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LEAFLESS HOURS.

HE pale sun, through the spectral wood,
Gleams sparely, where I pass;
My footstep, silent as my mood,
Falls in the silent grass.

Only my shadow points before me,
Where I am moving now;

Only sad memories murmur o'er me

From every leafless bough :

And out of the nest of last year's Redbreast

Is stolen the very snow.

ROBERT, LORD LYTTON.

H roses for the flush of youth,
And laurel for the perfect prime;
But pluck an ivy branch for me
Grown old before my time.

Oh violets for the grave of youth,

And bay for those dead ere their prime; Give me the withered leaves I chose

Before in the old time.

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI.

I.

OR me no roseate garlands twine,`

But wear them, Dearest, in my stead;

Time has a whiter hand than thine,

And lays it on my head.

II.

Enough to know thy place on earth
Is there where roses latest die ;
To know the steps of youth and mirth
Are thine, that pass me by.

AUBREY DE VERE.

SIR HENRY TAYLOR.

CXXII.

BRING a garland for your head,
Of blossoms fresh and fair,

My own hands wound their white and red
To ring about your hair;

Here is a lily, here a rose,

A warm narcissus that scarce blows,
And fairer blossoms no man knows.

So crowned and chapleted with flowers,
I pray you be not proud;

For after brief and summer hours

Comes autumn with a shroud ;— Though fragrant as a flower you lie, You and your garland, by and by, Will fade and wither up and die!

EDMUND W. GOSSE.

THE FALLING ROSE.

ASS, falling rose !

Not now the glory of the spring is round thee;

Not now the air of summer round thee

blows;

Pallid and chill the autumn's mists have found thee;

Pass, falling rose !

Pass, falling rose!

Where are the songs that wooed thy glad unfolding?

Only the south the wood-dove's soft wail knows; Far southern eaves the swallow's nest are holding; Pass, falling rose !

Pass, falling rose !

Linger the blooms to birth thy glory wooing?
Linger the hues that lured thee to unclose?

Long, long, their leaves the dark earth have been

strewing;

Pass, falling rose !

WILLIAM COX BENNETT.

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