Hark! heard ye not the dreadful cry that rent the yielding air? And saw ye not the gathering gloom on faces of despair?

And mark ye not the astonished dead, slow-bursting from their graves,

Beneath whose feet the kindling earth heaves high like rolling waves!

And who is he on yon white horse, whose eyes are eyes of flame?
And on his head are many crowns, and on his thigh a name;
And he is clad in vesture red, dipped in his own best blood-
He was the trembling nations cry-he is the SON OF GOD!

CHANGES.

The billows run along in gold
Over the yielding main,

And when upon the shore unrolled,
They gather up again,

They get themselves a different form,
These children of the wind,
And, or in sunlight, or in storm,
Leave the green land behind.

Life's billows on life's changing sea,
Come always to Death's shore,
Some with a calm content, and free.
Some with a hollow roar;
They break and are no longer seen,
Yet still defying time,

Divided, and of different mien,
They roll from clime to clime.

All water courses find the main;
The main sinks back to earth
Life settles in the grave-again,
The grave hath life and birth;
Flowers bloom about the sleeping dust,
Grass grows from scattered clay;
And thus from death the spirit must
To life find back its way.

Life hath its range eternally,

Like water, changing forms;

The mists go upward from the sea,
And gather into storms;

The dew and rain came down again,

To 'fresh the drooping land;

So doth this life exalt and wane,

And, alter, and expand.

CRATER OF KIRAUEA, IN HAWAII.

The Volcano of Kirauea which is the subject of our plate, is situated in Hawaii, (Owyhee) the largest of the Sandwich Islands, about 25 miles from the sea shore. It was visited some time since by the Missionaries in those Islands, and described in the journal of their tour. The following description is collected from it.

"We travelled on, clearing every ohelo bush, that grew near the path, till about 2 o'clock, P. M. (August 1.) when the Crater of Kirauea all at once burst upon our view. We expected to have seen a mountain with a broad base, and rough indented sides, composed of loose slags, or streams of lava, and whose summit would have presented a rugged wall of scoria, forming the rim of a mighty chaldron. But instead of this, we found ourselves on the edge of a steep precipice, with a vast plain before us, fifteen or sixteen miles in circumference, and sunk from 200 to 400 feet below its original level. The surface of the plain below was uneven, and strewed over with large stones, and volcanic rocks; and in the centre of it was the great crater, a mile or a mile and a half distant from the precipice, on which we were standing."

"Led by our guides, we walked on to the north end of the ridge, where, the precipice being less steep, a descent to the plain below seemed practicable. It required, however, the greatest caution, as the stones and fragments of rock frequently gave way under our feet, and rolled down from above; and with all our care we did not reach the bottom without several falls and slight bruises. After walking some distance over the sunken plain,

which, in several places sounded hollow under our feet, we came suddenly to the edge of the great crater, where a spectacle, sublime and appalling, presented itself before us.

"Astonishment and awe for some moments deprived us of speech, and, like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with our eyes rivetted on the abyss below.

"Immediately before us yawned an immense gulf, in the form of a crescent, upwards of two miles in length, about a mile across, and apparently eight hundred feet deep. The bottom was filled with lava, and the south-west and northern parts of it were one vast flood of liquid fire, in a state of terrific ebullition, rolling to and fro its' fiery surge,' and flaming billows. Fiftyone craters, of varied form and size, rose like so many conical islands, from the surface of the burning lake.— Twenty-two constantly emitted columns of grey smoke, or pyramids of brilliant flame."

The sides of the gulf before us were perpendicular, for about four hundred feet; when there was a wide horizontal ledge of solid black lava, of irregular breadth, but extending completely round. Beneath this black ledge the sides sloped towards the centre, which was, as nearly as we could judge, 300 or 400 feet lower. It was evident that the crater had been recently filled with liquid lava up to this black ledge, and had, by some subterranean canal, emptied itself into the sea, or inundated the low land on the shore.

"After our first feelings of astonishment had subsided, we continued for about half an hour, contemplating a scene, which we felt it impossible to describe, filled with wonder and admiration at the almost overwhelming manifestation of the power of that dread Being who created the world, and who has declared that by fire he will one day destroy it.

"Removing then along the western side of the crater, till we reached the north end, we deposited the few provisions and little baggage that we had, and having quenched our thirst with water brought in canteens, we directed the natives to build a hut for us to pass the night in, in such a situation as to command a view of the burning lava; and while they were thus employed,