Oh, I will love thee! when gray morning dawns,
In rich refulgence through the bosom'd grove,
And the bright dew-drops glisten on the lawn,
And tempt the humble labourer's feet to rove.
Oh, I will love thee! when the howling blast
Of sorrow's gale around thy head shall swell;
When from thy heart thy peaceful thoughts are cast,
To thee I'll fondly whisper-all is well.

Oh, I will love thee! in the day of grief,
When all thy friends and all thy youth have fled,
And with affection bring thy heart relief,
And watch with gentle love around thy bed.

Oh, I will love thee! when the balmy spring
Shall clothe in beauty every shrub and tree;
Then all enchanting sights to me will bring
A soft, consoling, hallow'd thought of thee.

Oh, I will love thee! when my days of bliss,
And all my halcyon days of youth are o'er,
Till the fond, faithful heart that dictates this,
And every throbbing pulse shall beat no more.

Oh, I will love thee! on my dying bed,
And my last fervent prayer shall be for thee:
O! wilt thou, when I'm sleeping with the dead,
Shed a fond tear upon my grave for me?-Elizabeth Cory.

GOOD MANAGEMENT.

WITHOUT method, time is nearly valueless; it is wasted in unprofitable occupations, or frittered away in unconscious idleness. Where it is of consequence to economize time, there order should more peculiarly reign. How many valuable moments are daily lost in looking for articles which are always mislaid when most wanted; how much time and trouble are wasted in contriving, day after day, with defective or inappropriate utensils, on which, if a hundredth part of the labour had been previously expended to fit them for the purpose, not only time but comfort would have been gained.

In a room, however small, however crowded, a place may be found for every thing; and these very circumstances render it the more necessary to have method in settling the various things with which the space is occupied. "A place for every thing, and every thing in its place," should be the motto in every well regulated family.

All must have observed how much the want of management leads to the loss of time, and how much more of what is really useful may, in consequence, be accomplished by some persons than by others. "Time is our estate; it is our most valuable property. If we lose it or waste it, we can never-never purchase it back again.” Punctuality must also find a place in the list of virtues which should be practised by the good housewife. It is the child of order and method, and cannot exist where they are wanting. It is generally found that those who have the least to do are the least punctual. But perhaps it may be said, that if each hour has its allotted and full occupation, any trivial circumstance may produce delay, and thus cause every thing to be what is called behindhand. All this is, however, to be avoided, if we allow ourselves in the beginning of the day a few minutes before-hand. But what makes punctuality of still more necessary observance, is, that the want of it may be productive of serious inconvenience and waste of time to others as well as to ourselves.

Order, regularity, and punctuality are, then, the greatest economists of time, and therefore the observance of them cannot be too rigidly practised.

Cleanliness is, however, still more important to the comfort of a dwelling, and it is more especially requisite in the preparation of wholesome food. Whoever has once known the real satisfaction arising from this domestic virtue would never relapse into dirty habits.

The habits which are acquired when we are young, are difficult to be eradicated, even though we may have a sincere desire of exchanging them for better. Order, neatness, and cleanliness, should then be practised by the mother of a family, if it were for no other reason than by example to form her children to habits which will be so essentially useful to them in after life. A mother, by enforcing on her daughters the necessity of industrious

regularity, endows them with a property which will prove most valuable to them in their future destination. The woman whose time is her capital, and who does not waste it by negligence, forgetfulness, or irregularity in her work, may be considered to be twice as rich as she who has to run for every thing just at the moment it is required. If engaged as a household servant, how much is her value enhanced by habits which gain her the esteem and good-will of her employers, and by which she makes friends to herself through life. Good management may, in a degree, be obtained by all who will take a little trouble for its acquirement; the humblest situation—the most untaught intellect-are not excluded from its advantages. Anon.

SUCCESSIVE STATES OF HUMAN LIFE.

IN our seasons we have the grateful succession of the Spring, the Summer, and the Autumn: in our vegetation, the new leaf, the beauteous flower, and the nutritious fruit. These correspond with contemporaneous atmospherical changes of our system, and are followed by that seeming death of nature, which frosty and chilling Winter brings on.

The insect and reptile world exhibit similar changes. The Spring recalls or hatches their tribes into life and feeling, in a creeping state. They have their summer day of playful gaiety, varying in its duration, and enjoy existence in a winged form: their autumn is their time of depositing their eggs: and from that they depart into death or torpor. These four states of all that have vital being, growth, maturity, decline and death,-and these annual successions of the seasons, which are so much associated with the life, produce and suspension of vegetative nature,-have been made the characteristics of our terrestrial system.

In the human race, an analogous series of changes and states take place, with such striking, moral and intellectual results, as to excite our admiration at the kindness of our Creator, for having formed his human nature on a plan of such wise benevolence. By this He has appointed that every human being should have a season

of childhood; another of youth; a third of full maturity, with its parental produce; and a following period of decline and death, to pass into another state of existence elsewhere.

These laws are attached to all who are permitted to pass through the regular course of human life; though its Giver has reserved to Himself the resistless right of calling each of us away at whatever part of it He shall think proper, without completing the full progress of these successive states.-Sharon Turner.

THE NIGHT WATCH.

UNLESS the Lord the city keep,
Vain is the watchman's care;
If his protecting eye should sleep,
Our lot is dark despair!

But He sleeps not! His eye, His ear,

(How bless'd such an appeal,) Are open to the prayer, the tear,

Of all His creatures still.

The flower that owes to Him its birth,

He clothes in pure array;

And not a sparrow falls to earth
Ere its appointed day!

Can I, then, doubt His will or power
To guard me through the night?
To spread o'er my unconscious hour,
Visions of life and light?

Ah, no!-our Heavenly Watchman still
Stands near my humble bed;

The arm of His protecting will
Is thrown around my head.

It still will guard, though foes surround,
Though dangers hover near;
The broken reed His mercy bound,
His pitying voice will cheer.

In every place, at every hour,
Be this my sacred charm!

And, kept by His unsleeping power,
I cannot suffer harm.-Mrs. Tonge.

ADVICE TO THOSE ATTENDING ON SICKNESS. THOSE who attend the sick are above all things interested in having the sick-room kept clean. Idle nurses, who allow the sick person to remain with linen unchanged for several days, or with dirty sheets; or who take no pains to expose the blankets to the fresh air; or who allow offensive matters to remain about the bed; or who neglect to open the doors and windows; are fond of securing themselves, as they foolishly imagine, from all danger, by smelling salts or vinegar, or by camphor, or by keeping lozenges of some kind or other in the mouth; all which things are useless, whilst at the same time they render the air about a patient very disagreeable, and will conceal such bad smells as ought to be attended to and removed.

Nothing is more abominable than to see a nurse, careless of the continual attentions required by a person suffering all the torment of a fever, thinking only of her own eating and drinking, and doing both to excess; sometimes, indeed, excited by spirits or wine, of which there is always too unrestrained a use in a sick house, and then disturbing and fidgetting the patient about a hundred things which ought to have been done at another time.

The first thing, then, for those to do who are much about the sick, is to see that the room is clean-that there is no collection of clothes or rubbish under the bedthat the bed-linen and the patient's dress are not neglected, and that there is no bad smell in the room.

The nurses and attendants are obliged to be a great part of their time with the sick; this is attended with less danger to them than might be supposed, provided they keep the room and patient clean; live pretty well, without intemperance; are cheerful and active; and except when actually attending to the sick person, place themselves near the window or door, so as not to be exposed to the continued stream of air from the patient. It is also quite certain that the nurses and attendants become accustomed to the atmosphere of a sick room, and are not so liable as others to become affected with infectious disorders.

Those who are not in actual attendance on the sick, but who go to see them as friends and neighbours, should not