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She leaned pensively on the little open caseht fixed her eyes on the heaven, whose blue unclouded concave was

studded thick with stars, the worlds, perhaps, of spirits, unsphered

ofthe boundless aether, her

thoughts rose, as before, towards the sublimity of the Deity, and to the

contemplation of futurity No busy note of this world interrupted the

course of her er had

retired to his home The still air seemed scarcely to breathe upon the

woods, and, now and then, the distant sound of a solitary sheep-bell,

or of a closing caseth, even

this hint of hu was heard no more Elevated and enwrapt, while

her eyes were often ith tears of sublime devotion and soleloo over the

earth, and the planet, which La Voisin had pointed out, sunk below the