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To a Bee Found Dead in a FlowerAuthor(s): John FitzpatrickSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 18, No. 209 (Nov., 1890), p. 612Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20498121 .

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1 T'he I-rish Montthly.

TO A BEE FOUND DEAD IN A FLOWER.

ARELESS of sunset and the night-wind's stir, Though round thee fast the gathering shadows creep,

Still drinkest thou contentment at the deep

Fountain of flowers, 0 honeyed wanderer ?

Nay, never more, as in the days that were, The flowers for thee their kisses they shall keep; Embalmed with tbine own sweetness thou dost sleep In this pale, summer-scented sepulchre.

D)uty and pleasure were made one in thee

For death's approval; and the passer-by

Finds here cool comfort in life's noon-day heat; For so, my soul, fulfiing like the bee

My God-appointed labour, haply I

May some day fall on death and find it sweet.

Jon, FITZPATRIC1K, 0.M. 1.

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

1. The present occupant of the Chair of Ecclesiastical Hlistory in

the great ecclesiastical College of Maynooth, the Rev. Thomas

Gilmartin, has conferred a boon upon the students of that college,

and upon many others, by preparing a Manual of Church IHistory

(Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son). The first volume, which will, we hope

at no long interval, be followed by a second, brings the history of the

Church to the pontificate of Gregory VII. The matters discussed are

arranged with great clearness and order, displaying throughout the

entire work the practical experience of the author, who has greatly

assisted the reader by the full contents and index, and by the brief

headings of the paragraphs which run along the margins, ancd which, as the Professor remarks in his preface, will be found most useful to

students, especially when preparing for examinations. The style is

calm, lucid, and unaffected. We trust that the publishers will take

care to bring this excellent Manual of Church History under the

notice of the vast body of American clergy, for whose requirements it

is admirably adapted.

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