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Again! again! again!

And the havoc did not slack,

Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back:

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EARL MARCH looked on his dying

child,

And smit with grief to view her

Their shots along the deep siowly The youth," he cried, "whom I ex

boom;

Then ceased- and all is wail,

As they strike the shattered sail;
Or, in conflagration pale,
Light the gloom.

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Brave hearts! to Britain's pride
Once so faithful and so true,
On the deck of fame that died
With the gallant, good Riou:

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iled,

Shall be restored to woo her."

She's at the window many an hour
His coming to discover:
And he looks up to Ellen's bower,
And she looks on her lover —

But ah! so pale he knew her not, Though her smile on him was dwelling, "And am I then forgot - forgot ?" It broke the heart of Ellen.

In vain he weeps, in vain he sighs,
Her cheek is cold as ashes;

Nor love's own kiss shall wake those eyes

To lift their silken lashes.

TRIBUTE TO VICTORIA.

VICTORIA'S Sceptre o'er the deep Has touched, and broken slavery's chain;

Yet, strange magician! she enslaves Our hearts within her own domain.

Her spirit is devout, and burns
With thoughts averse to bigotry;
Yet she, herself the idol, turns
Our thoughts into idolatry,

[From the Pleasures of Hope.]

THE DISTANT IN NATURE AND EXPERIENCE.

AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow

Soft sigh the winds of heaven o'er Spans with bright arch the glittering

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[From The Pleasures of Hope.]
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.

LET winter come! let polar spirits sweep

The darkening world, and tempesttroubled deep!

Though boundless snows the withered heath deform,

And the dim sun scarce wanders through the storm,

Yet shall the smile of social love repay,

With mental light, the melancholy day!

And, when its short and sullen noon is o'er,

The ice-chained waters slumbering on the shore,

How bright the fagots in his little hall Blaze on the hearth, and warm his pictured wall!

How blest he names, in Love's familiar tone,

The kind, fair friend, by nature marked his own;

And, in the waveless mirror of his mind,

Views the fleet years of pleasure left behind,

Since when her empire o'er his heart began!

Since first he called her his before the holy man!

And sweep the furrowed lines of Trim the gay taper in his rustic dome,

anxious thought away.

[From The Pleasures of Hope.]
HOPE IN ADVERSITY.

BRIGHT as the pillar rose at Heaven's
command,
When Israel marched along the des-
ert land,

Blazed through the night on lonely wilds afar,

And told the path, -a never-setting

star:

So, heavenly Genius, in thy course divine.

Hope is thy star, her light is ever thine.

And light the wintry paradise of

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strife

Be all the faithless charter of my life, If Chance awakened, inexorable power This frail and feverish being of an hour;

Doomed o'er the world's precarious scene to sweep,

Swift as the tempest travels on the deep,

To know Delight but by her parting smile,

And toil, and wish, and weep a little while;

Then melt, ye elements, that formed in vain

This troubled pulse and visionary brain!

Fade, ye wild flowers, memorials of my doom,

And sink, ye stars, that light me to the tomb!

Truth, ever lovely, since the world began,

The foe of tyrants, and the friend of

man,

How can thy words from balmy slumber start

Reposing Virtue pillowed on the

heart!

Yet, if thy voice the note of thunder Oh! let her read, nor loudly, nor rolled, elate, And that were true which Nature The doom that bars us from a better

never told,

Let Wisdom smile not on her conquered field

No rapture dawns, no treasure is revealed!

fate;

But, sad as angels for the good man's sin,

Weep to record, and blush to give it in!

THOMAS CAREW.

DISDAIN RETURNED.

HE that loves a rosy cheek
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from starlike eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires;
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.

But a smooth and steadfast mind,
Gentle thoughts and calm desires,
Hearts with equal love combined,

Kindle never-dying fires:-
Where these are not, I despise
Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes.

No tears, Celia, now shall win,
My resolved heart to return;
I have searched the soul within
And find nought but pride
scorn;

I have learned thy arts, and now
Can disdain as much as thou!

ASK ME NO MORE.

Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose,
For in your beauty's orient deep
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep,

Ask me no more whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day,
For, in pure love, heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your hair.

Ask me no more whither doth haste
The nightingale when May is past,
For in your sweet dividing throat
She winters and keeps warm her note.

Ask me no more where those stars light
That downwards fall in dead of night,
For in your eyes they sit, and there
Fixed become as in their sphere.

and Ask me no more if east or west
The phoenix builds her spicy nest,
For unto you at last she flies,
And in your fragrant bosom dies.

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SOLITUDE! Life is inviolate solitude;

Eye looks in eye with a question

ing wonder,

Why are we thus in our meeting asunder?

Never was truth so apart from the Why are our pulses so slow and so

dreaming

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dull?

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