...recalled to my memory, beginning thus : " Now spring returns, but not to me returns, The vernal joys my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown." After four more stanzas in the same melancholy strain, he concludes the two last as follows:— " Farewell,...

...dissolution, a most interesting relic of hit amiable feelings and fortitude. FROM THE ELEGY ON SPRING. Now spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath some...

...written a poem on his own approaching death ; with the latter part of which I shall conclude this paper. Now spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal...Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all thejoys of life with health are flown. Starting and shiv'ring in th' unconstant wind, Meagre and pale,...

...labouring under a dangerous and lingering Illness.) 1 ' Now Spring returns ; but not to me return« The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast the dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown." BRUCE. THBÏCE has returning...

...written a poem on his approaching death ; •with the latter part of which 1 shall conclude this paper. Now spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal...taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are ilown. Starting and shiv'ringin th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, ..:••...

...IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH. Now Spring returns ; but not to m« returns The vernal joy my better yean have known. Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. BRUCE. MUTE in the dust, by Scotia's muse deplor'd, The tuneful tongue these plaintive numbers pour'd...

...ftore; No anxious wifhes e'er difturb'd my cafe; Heav'n gave content and health—I afk'd no more. 60 Now Spring returns: but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breaf t life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting atid fliiv'ring...

...Spring returns : but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breaft life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown. Starting and fhiv'ring in th' inconflant wind, 65: Meagre and pale, the ghoft of what I was, Beneath...

...fine morning, he applied to himself the lines written by Michael Bruce, just before his death : — Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys or life with health are flown. Now spring returns—but not to me returns The vernal joys my better...

...last thing he ever wrote, that it was a contrast which he viewed with the philosopby of a Christian. Now spring returns, but not to me returns The vernal...burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown : Starting and shiv'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost of what I was, Beneath...