But go, deceiver! go. Some day, perhaps, thou'lt waken The grief of hearts forsaken. Even now, though youth its bloom has shed, The few who loved thee once have fled, The smiling there, like light on graves, Go-go-though worlds were thine, For all thy guilty splendour! And days may come, thou false one! yet, On her who, in thy fortune's fall, And gladly died to prove thee all 'Tis weakness to upbraid thee; Than guilt and shame have made thee. WHILE HISTORY'S MUSE. WHILE History's Muse the memorial was keeping That illumed the whole volume, her Wellington's name! "Hail, Star of my Isle !" said the Spirit, all sparkling I've watched for some glory like thine to arise. One dishonouring blot On the wreath that encircles my Wellington's name! "Yet still the last crown of thy toils is remaining, Of her tears and her blood, Let the rainbow of Hope be her Wellington's name!" This alludes to a kind of Irish fairy, which is to be met with, they say, in the fields at dusk. As long as you keep your eyes upon him, he is fixed and in your power; but the moment you look away (and he is ingenious in furnishing some inducement), he vanishes. I had thought that this was the sprite which we call the Leprechaun, but a high authority upon such subjects, Lady Morgan (in a note upon her national and interesting novel, "O'Donnell ") has given a very different account of that goblin. OH, WHERE'S THE SLAVE. His bonds at first, Would pine beneath them slowly? At once may spring To the throne of Him who made it? Less dear the laurel growing The brows with victory glowing. And the foe we hate before us. COME, REST IN THIS BOSOM. COME, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer; Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here: Here still is the smile that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Thou hast called me thy Angel in moments of bliss, 'TIS GONE, AND FOR EVER. 'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking, Like Heaven's first dawn o'er the sleep of the deadWhen Man, from the slumber of ages awaking, Looked upward, and blessed the pure ray, ere it fled. 'Tis gone, and the gleams it has left of its burning But deepen the long night of bondage and mourning That dark o'er the kingdoms of earth is returning, And darkest of all, hapless Erin, o'er thee. For high was thy hope, when those glories were darting At once like a Sun-burst her banner unfurled. But shame on those tyrants who envied the blessing! The young hope of Freedom, baptized it in blood! I SAW FROM THE BEACH. I SAW from the beach, when the morning was shining, I came when the sun o'er that beach was declining, And such is the fate of our life's early promise, So passing the spring-tide of joy we have known; Ne'er tell me of glories serenely adorning The close of our day, the calm eve of our night:- Oh who would not welcome that moment's returning, FILL THE BUMPER FAIR. FILL the bumper fair! Every drop we sprinkle O'er the brow of Care Smooths away a wrinkle. • "The Sun-Burst" was the fanciful name given by the ancient Irish to the royal banner. Wit's electric flame Ne'er so swiftly passes It shoots from brimming glasses. Every drop we sprinkle Smooths away a wrinkle. Sages can, they say, Grasp the lightning's pinions, From the starred dominions:- And 'mid bumpers brightening, From the heaven of Wit Draw down all its lightning. Wouldst thou know what first For wine's celestial spirit? The living fires that warm us. To hide the pilfered fire in.- A bowl of Bacchus lying. Some drops were in that bowl, O'er that flame within us. Fill the bumper fair! Every drop we sprinkle O'er the brow of Care Smooths away a wrinkle. |