Over banks of bright seaweed We will gaze, from the sand-hills, At the church on the hill-side And then come back down. Singing: There dwells a loved one, But cruel is she! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea.' SONNETS. Austerity of Poetry. THAT SON of Italy who tried to blow, Fair was the bride, and on her front did glow Mid struggling sufferers, hurt to death, she lay! Such, poets, is your bride, the Muse! young, gay, Radiant, adorn'd outside; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within. A Picture at Newstead. WHAT made my heart, at Newstead, fullest swell ?— 'Twas not the thought of Byron, of his cry Stormily sweet, his Titan-agony; It was the sight of that Lord Arundel Who struck, in heat, his child he loved so well, They hang; the picture doth the story tell. Behold the stern, mail'd father, staff in hand! Methinks the woe, which made that father stand Rachel. I. IN Paris all look'd hot and like to fade; Sere, in the garden of the Tuileries, Sere with September, droop'd the chestnut-trees; 'Twas dawn, a brougham roll'd through the streets and made Halt at the white and silent colonnade Of the French Theatre. Worn with disease, Sate in the brougham and those blank walls survey'd. She follows the gay world, whose swarms have fled Ah, where the spirit its highest life hath led, II. UNTO a lonely villa, in a dell Above the fragrant warm Provençal shore, The beauty and the glorious art of Greece. III. SPRUNG from the blood of Israel's scatter'd race, To forms from antique Greece and Rome uptorn, Imparting life renew'd, oll classic grace; Then, soothing with thy Christian strain forlorn, She had-one power, which made her breast its home! Germany, France, Christ, Moses, Athens, Rome. Worldly Place. EVEN in a palace, life may be led well! Of common life, where, crowded up pell-mell, Some nobler, ampler stage of life to win, The aids to noble life are all within.' East London. 'TWAS August, and the fierce sun overhead I met a preacher there I knew, and said: 'Ill and o'erwork'd, how fare you in this scene ?’'Bravely!' said he; for I of late have been Much cheer'd with thoughts of Christ, the living bread!' O human soul! as long as thou canst so Set up a mark of everlasting light, Above the howling senses' ebb and flow, To cheer thee, and to right thee if thou roam- |