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ROYAL SOLILOQUY.—Dec. 14, 1862

... up a fount of tears, Drp-dropping, as theraia incessant falls. His mage on the walls alone is leftb And-though it seems to speak,,my listeninsr ear -Conveys no sound from lips of speech bereft, That spoke with accents sweet, and words so dear! Bis image ...

Poetry

... Both high and low it elifoldeth ; Through it the souls of our fathers breathe, And the true heart fast it holdeth. Our hearts speak only our mother-tongue, They know no foreign translation 'Tis it alone, whether written or sung, Which from sleep can rouse ...

Poetry

... VAaBDELL. The ashes of the smouldering oak To men nio history tell, of how, in by-gone years, it grew, Luxuriant and well. They speak not of the summer breeze, rbat through its branches stray'd, When lowing herds and fleecy focks Reclined beneath its shade ...

Poetry

... Both high and low it enfoldeth ; Through it the souls of our fathers breathe, And the true heart fast it holdeth. Our hearts speak only our mother-tongue, They know no foreign translation; 'Tis it alone, whether written or sung, Which from sleep can rouse ...

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH

... has passed beyond the veil, Before the Judge who metes to men their dues, Mcii's checks, through English-speaking laads. turn pale, Far as the speaking wires can bear the news- Blanched at this suldenl snapping of a life, That seemed of all our lives to ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... coal-dealers, we would respectfully ask if means cannot be devised to have them see the error of their weighs ? An old maid, speaking of marriage, says it's like any ether disease-while tisere is life there is hope. If you have a pretty daughter, you will ...

POETRY

... still in their tomb. No wonder the spirit is breaking, Of those never daunted before, When their country looks on without speaking And sees them mown down by the score. Ah I is it that dazed by admiring, Their laurels their idols have won, They lose sight ...

EXHIBITION BANQUET AT THE MANSION HOUSE

... i want of mleans that 'prevented our carrying out our designs. 'As toJ the inside' of 'the building, I shall bhe loth -to speak .when so many will be able 'to. judge. for themselves I inr a very few days. As to, the architecture and -ornanen- 'trtion ...

LITERARY GLEANINGS

... shall eat the bread of f affliction and drink the waters of sorrow, yet because the - Lord hath put it into my month I must speak it. ' There are other preachers, yea too many, which preach and s persuade thee otherwise, feeding thy folly and frail - affections ...

Poetry

... tyrants insanity, Too long our weakness been strength to our spoilers. For freedom and right, gallant hearts wrestle ever, And speak ye to others, the proud words that won ye, Your rights conruer'd once shall bi wrung from ye 0! battle on bravely, the world's ...

Poetry

... tyrants ineanity, Too long our weakness been strength to our spoilers. For freedom and right, gallant hearts wrestle ever, And speak ye to others, the proud words that won ye, Your rights eonquerd once shall be wrung from ye never, 01 -battle on bravely,the ...

Poetry

... And his wife was left behind him forlorn, But his country he never disowned. It was treason against the Crown and State, To speak of the wrongs we endure, To pity the victims of SaXOn hate, And to plead the cause of the poor. It was treason to cry unite ...