Nor distant far, a length of colonnade Invites us. Monument of ancient taste, Now scorn'd, but worthy of a better fate. Our fathers knew the value of a screen From sultry suns; and, in their shaded walks And long-protracted bowers, enjoy'd at noon The gloom and coolness of declining day. We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. Thanks to Benevolus-he spares me yet These chestnuts ranged in corresponding lines; And, though himself so polish'd, still reprieves The obsolete prolixity of shade.

Descending now (but cautious, lest too fast) A sudden steep upon a rustic bridge, We pass a gulf, in which the willows dip Their pendent boughs, stooping as if to drink. Hence, ankle-deep in moss and flow'ry thyme, We mount again, and feel at every step Our foot half-sunk in hillocks green and soft, Raised by the mole, the miner of the soil. He, not unlike the great ones of mankind, Disfigures earth; and, plotting in the dark, Toils much to earn a monumental pile, That may record the mischiefs he has done.

The summit gain'd, behold the proud alcove That crowns it! yet not all its pride secures The grand retreat from injuries impress'd By rural carvers, who with knives deface The panels, leaving an obscure rude name, In characters uncouth, and spelt amiss. So strong the zeal to immortalize himself

John Courtney Throckmorton, Esq., of Weston Underwood.

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Beats in the breast of man, that e'en a few, Few transient years, won from the abyss abhorr'd

Of blank oblivion, seem a glorious prize,
And even to a clown. Now roves the eye;
And, posted on this speculative height,
Exults in its command. The sheepfold here
Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe.
At first, progressive as a stream, they seek
The middle field; but, scatter'd by degrees,
Each to his choice, soon whiten all the land.
There from the sunburnt hayfield homeward

creeps

The loaded wain; while, lighten'd of its charge,
The wain that meets it passes swiftly by;
The boorish driver leaning o'er his team
Vocif'rous, and impatient of delay.
Nor less attractive is the woodland scene,
Diversified with trees of every growth,
Alike, yet various. Here the gray smooth

trunks

Of ash, or lime, or beech, distinctly shine,
Within the twilight of their distant shades;
There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood
Seems sunk, and shorten'd to its topmost
boughs

No tree in all the grove but has its charms,
Though each its hue peculiar; paler some,
And of a wannish gray; the willow such,
And poplar, that with silver lines his leaf,
And ash far stretching his umbrageous arm;
Of deeper green the elm; and deeper still,
Lord of the woods, the long-surviving oak.
Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun,
The maple, and the beech of oily nuts
Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve

Communicative of the good he owns,
Admits me to a share: the guiltless eye
Commits no wrong, nor wastes what it enjoys.
Refreshing change! where now the blazing sun?
By short transition we have lost his glare,
And stepp'd at once into a cooler clime.
Ye fallen avenues! once more I mourn
Your fate unmerited, once more rejoice
That yet a remnant of your race survives.
How airy and how light the graceful arch,
Yet awful as the consecrated roof
Re-echoing pious anthems! while beneath
The checker'd earth seems restless as a flood
Brush'd by the wind. So sportive is the light
Shot through the boughs, it dances as they
dance,

HIS beautiful little church has recent

The engraving would seem to contra

Jefferson County, New-York, within the bounds of the Black River Conference. It is built of wood, forty-four by seventy feet on the ground, with a basement under the main room, and almost wholly above ground, and a tower and spire one hundred and thirty feet high. The basement is ten feet in the clear, and the side walls of the main room twenty-five feet. The exterior is painted white and furnished with green blinds.

ground. But while the sills are only three feet from the ground in front, so rapid is the descent of the surface toward the rear, that but little of the basement wall has earth against it to obstruct light or create dampness. The lecture-room is in the rear, and is entered on one side; and the class-rooms, wood-room, sexton's closets, &c., are under the front of the building. The main audience-room is well-proportioned, and is decidedly neat and tasteful.

It has a narrow end gallery for the choir, with a vestibule under it, on one side of which is a passage to the basement, and on the other to the gallery. It has two aisies, and the sixty-eight pews are upholstered uniformly with crimson damask. Wood-stoves properly located furnish sufficient heat, but the ventilation is defective, as it can only be obtajned by opening windows. No church is complete that has not an ample supply of wellplaced ventilating registers.

The wood-work of the main room is in imitation of black walnut, matching the crimson damask very well, but not so much in keeping with the common glass of the windows, and the white exterior and green blinds. It is a question of taste whether light drab cushions and grained oak would not have been an improvement. Still it is a pleasant church as it is.

The pulpit platform is but two feet eight inches high, with a recess for sofa, finished above with a Gothic arch. The altar-rail is low, (twenty inches,) as it should be, and the kneeling board but five inches high and twelve inches wide. A high altar-rail and a high, narrow kneeling-board are always wrong, and often distressing. The pulpit platform of this church is too high by six inches.

We regard this, however, on the whole, as a fine model for a low-priced church in a country village, and a gem in its external appearance. It will seat about four hundred persons in the main room, and has good accommodations for choir, classes, Sabbath schools, &c. The cost was but $5,000, exclusive of site, and without bell or organ. The pews are rented annually at from $5 to $18 each, the proceeds going to support the pastor.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, NEWARK,

NEW-YORK.

THIS fine church edifice was dedicated by BISHOP SIMPSON on the 18th of January 'last. It is situated in the beautiful village of Newark, Wayne County, New-York, within the bounds of the East Genesee Conference, and is at present occupied by Rev. JOHN DENNIS as pastor.

The building is fifty-six by one hundred and twenty-three feet on the ground, including tower in front and buttresses on the sides. The material is brick from the water tables to the clock section, and wood above that. The spire is one hundred

and seventy-six feet high, the great length of the building requiring a tall spire to relieve its seeming disproportion.

The style of the building is well represented by the opposite cut. The outside entrance-room may be seen near the rear, though it is on the other de of the building in fact, the artist having reversed the drawing in copying for the engraver.

The spire is in fine proportion, and has the right style of finish at the top, but the two chubby-looking windows, directly opposite each other, and with their heavy projecting cornices, are not in perfect keeping with the general grace and symmetry of the structure. We suspect there has been some error in the drawing or engraving at this point.

The cellar, which extends under the whole building, is depressed but four feet below the surface, and is used only for fuel, furnaces, and gas-making apparatus.

The lecture-room is in the rear, on a level with the main room, and extending across the building, like that of the Broadstreet Church, described in our last number. It has this difference, however: the Broad-street Church has the class-rooms below and the lecture-room above; but in this case the lecture-room is below and the class-rooms above, like the Marketstreet Church, Newark, N. J.

The lecture-room is thirty by forty-three feet, and thirteen feet high, and is sep-· arated from the main room by a brick wall with doors each side of the principal altar.

There are four fine class-rooms and a Bible class-room over the lecture-room, all well arranged, but we have not space for the drawings furnished by the building committee. The lecture-room is ventilated by three registers, each ten by sixteen inches, near the ceiling, and one near the floor.