These dreams of summer come to bid me find The forest's shade, the wild bird's melody, While summer's rosy wreaths for me are twined, While summer's fragrance lingers on the wind, And green fields wait for me. George Arnold. UNDER THE WILLOWS. HIS willow is as old to me as life; ΤΗ And under it full often have I stretched, Feeling the warm earth like a thing alive, And gathering virtue in at every pore, Till it possessed me wholly, and thought ceased, My soul went forth, and, mingling with the tree, Dilated in the broad blue over all. I was the wind that dappled the lush grass, J. R. Lowell. WHAT JUBAL SAW. 15 H' WHAT JUBAL SAW. E took a raft, and travelled with the stream Southward for many a league, till he might deem He saw at last the pillars of the sky, Beholding mountains whose white majesty Rushed through him as new awe, and made new song That swept with fuller wave the chords along, And ever as he travelled he would climb To give me footing, but, instead, this main Like myriad maddened horses thundering o'er the plain." George Eliot. C THE SEA-LIMITS. ONSIDER the sea's listless chime : Time's self it is made audibleThe murmur of the earth's own shell. Secret continuance sublime Is the sea's end. Our sight may pass No furlong further. Since time was, This sound hath told the lapse of time. No quiet which is death's-it hath Listen alone beside the sea, Listen alone among the woods; Shall have one sound alike to thee. Hark where the murmurs of thronged men Surge and sink back and surge again,— Still the one voice of wave and tree. Gather a shell from the strewn beach, THE FISHER-BOY. The echo of the whole sea's speech. D. G. Rossetti. 17 THE FISHER-BOY. Y life is like a stroll upon the beach, MY As near the ocean's edge as I can go : My tardy steps its waves sometimes o'erreach; Sometimes I stay to let them overflow. My sole employment is, and scrupulous care, I have but few companions on the shore : The middle sea contains no crimson dulse; And I converse with many a shipwrecked crew. "THE HILLS OF THE LORD.” OD ploughed one day with an earthquake, The huddling plains upstarted, The hills were all aleap! But that is the mountains' secret Are the dream-words of their rest. He hath made them the haunt of beauty, He spreadeth His mornings on them; His thunders tread in music His winds bring messages to them— Green tribes from far come trooping, |