In Memoriam. - Mrs. Mary Mildenstein Robertson,

Wife of Rev. WILLIAM H. C. ROBERTSON, died at Magnolia, East Florida, January 13th, aged 34.     Our buds have faded,--winter's frigid breath         Sigh'd o'er their bosoms, and they fell away,     So in these household bowers the ice of death         Bids rose and lily ere their prime decay,     And see a Passion-Flower from tropic skies     Beneath our drifted snows, not without requiem lies.     A brilliant daughter of the Cuban vales         Of generous mind, impulsive, strong and high     Twined the home-tendril where our northern gales         Sweep grove and forest with their minstrelsy,     Labor'd for classic lore with studious part,     And planted friendship's germ in many an answering heart.     Her filial piety intensely warm         Whose gushing tenderness no limit knew,     Clasp'd day and night, a Mother's wasted form         And o'er her failing powers protection threw,     Cheering the darken'd soul with comfort sweet     And girding it anew, life's latest pang to meet.     Then came the sacred vow for good or ill,         The life-long study of another's joy,     The raptur'd and unutterable thrill         With which a mother greets her first-born boy,     The climax of those hopes and duties dear     Which Heaven's unerring hand accords to Woman's sphere.     And then the scene was ended, and she found         What here her ardent nature vainly sought,     Unwithering flowers and music's tuneful sound         Without a shadow or discordant thought,     And entered through a dear Redeemer's love     The never-changing clime of perfect rest above.