Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed. fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." Let him look to his favourite Wordsworth, and see what that career is which befits him who meditates the great achievements in verse, and we have no fear but that at some future day we shall behold him on higher ground than the beautiful effusions in the present volume. It has been our object to make our readers acquainted with a name that is well worth the knowing, and we have thus, we flatter ourselves, been helping Mr. Hartley Coleridge to gain some of his distant fame,-a commodity that loses none of its value because it comes from far away. We take our leave of him, for the present, by quoting a poem of exquisite finish and beauty, which we have reserved for a final impression :

"THE SABBATH DAY'S CHILD.

TO ELIZABETH, INFANT-DAUGHTER OF THE REV. SIR RICHARD
FLEMING, BART.

'Pure, precious drop of dear mortality,

Untainted fount of life's meandering stream,
Whose innocence is like the dewy beam

Of morn, a visible reality,

Holy and quiet as a hermit's dream,-
Unconscious witness to the promised birth
Of perfect good, that may not grow on earth
Nor be computed by the worldly worth

And stated limits of morality,

Fair type and pledge of full redemption given,

Through Him that saith, 'Of such is the kingdom of heaven.'

"Sweet infant, whom thy brooding parents love

For what thou art, and what they hope to see thee,

Unhallowed spirits and earth-born phantoms flee thee; Thy soft simplicity-a hovering dove,

That still keeps watch, from blight and bane to free thee; With its weak wings, in peaceful care outspread,

Fanning invisibly thy pillowed head

Strikes evil powers with reverential dread

Beyond the sulphurous bolts of fabled Jove,

Or whatsoe'er of amulet or charm

Fond Ignorance devised to save poor souls from harm.

"To see thee sleeping on thy mother's breast,

It were indeed a lovely sight to see :

Who would believe that restless sin can be

In the same world that holds such sinless rest?
Happy art thou, sweet babe, and happy she
Whose voice alone can still thy baby-cries,
Now still itself; yet pensive smiles, and sighs,
And the mute meanings of a mother's eyes,
Declare her thinking, deep felicity,-

A bliss, my babe, how much unlike to thine,
Mingled with earthly fears, yet cheered with hope divine!

"Thou breathing image of the life of nature!

Say, rather, image of a happy death;
For the vicissitudes of vital breath,
Of all infirmity the slave and creature,
That by the act of being perisheth,

Are far unlike that slumber's perfect peace
Which seems too absolute and pure to cease,
Or suffer diminution or increase,

Or change of hue, proportion, shape, or feature;
A calm, it seems, that is not, shall not be,
Save in the silent depths of calm eternity.

"A star reflected in a dimpling rill

That moves so slow it hardly moves at all,—
The shadow of a white-robed waterfall,
Seen in the lake beneath when all is still,-
A wandering cloud that, with its fleecy pall,

Whitens the lustre of an autumn moon,

A sudden breeze that cools the cheek of noon,
Not marked till missed, so soft it fades, and soon,—
Whatever else the fond inventive skill

Of Fancy may suggest,-cannot supply
Fit semblance of the sleeping life of infancy.

"Calm art thou as the blessed Sabbath eve,
The blessed Sabbath eve when thou wast born;
Yet sprightly as a summer Sabbath morn,
When, surely, 'twere a thing unmeet to grieve;
When ribbons gay the village-maids adorn,
And Sabbath music on the swelling gales
Floats to the farthest nooks of winding vales
And summons all the beauty of the dales.
Fit music this a stranger to receive;
And, lovely child, it rung to welcome thee,
Announcing thy approach with gladsome minstrelsy.

"So be thy life,—a gentle Sabbath, pure

From worthless strivings of the work-day earth! May time make good the omen of thy birth, Nor worldly care thy growing thoughts immure, Nor hard-eyed thrift usurp the throne of mirth On thy smooth brow. And, though fast-coming years Must bring their fated dower of maiden fears, Of timid blushes, sighs, and fertile tears,Soft sorrow's sweetest offspring, and her cure,May every day of thine be good and holy, And thy worst woe a pensive Sabbath melancholy !”

THE END.

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