ri me, so ¢ at the arts and ways of ¢ ff cting tins, each of them subject to such moriica- sciences attained a high degree of excellence even before his tiont, in indisidual instsnces, as to give them an ever-varying death, He required his missionaries to be men of learning,

character, awl : . : Petia je the earliest method was simply to cecupy thoee tri- eee te adequate schools and a library remarkable for 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 country. Pope Celestine. eee 7 pe «te hoe ee NH ere lbees too, sent learned missionaries to Ireland ; and no sooner had

‘ ‘ ime sere : :' s ° € << : . . - the tovter > ia Sent weedy potedy-andt were, © oqanal waren arisen, than there arose also a — i spire on their tower, eccupying-the whole of its summit, and | —. ? 10 Tong time passed till Treland was stadded then obtained the mrecessary octangularity by ehaving off the with literaay institutions. This fact was admitted by the langies of the spire from the apex to a certain point near the Protestant Hallam. In the time of Julian, also, who by | base, where the cutiing was continued oblquely to the corners his edict shut up the Christian schools oat of jealousy, many of the tewer. ‘The latest method was to build pinnacies on the such sehools, and of a very high order, already existed at | triangular territory. In such cases the epire u-uslly stool Rome, so that St. Augustine was, on account of their ex- Wholly within the outer boundries, and psrapets assisted to con- cellence, induced to finish his education there. Tn 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 usually considered the most Spain it a aie ‘perfect and beautiful, on account of its simplicity and candor.) ).t rite v4 * uired by a council in the fourtl century, \'This is celled the broach; and it is the only form thus far ‘at there should be not only a college in every diocess, but i spoken of wherein the tepering surfaces rise ditectiy from the 4 schoul in every Parish Priest's house; 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 keavenward aspiration, «3 i glorious work of the Monks had been destroyed by the sword, were, ascends without effort from the solidity of the tower. It) gho was it that tried to rexindle the licht of knowledge ? seems lo typify @ cer'sin filnese and adaprabili'y to heaven! ° Sah gut : ts ee 7 , Ct pn Fa ¥ Rome, in the persons of her mis ionarias whose labors were hings even in the gross and eerthly nature of man. One can- successfal’ thal tn 0 not fail to admire ite unaffected dignity, its harmoaious balance, | ° — - tae next age the Church was adorned is gracef:! proportione. by such men'as Bede and Aleuin. 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 sny iden of the wonderful diversity of treatment these siniple 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 ichanges of combina'ion, proportion, tod ornamentation ere third visit to Rome. The 9th century opened prosperously endiesa, Yor the medveval epirit was eniinently earnest in itsif Cdusstion, vet it hed : ted . sal, a - < see on ata thene (OF euucation, yet it had not proceeded far without the ap- abo-, and would not be contwat with copying en oid shepe ag ores docline bh ith fort by th merely because it was a good chape, It would not be satisfied e : CCHINS, NOL ee wit out ane eee y the wih the cold repetition of a written litany of architectural Chor sh to prevent it;—as a Couneil urging upon Charles the forms ; but ita ardent piety, ite thonghiful zeal, the Jife of ite Bold the hecessity of encouraging learning. It was, however, love, demanded an every-vetying expression in these visible sometimes urged that the Catholic schools were designed for prayers. Emerson himeeif might find nought to censure there, the training of ecclesiastics. or for teaching such as desired ia the way of undue eae and se ee ye lve jan- instruction in the dead languages alone ; and that, therefore, unge weer n with the infin iphadet i re. ‘ . +; : ¢ - Senge wap Srvtgu ie he cnees Cy eer re the instructions were in the Latin tongue. But he replied Ve are spesking now especially of England; and we, her that the La ia tongue was then generally used and understood children, may weil be proud that these div ne entinsissmes of | “ E ty —, srt oP —— “ - , antiquity, which we though! eo quaint, so rare, so far away from) % eee arope. | 6D di 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 buniders. They belred them with bande of ornament, cut st plays in Latin, whick produced a great moral edect, euch as firet in imitation of ¢ lez, and uf erwe-cse beevt: fu! yg panelled could not have arisen from them, unless the people had under- 1 Fey shes rn | 4 spr : { iC 1s of . 7 Pal - . . with fortationa. Monided ribe tezen to run up the angies oF | stood them. In England, Bede testified that Latii and the spires, and, when they met at ihe summ:, would exulting!y