...towards the close of the volume. We copy the first, on account of its more convenient length : « Thro' thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy onee smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choak'J up the rose, which...

...feeling heart; as exists in the little extracts before him. , v On having Netestead Jlbbcy. * Thro" thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Havechoaked up the ruse which late,...

...to day ; yet a few years, and the blast of the desart comes ; it howls in thy empty court. OSSIAN. THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou the hall of my Fathers art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose which late...

...entering the old pile, he found it in that lone and awful condition so well described by a noble bard : " Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay. In thy once-smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have chok'd up the rose, which late...

...entering the old pile, he found it in that lone and awful condition so well described by a noble bard: "Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay. . . In thy once-smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have chok'd up the rose, which...

...poems, that not only the abbey itself was much neglected by his ancestors, but the grounds also : " Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once-smiling gardens the hemlock and thistle Now choke up the roses that bloom'd...

...yet a few years, and the blast of the desert routes; it howls in thy empty court. OSSiAIs. A HROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my Fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose, which...

...a few years, and the blast of the desert comes; it howls in thy empty court. • OSSIAS. J. HROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my Fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose, which...

...yet a few years and the blast of the desert comes ; it howls in thy empty court.— Ostian. THROCGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my Fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose which late...

...wilderness. The gardens were exactly as their late owner described them in his earliest lays : — ' Thro' thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling gardens the hemlock and thistle Now choke up the rose that late...