"Who measures ocean, rolled 'GOD is th' unreckoned ONE! God is the shoreless sea; 'Well may'st thou leaves that sweep Reckon, and stars above; Well may'st thou sound the deep But ne'er Divinest Love. Well may'st thou oceans mete— But ne'er the smile, so fair, SPIRITUAL LONGINGS. 'O Thou Love celestial, O Thou gentle hand of God, 'Here alone are sorrows, Here alone are idle cares, Fruitless aspirations, 'Here alone is labour, Battle sore when at the best; Jarrings late and early 'All of us, as blinded, Grope in dreary darkness round; 'O Thou Fount of glory! O Thou Well of every joy! All my soul irradiate, Confidence in Need.' 'Draw me, Love celestial, 'Love of Jesus! draw me, Draw me wholly to Thy shrine; 'Love of Jesus! mirror Of all life and light supreme, 'Soaring ever upwards To a home beyond the stars, 319 In the following lines the echo of the 'Suspiria de profundis' dies softly in the distance, and Faith, Hope, and Love regain their salutary sway : NO. LXXII. CONFIDENCE IN NEED. 'When out of darkness deep and dreary 'When on the ocean-deeps of error My bark to every tempest veers, And conscience with its voice of terror 'The anchor THOU !-life's dearest treasure, 'The anchor THOU! a stay the surest, O depth of Love, that knows no sounding Would that thy grace yet more abounding 'Would that, no longer tempest-driven, May steer our course, from error free! 'Oh, teach us this, Redeemer gracious! And with Thy light so pure and precious Light that, though sun and moon should fade, The stanzas we quote in conclusion show traces of the old fervid eloquence of Arndt's secular poetry. His 'Invocation 'to the Word' must be our last extract. 'O Word of God, O sword of might, How keen thy edge, how sharp and bright; It smites, it pierces, far and nigh. 'O Word of God, O sword of might, Gibraltar and Spain. 'O Word, so powerful and so true, 321 Certain other aspects of Arndt's intellectual exertions we cannot fitly at present indicate. To his professional career at Greifswald and Bonn, and his labours in the fields of philosophy and history, as well as to the external incidents of his life, we have not attempted, even in passing, to allude. Our object was, partly, to exhibit the more popular and influential phase of his peculiar poetic genius; mainly, to present him in the character of devotional poet; and in doing both, to pay a tardy but heartfelt tribute of respect to the memory of the illustrious dead. Requiescat in pace; and not in peace only, but renown. His birthplace was by the many-sounding waters of the stormy Baltic he died beside the glorious Rhine, the river he loved so well. True types of all his poetry, the scenes of his nativity and decease! In that poetry the rude, indomitable power of the half-Saxon, half-Scandinavian north is beautifully blended with southern warmth and sweetness, and the spirit of the Rhine and the spirit of the Baltic are felt to embrace and commingle. But whatever may be the view taken of the general significance and value of his poetry, only a single opinion, as experience has proved, can be entertained of his patriotic effusions: that they possess transcendent merit. Through them he has left an undying name behind him, and through them he has stamped the impress of his own noble spirit deep on the national heart of Germany. Finally, in that section of his works which we have been more minutely considering, he has superadded the palm of the Christian to the laurel of the bard and the hero, and proved how rich a hymnology may flower forth from the soul of one who, like Arndt, is simultaneously a poet, a patriot, and a believer. ART. IV.-The History of Gibraltar, and of its Political Relation to Events in Europe, from the Commencement of the Moorish Dynasty in Spain to the Last Morocco War. By CAPTAIN SAYER, Civil Magistrate at Gibraltar. London: Saunders, Ottley, & Co. IN the present position of Europe, and more especially in the unsettled condition of the countries watered by the Mediterranean Sea, any history of the fortress of Gibraltar must possess for a maritime nation no common interest. To England the history of the rock fortress is of nearer concernment. Gained by the valour of her soldiers and sailors, it has been in the pos session of the crown of England for nearly one hundred and sixty years; and after undergoing one of the most memorable and lengthened sieges of which there is any record in history-a siege which lasted three years, seven months, and twelve days -it is still possessed by that nation whose destiny it has been, and we trust it will ever be, to hold the trident of Neptune. No fortress in ancient or modern times has sustained so many sieges as Gibraltar. This alone would render the rock memorable in the annals of history. But when it is considered that the most protracted of these sieges has been sustained by Great Britain against the united arms of France and Spain, the interest of the volume before us becomes, so to speak, more personal and absorbing. We dwell on the details with a satisfaction not unmixed with a proper and justifiable pride, and we become more and more desirous of learning the earlier history of a place which has been beleaguered some fourteen or fifteen times by Moor, Spaniard, Englishman, and Gaul. Few are the works which have been written on Gibraltar in the English language. The records of its early history, under Mahometan rule, may be collected in the works of Gayangos, Condé, Ayala, and Montero, and there is a good deal touching its condition in the pages of the Jesuit Mariana, whose great history of Spain was originally written in Latin. But these are sealed books to the majority of English readers, and the folio edition of Mariana, printed in English a century and a half ago, is now rarely met with. Captain Stevens's work on Spain, in which some mention is also made of Gibraltar, is as difficult of procurement as Mariana; and we are acquainted with no other works than these, concerning the Mons Calpe, in the English language, if we except the History of the Herculean Straits,' given to the public by Colonel James in 1771, and Drinkwater's graphic History of 'the Siege,' published about fifteen years later, a work which had become very scarce till Mr. Murray ventured on a reprint, in 1845 or 1846, in a half-crown volume. Under these circumstances it was a happy thought of Captain Sayer to undertake the work at present before us. He has been for many years Civil Magistrate at Gibraltar, and in that capacity has had the fullest access to papers, records, and official documents of all kinds. Many original and unpublished letters from the Prince of Hesse, Sir George Eliott, the Duc de Crillen, Collingwood, and Lord Nelson, have been thrown open to him, and of these he has made a judicious use. Nor has he been content with such materials as he could find in the strong boxes of the rock itself. He has searched the Egerton, Leake, King, and other MSS., in the British Museum, and these papers have supplied |