ars; tears of endless pity, and yet of a
sacred joy and triumph. The beautifullest kind of tears,--indeed
perhaps the beautifullest kind of thing: like a sky all flashing
diamonds and prismatic radiance; all weeping, yet shone on by
the everlasting Sun:--and _this_ is not a sky, it is a Soul and
living Face! Nothing liker the _Temple of the Highest,_ bright
with some real effulgence of the Highest, is seen in this world.

O, if all Yankee-land follow a small good 'Schnuspel the
distinguished Novelist' with blazing torches, dinner-invitations,
universal hep-hep-hurrah, feeling that he, though small, is
something; how might all Angle-land once follow a hero-martyr
and great true Son of Heaven! It is the very joy of man's heart
to admire, where he can; nothing so lifts him from all his mean
imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration. Thus
it has been said, 'all men, especially all women, are born
worshipers;' and will worship, if it be but possible. Possible
to worship a Something, even a small one; not so possible a mere
loud-blaring Nothing! What sight is more pathetic than that of
poor multitudes of persons met to gaze at King's Progresses,'
Lord Mayor's Shews, and other gilt-gingerbread phenomena of the
worshipful sort, in these times; each so eager to worship;
each, with a dim fatal sense of disappointment, finding that he
cannot rightly here! These be thy gods, O Israel? And thou art
so _willing_ to worship,--poor Israel!

In this manner, however, did the men of the Eastern Counties take
up the slain body of their Edmund, where it lay cast forth in the
village of Hoxne; seek out the severed head, and reverently
reunite the same. They embalmed him with myrrh and sweet spices,
with love, pity, and all high and awful thoughts; consecrating
him with a very storm of melodious adoring admiration, and sun-
dyed showers of tears;--joyfully, yet with awe (as all deep joy
has something of the awful in it), commemorating his noble deeds
and godlike walk and conversation while on Earth. Till, at
length, the very Pope and Cardinals at Rome were forced to hear
of it; and they, summing up as correctly as they well could,
with _Advocatus-Diaboli_ pleadings and their other forms of
process, the general verdict of mankind, declared: That he had,
in very fact, led a hero's life in this world; and being now
_gone,_ was gone as they conceived to God above, and reaping his
reward _there._ Such,