fine villas, and here and there a sugar
estate. I remember with delight a view I once enjoyed just after sunset
from St. Michael's church tower, toward the eastern end of the city.
From that height the numerous trees planted in the yards, and which are
not conspicuous from the streets, appeared in full view, and every mean
and repulsive feature being hidden, the city seemed embowered in a
paradise of verdure. On the right spread out the pleasant plain of
Liguanea, bounded by the massive corrugations of the dark green
mountains, while on the left the lines of cocoanut trees skirted the
tranquil waters of the harbor, over which the evening star was shining.
I wished that those foreigners who touch at Kingston, and, disgusted
with its wretched squalor, go away and give an evil report of the goodly
island, could be permitted to see the city from no other point than St.
Michael's church tower.

FOOTNOTE:

[Footnote C: See J. Ross Browne's sparkling papers in _Harper's
Magazine_.]

THE GRAVE.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

BY L. D. PYCHOWSKA.

The grave is deep and still,
And fearful is its night;
It hides, with darkened veil,
The _Unknown_ from our sight.

No song of nightingale
Within its depths is heard;
And only is its moss
By friendship's roses stirred.

In vain their aching hands
Forsaken brides may wring;
No answer from the grave
The cries of orphans bring:

_Yet_ is it _there_ alone
The longed-for rest is found;
Alone through these dark gates
May pass the _homeward_ bound.

The silent heart beneath,
That pain and sorrow bore,
Hath only found true peace
_There_, where it beats no more.

REASON, RHYME, AND RHYTHM.

CHAPTER V.--ORDER, SYMMETRY, AND PROPORTION.

No numbers can be conceived of but as a collection of unities; in adding
unity, many, to itself, we only form a unity of a higher rank: it is in
taking unities successively from these numbers that we return to the
first unity. Thus variety or plurality, which at first seemed
destructive of unity, actually rests upon it, admitting it as an
elementary constituent of its very being. The _collective_ idea of the
world, _infinite variety, collection of individualities_, could not
exist in us without the idea of _unity_; and closely associated with the
conception of unity, is the idea of Absolute Order.

Whatever may be the disturbances which we witn