is unavailing prayer; and the meaning, though imperfectly expressed, seems to have been, what remains when prayer avails not? 

 —Vide. Whitaker's History of Craven 

 Lady! what is the fate of those 

 Whose hopes and joys are failing? 

 Who, brooding over ceaseless woes, 

 Finds prayer is unavailing? 

 The mother heard his maddening tone, 

 She marked his look of horror; 

 She thought upon her absent son, 

 And answered, "endless sorrow." 

 How fair that morning star arose! 

 And bright and cloudless was its ray; 

 Ah! who could think that evening's close, 

 Would mark a frantic mother's woes, 

 And see a father's hopes decay? 

 Inhuman Chief! a judgment stern 

 Hath stopped thee in thy mad career; 

 And thou, who hast made thousands mourn. 

 Must shed, thyself, the hopeless tear, 

 And long, in helpless grief, deplore 

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