2 "With mery note, her loved salutes the mounting

larke."

3 "Unfold your cup in splendour, speak! Who deck'd you with that ruddy streak, And gilt your golden gems ?"

4 "Hark! from yon stately ranks, what laughter Mingling wild mirth with war's stern minstrelsy, His jest while each blithe comrade round him flings, And moves to death with military glee."

5 "Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main."

"I see these locks in silvery slips,

This drooping gait, this alter'd size."

7 "When pensive, it seem'd as if that very grace, That charm of all others was born with her face; Or when angry, for e'en in the tranquilest climes Light breezes will ruffle the flowers sometimes; The short, passing anger, but seemed to awaken New beauties, like flowers that are sweetest when shaken."

XXXVIII.

"Ships in thousands lay below,

And men in nations-all were his

He counted them at break of day,

But when the sun set, where were they?"

1 What greater blessing can we crave, than this?

2 One, who of old, alas! did much amiss.

3 "A thousand suns will stream on thee,
A thousand moons will shiver;
And by thy banks will hum the bee
For ever and for ever."

4 While sad and silent-dark as fateRolls on the "flood of deadly hate."

5

"His eyes on fire

In lightnings own'd his secret stings."

6 "Spotless of heart, to whom the unflattering voice Of freedom gave the noblest name of just."

XXXIX.

A poet, and one of his most beautiful creations.

1 What you and I should strive to do.

2

"Marked you not, how she
Began to scold, and raise up such a storm,
That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?"

3 Nor beasts alone, are subject to his will;-
He strikes the sounding chords; and lo! full fain
Hard-hearted rocks confess the master's skill-
A noble city rises on the plain!

4 "I dragg'd to earth both branch and bough, with crash

And merciless ravage; and the shady nook
Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower
Deform'd and sullied, patiently gave up
Their quiet being."

5 "Oh! why was I born to cry woe's me?"

6

"I deem this mind

Might wear as fair a jewel as is on earth,-
Not violating the bond of like to like."

7 Pluck me a bough from Apollo's consecrated groves.

8"A sunbeam thro' the narrow lattice fell Upon the snowy neck, and long dark hair,

As stooped the gentle head in meek devotion there."

10 Joy, joy for ever! my nephew is born!

But my coat-sleeves henceforward, how tattered and torn!

1

XL.

"Woods, hills and rivers, now are desolate,
Since he is gone, the which did all them grace.
And all the fields do wail their widow'd state
Since death their fairest flower did late deface.
The fairest flower in field that ever grew,
Was Astrophel that was, we all may rue."

"Now ymounted hie, From fiery wheeles of his faire chariot Hurled his beame so scorching cruell hot, That living creature mote it not abide."

2 "I see I see, a dark-eyed girl of Paradise,

And she waves a handkerchief—a kerchief of green."

3 "There in their stormy, cold, and midnight cell
The cheerless fishermen with stupor dwell,
Wrapt in their fur, they slumber life away-
And mimic with their lamps the light of day."

4

5

"The needy villains' general home, The common shore of Paris and of Rome."

แ "To the foot Treacherous and false, it smiles, and it is cold."

6 "When in thy wide career the world around, Thy brow three triumphs with their laurels bound; Who could believe that, for thy funeral pyre,

1

2

A shattered wreck would yield its smould'ring fire!"

XLI.

"Her numbers drew an angel down,

His raised a soul from hell."

“The memorial keepeth

Of all that the dark hand of destiny weaves."

"Darkly grand

Grasp'd the globe with iron hand."

3 See the flower with "velvet head

4

That bends not 'neath Sabrina's tread."

"Tameless, frank and free! In kindness warm, and fierce in danger known, Rough nature's children, humorous as she."

5 "Is it a sea? oh! no-'tis steadier far!

Is it a land? oh! no,-too fast 'tis driven !
It is, beneath its guiding, heavenly star,

An island floating towards the coast of heaven."

6 An engagement, shortly expressed, but binding.

7

"Even now—

Upon his future task intent,

His creed rehearsing to the roar
Of billows, by the lonely shore."

XLII.

A town, and a river on whose bank it stands.

1 A juvenile member of the game family.

2 Be careful how you keep it, or you might break it.

3 An African pond.

4 The painful in the pleasant, and the pleasant painful,-why?

From this I wake to smile ;-from that to sigh.

5 "I'm alone."

6 Beware, villain !-I await thee.

1

XLIII.

"Then up arose the Arab Sheikh, and sternly wav'd his hand.

'Shall any Christian dog presume to touch our sacred land?

Do Franks presume to think they'll see our noble city's walls?

No,-let him put that spade away, or else look out for squalls!'"

For underneath the herb was dry."

"By night we linger'd,

whom Ethiops

2 "Mystical fish of the seas, dread queen

honour."

3 "Nine and twenty stout and tall

4

Waited duteous on them all."

"Nodding o'er

The headlong steep, plunges in air; and rolls
With one vast length of ruin to the vale."

5 City in a northern land

Famed for church and palace fair;

And lake, on whose broad marge they stand,
Reflecting bright their image there.