text: --Beautiful vision! long associate of my rest sweetener of the daily cares of life shade of the heavenly one--beloved Ellen! hover still around me and sustain my aching soul--carry me back to the earliest days of our young love quicken every moment with enthusiasm--be my fond companion once again and light up the old man's latest hour with the fire that ceased to burn when thou fleed'st heavenward! Thou hast been near me often since we parted here! Whose smile but thine has cheered the labouring pilgrim through the lagging day? In tribulation whose voice has whispered _peace_--whose eye hath shone upon him like a star tranquil and steady in the gloomy night? Linger yet and strengthen and hallow the feeble words that chronicle our love! It would be impossible to conceive a woman more eminently fitted to fulfil the duties of her station than the gentle creature whose heart it had been my happiness and fortune to make my own