I.-MADHOUSE CELL Johannes Agricola in Meditation HERE'S heaven above, and night by night TH Trlook right through the gorgeous roof; No suns and moons though e'er so bright I keep the broods of stars aloof: For 'tis to God I speed so fast, I lie where I have always lain, God smiles as he has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The heavens, God thought on me his child; Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances every one To the minutest; ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere he fashioned star or sun. And having thus created me, Thus rooted me, he bade me grow, Guiltless for ever, like a tree That buds and blooms, nor seeks to know But sure that thought and word and deed Me, made because that love had need No poison-gourd foredoomed to stoop! I have God's warrant, could I blend To drink the mingled venoms up; Secure my nature will convert The draught to blossoming gladness fast: By unexhausted power to bless, And all their striving turned to sin. Priest, doctor, hermit, monk grown white With prayer, the broken-hearted nun, The martyr, the wan acolyte, The incense-swinging child,-undone Before God fashioned star or sun! God, whom I praise; how could I praise, If such as I might understand, Make out and reckon on his ways, And bargain for his love, and stand, Paying a price, at his right hand? II.-MADHOUSE CELL THE rain set early in to-night, ΤΗ The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate And, last, she sat down by my side And called me. When no voice replied, She put my arm about her waist, And made her smooth white shoulder bare, And all her yellow hair displaced, And, stooping, made my cheek lie there, And spread, o'er all, her yellow hair, Murmuring how she loved me-she Too weak, for all her heart's endeavour, From pride, and vainer ties dissever, For love of her, and all in vain: So, she was come through wind and rain. In one long yellow string I wound And I untightened next the tress That all it scorned at once is fled, And all night long we have not stirred, THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR 1842 ASI ride, as I ride, А With a full heart for my guide, So its tide rocks my side, As I ride, as I ride, That, as I were double-eyed, He, in whom our Tribes confide, As I ride, as I ride. As I ride, as I ride To our Chief and his Allied, Who dares chide my heart's pride As I ride, as I ride? Or are witnesses denied Through the desert waste and wide As I ride, as I ride? As I ride, as I ride, When an inner voice has cried, (As I ride, as I ride) O'er each visioned Homicide That came vaunting (has he lied?) To reside-where he died, As I ride, as I ride. As I ride, as I ride, Ne'er has spur my swift horse plied, As I ride, as I ride, Shows where sweat has sprung and dried, How has vied stride with stride As I ride, as I ride, Could I loose what Fate has tied, Ere I pried, she should hide As I ride, as I ride, All that's meant me: satisfied When the Prophet and the Bride THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN A Child's Story (WRITTEN FOR, AND INSCRIBED TO, W. M. THE YOUNGER) AMELIN Town's in Brunswick, HA By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; |