Part 2 — IN MEMORIAM OF THE REV. FRANCIS A. BAKER.

All Saints' to-day! To-morrow is All Souls': To-morrow, blessed soul, I pray for thee. To-day, O sainted spirit! pray for me. One day—what years one day of life controls, My round eternity on that day rolls— Retired, we prayed together; my bent knee Before thee; thy hand raised to make me free, While, as through Moses, mercy wrath withholds. And well I mind me of succeeding joy, How thanks more rapt for God's dear love arose. When my full heart did thy blest words employ: And after, though unmarked the bashful boy, How sweet thy chance inquiry thrilled me, heaven knows! How close the bond there formed, heaven will disclose.