18 MAY 1901, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."]

Sin,—Must not Henry Vaughan the Silurist have experienced some of the sensations lately referred to by some of your correspondents on this subject when he wrote his well-known

lines :—

"I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light

All calm, as it was bright;

And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov'd, in which the world

And all her train were hurrd " P