In Memoriam. - Rev. Dr. David Smith,

For many years Pastor of a Church in Durham, Conn., died at Fair Haven, March 3d, 1862, aged 94.     The transcript of a long, unblemish'd life     Replete with happiness and holiness,     Is a fair page to look upon with love     In this world's volume oft defaced by sin,     And marr'd with misery. And he, who laid     His earthly vestments down this day, doth leave     Such tablet for the heart.                         'Twas good to see     That what he preach'd to others, he portray'd     Before them in example, that the eye     Adding its stronger comment to the ear,     Might lend new impulse to the flock he led     Toward the Great Shepherd's fold.                     *     *     *     *     *                         Along his path     Sorrows he met, but such as wrought him gain,     And joys that made not weak his hold on heaven,     But touch'd his brow with sunbeams, and his heart     With warmer charity.                         Year after year,     Home's duties and its hospitalities     Were blent with cheerfulness, and when the chill     Of hoary Time approach'd he took no part     In that repulsive criticism of age,     Pronouncing with a frown, the former days     Better than these.                         The florid glow that tints     The cheek of health, which youth perchance, accounts     Its own peculiar beauty, dwelt with him     Till more than fourscore years and ten achiev'd     Their patriarch circle, while the pleasant smile     And genial manner, casting light around     His venerable age, conspired to make     His company desirable to all.     And so beloved on earth and waited for     Above, he closed this mortal pilgrimage     In perfect peace.