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The Genius of our clime,

From his pine-embattled steep,

Shall hail the great sublime;

While the Tritons of the deep

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The rush-roof of an aged warrior rose,
Chief of the mountain tribes, high overhead,
The Andes, wild and desolate, were spread;
Where cold Sierras shot their icy spires,
And Chillan trailed its smoke and smoulder-
ing fires.

A glen beneath-a lonely spot of rest-
Hung, scarce discovered, like an eagle's nest.
Summer was in its prime; the parrot flocks
Darkened the passing sunshine on the rocks;
The chrysomel and purple butterfly,

Amid the clear blue light are wandering by;

With their conchs the kindred league shall The humming-bird, along the myrtle bowers,

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With twinkling wing is spinning o'er the flowers;

The woodpecker is heard with busy bill,
The mock-bird sings-and all beside is still.
And look! the cataract that bursts so high,
As not to mar the deep tranquility,

The tumult of its dashing falls suspends,
And, stealing drop by drop, in mist descends;
Through whose illumined spray and sprink-
ing dews,

Shine to the adverse sun the broken rainbow hues,

Checkering with partial shade, the beams of noon,

And arching the gray rock with wild festoon,
Here, its gay network and fantastic twine
The purple cogul threads from pine to pine,
And oft as the fresh airs of morning breathe,
Dips its long tendrils in the stream beneath.
There, through the trunks, with moss and
lichens white

The sunshine darts its interrupted light,
And 'mid the cedar's darksome bough, illumes,
With instant touch, the lori's scarlet plumes.
WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES.

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And the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow;
From coral rocks the sea-plants lift
Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow;
Their water is calm and still below,

For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are as bright as the stars that glow

In the motionless fields of upper air.
There with its waving blade of green,
The sea-flag streams through the silent water,
And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen
To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter.
There, with a slight and easy motion,

And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean
Are bending like corn on the upland lea.
And life, in rare and beautiful forms,
Is sporting amid those bowers of stone,
And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms
Has made the top of the wave his own.
And when the ship from his fury flies,
Where the myriad voices of ocean roar,
When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies,
And demons are waiting the wreck on shore;
Then, far below, in the peaceful sea,
The purple mullet and gold-fish rove,
Where the waters murmur tranquilly

The fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep Through the bending twigs of the coral grove.

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ROAD plains, blue waters, hills and val- Brown-pillared groves and green-arched alleys,

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leys,

That ring with anthems of the free,

That Freedom's holiest temples be! These forest aisles are full of story;

Here many a one of old renown
First sought the meteor light of glory,
And mid its transient flash went down.

Historic names forever greet us,

Where'er our wandering way we thread; Familiar forms and faces meet us,

As, living, walk with us the dead.
Man's fame, so often evanescent,

Links here with thoughts and things that
last;

And all the bright and teeming Present
Thrills with the great and glorious Past.
WILLIAM. D. GALLAGHER.

AN ENGLISH MANSION.
(From "Reginald Dalton."

HEY halted to bait their horses at a little village on the main coast of the Palatinate, and then pursued their course leisurely through a rich and level country, until the groves of Grypherwast received them amidst all the breathless splendour of a noble sunset. It would be difficult to express the emotions with which young Reginald regarded, for the first time, the ancient demesne of his race. The scene was one which a stranger, of years and experience very superior to his, might have been pardoned for contemplating with some enthusiasm, but to him the first glimpse of the venerable front, embosomed amidst its

"Old contemporary trees,"

was the more than realization of cherished dreams. Involuntarily he drew in his rein, and the whole party as involuntarily following the motion, they approached the gateway together at the slowest pace.

The gateway is almost in the heart of the village, for the hall of Grypherwast had been reared long before English gentlemen conceived it to be a point of dignity to have no humble roofs near their own. A beautiful stream runs hard by, and the hamlet is almost within the arms of the princely forest, whose ancient oaks, and beeches, and gigantic pine-trees, darken and ennoble the aspect of the whole surrounding region. The peasantry, who watch the flocks and herds in those deep and grassy glades-the fishermen, who draw their subsistence from the clear waters of the river-and the woodmen, whose axes resound all day long among the inexhaustible thickets, are the sole inhabitants of the simple place. Over their cottages the hall of Grypherwast has predominated for many long centuries, a true old northern manorhouse, not devoid of a certain magnificence in its general aspect, though making slender pretentions to anything like elegance in its details. The central tower, square, massy, rude, and almost destitute of windows, recalls the knightly and troubled period of the old Border wars; while the overshadowing roofs, carved balconies and multifarious chimneys scattered over the rest of the building, attest the successive influence of many more or less tasteful generations. Excepting in the original baronial tower, the upper parts of the house are all formed of oak, but this with such an air of strength and solidity as might well shame many modern structures raised of better materials. Nothing could be more perfectly in harmony with the whole character of the place than the autumnal brownness of the stately trees around. The same descending rays were tinging with rich lustre the outlines of their bare trunks, and the projecting edges of the old-fashioned bay-windows which they sheltered; and some rooks of very old family were cawing overhead almost in the midst of the hospitable smoke-wreaths. Within a couple of yards from the door of the house an eminently respectable-looking old man, in a powdered wig and very rich livery of blue and scarlet, was sitting on a garden-chair with a pipe in his mouth, and a cool tankard within his reach upon the ground. JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART.

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For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.

I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling.

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel

With many a silvery water-break
Above the golden gravel.

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;

I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam glance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;

I linger by my shingly bars,
I loiter round my cresses.

And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go.
But I go on forever.

ALFRED TENNYSON.

A SUMMER SABBATH WALK. ELIGHTFUL is this loneliness; it calms My heart; pleasant the cool beneath these elms,

That throw across the streams a moveless

shade.

Here Nature in her midnoon whisper speaks; How peaceful every sound! the ring-dove's plaint,

Moaned from the twilight center of the grove,
While every other woodland lay is mute,
Save when the wren flits from her down-cov-

ed nest,

And from the root-sprig trills her ditty clear; The grasshopper's oft-pausing chirp; the

buzz,

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