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POWER OF MUSIC.

Now, Coaches and Chariots! roar on like a stream Here are twenty souls happy as souls in a dream:

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kes, then, a deep and earnest thought the blissful | Seem to participate, the whilst they view Their own far-stretching arms and leafy heads

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ath reject all show of pride, admits no outward case not of this noisy world, but silent and divine!

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ting Wood-nymph, wearied by the chase. Lady! fairer in thy Poet's sight

farest spiritual Creature of the groves, ach—and, thus invited, crown with rest non-tide hour:- though truly some there are footsteps superstitiously avoid

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That, for a brief space, checks the hurrying stream!

WRITTEN IN MARCH,

WHILE RESTING ON THE BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OF BROTHER'S WATER.

THE cock is crowing,

The stream is flowing,
The small birds twitter,
The lake doth glitter,

The green field sleeps in the sun;
The oldest and youngest

Are at work with the strongest;

The cattle are grazing,

Their heads never raising;

There are forty feeding like one!

Like an army defeated

The Snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill

On the top of the bare hill;

The Ploughhoy is whooping-anon-anon:
There's joy in the mountains;
There's life in the fountains;
Small clouds are sailing,
Blue sky prevailing;
The rain is over and gone!

GIPSIES.

YET are they here the same unbroken knot
Of human Beings, in the self-same spot!

Men, Women, Children, yea the frame
Of the whole Spectacle the same!
Only their fire seems bolder, yielding light,
Now deep and red, the colouring of night;
That on their Gipsy-faces falls,

Their bed of straw and blanket-walls. -Twelve hours, twelve bounteous hours, are gone

while I

Have been a Traveller under open sky,

Much witnessing of change and cheer,
Yet as I left I find them here!

The weary Sun betook himself to rest.
-Then issued Vesper from the fulgent West,
Outshining like a visible God

The glorious path in which he trod. And now, ascending, after one dark hour And one night's diminution of her power, Behold the mighty Moon! this way She looks as if at them- but they

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He was a lovely Youth! I guess

The panther in the Wilderness
Was not so fair as he;

And, when he chose to sport and play,
No dolphin ever was so gay
Upon the tropic sea.

Among the Indians he had fought
And with him many tales he brought
Of pleasure and of fear

Such tales as told to any Maid

By such a Youth, in the green shade, Were perilous to hear.

He told of Girls -a happy rout!

Who quit their fold with dance and shout,
Their pleasant Indian Town,

To gather strawberries all day long;
Returning with a choral song
When daylight is gone down.

He spake of plants divine and strange
That every hour their blossoms change,.
Ten thousand lovely hues!

With budding, fading, faded flowers
They stand the wonder of the bowers
From morn to evening dews.

He told of the Magnolia*, spread
High as a cloud, high over head!

The Cypress and her spire;

-Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam

Cover a hundred leagues, and seem

To set the hills on fire.†

The Youth of green savannahs spake,
And many an endless, endless lake,
With all its fairy crowds

Of islands, that together lie
As quietly as spots of sky
Among the evening clouds.

And then he said, "How sweet it were
A fisher or a hunter there,

A gardener in the shade,

Still wandering with an easy mind

To build a household fire, and find

A home in every glade!

"What days and what sweet years! Ah me! Our life were life indeed, with thee

So passed in quiet bliss,

And all the while," said he, "to, know

That we were in a world of woe,

On such an earth as this!"

*Magnolia grandiflora.

+The splendid appearance of these scarlet flowers, which ar scattered with such profusion over the Hills in the Southern parts of North America, is frequently mentioned by Bartram in his Travels.

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