In Memoriam. - Mr. David F. Robinson,

Died at Hartford, January 26th, 1862, aged 61.     We did not think it would be so;--                                     We kept     The hope-lamp trimm'd and burning. Day by day     There came reports to cheer us;--and we thought     God in his goodness would not take away     So soon, another of that wasting band     Of worthies, whose example in our midst,     Precious and prized, we knew not how to spare.     These were our thoughts and prayers;--                         But He who reigns     Above the clouds had different purposes.                     *     *     *     *     *     On the low pillow where so late he mourn'd     His gifted first-born, in the prime of days,     Circled by all that makes life beautiful     And full of joy, his honored head is laid,--     The Sire and Son,--ne'er to be sunder'd more.     Yet his unblemish'd memory still survives,     And walks among us;--the upright intent,--     Firmness that conquer'd obstacles,--the zeal     For public good,--the warmth of charity,     And piety, that gave unwithering root     To every virtue.                         Of the pleasant home     Where his most fond affections shed their balm     And found response,--now in its deep eclipse     And desolate, it is not ours to speak;     Nor by a powerless sympathy invade     The sacredness of grief.                         'Twere fitter far     For faith to contemplate that glorious Home     Which knows no change, and lose itself in praise     Of Him, who to His faithful followers gives     Such blessed passport o'er the flood of Death,     That "where He is, there shall His servant be."