Chapter 31

"The flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow dies;

All that we wish to stay,

Tempts and then flies:

What is this world's delight?

Lightning that mocks the night,

Brief even as bright."

Shelley, "Mutability," 11. i-v.

The picture next presented, by the point of land that the unfortunate Hurons had selected for their last place of