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... might:ti I have partaken his meridian hour. Could I forsake when all was lost in night? Yes, I am captive in a desert isle, Far from my kindred, friends, outocst, forlornI Amid my griefs, hope seareely yields a smile, I For wish'dreturn, scenes of my youthful ...

A RIDDLE.—By LORD BYRON

... dimness and night shall be known no more. 'Tis true that the world has a woe and a charm, Whereby we feel a joy anda pain, But the Son of God has a conqueror's arm, That can sever us from the twain. Why when we nauseate earthly things, Have we ...

LITERATURE

... purify feeling, and, for a time at least, pro-. duce a rare and sweet abstraction from the grosser pur- suits of life. Under such influences we can pity the mee t man of the world. His importance dies with him. His occupations, enjoyments7 passions-are com ...

The Magic Glove, or the Bottle Imp

... influence N of modern Popes-Musical Plagiarists'-.Home, sweel homaen -sAicha~el Jie~y, tic. i I have this instant learned from the French journals (said n Ferdinand) that his Holiness of Rome has: been at length ga-. 1 tiered to his Fathers; and the ...