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... UN BEl OVE D. Like a tree beside the river, Of her Life that rens from me. Do I lean mle, mriniruring ever In my Lovee idolatry And I reach out hands of blessing, And I stretch oat ?? of prayer; And with passionate caresstug Waste nay Life opon the air. InI mv ears the seren !iver Sing4, nnd aemiles ap in my face, And for ever end for ever Rine from my embrace. Spring by Spring the branches ...

Poetry

... -.14 -F attrq# SOLITUDE. Tu fade, ut silvas, ut amem 1o0a sala.-Orid. fAiL, ye deep solitudes and awful shades I Where pensive contemplation loves to dwell, When sober ev'Ding Into darkness fades, And sighs her mournful tale sad Philomel. t Oft on the lonely top of some wild steep, That frowns upon the hoarse-resounding sea, Let me, when wrapt in melancholy deep, Slow tread the spot to ...

Literature

... littraturt Lectures on the History of the French Revolution. By lillian Srnyth, Professor of Modern History in the Uni- versity of Cambridge. Nfew edition, with the Author's last Corrections. Vol. II. (Boasn's Standard Library).-Henry G. Bohn, York-street, Covent-garden, London. Tas is the concluding volume of Mr. Bohn's cheap edition of the above valuable text-book. Quintilian's Institutes of ...

Poetry

... 1v atnJ. A SNOW SHOWER.-BY BRYANT. HERE delicate snow-stars, out of the oloud Come floating downward in airy play. like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd That whiten by night the milky way; There broader and burlier masses fall- The sullen water buries them all; Flake after flake, All drowned In the dark and silent lake. And some, as on tenderwinge they glide, From their chilly birth ...

BRISTOL SEPTEMBER FAIRS

... BRISTOL SEPTENIBER FAIRS. Our annual autumn horse and cattle fairwas held on Monday and Tuesday in the Cattle-Market, Temple-mends. There was fully an average supply of store cattle, chiefly Devons, Hlerefords, and Irish, but, (owing, it is said, to shortness of keep up the country) the, demand for them was sluggish, and where sales were effected it was at lower rates. There was but a small ...

POETRY

... LOVE. (TnAer..xrTED FRtOM THE QERISTN OF E. GEMBM.) Nhere heart ill silence 5'10W8s vith love, 1Lay not a hiand aegeutle there; Quelicnh not the spark of heavenly fire, That were lnhallow'd deed-forbear. If on the oarth may ought be found Thlat uiprofan'd lud pure can prove, It is thle young and hopeful heart Blest in its tirst and glileless love. 0 grudge it not that spring-tide dream, So ...

POETRY,

... P(-Ivm.nT, - ?Xjxx%,. COME TO THlE ?? COME Come, come to the greenwood, come 1 Come, ere the cuckoo' snot( (les on the l come, whilst theohawthorn blows Ileiutifill summ1i1ler Os, tre And honey-bees sing in 0t10 ev11tioe te. Come, COMEI to t gree do tbe,bougb; Come., aud I'll crowntewihlae o Comewil whls hesot br Soft as a lute is theard, Waing the hi'a from its bose to the browv. Come, come ...

POETRY

... ROME. let ns honour the gods of the household alway, Love ever the heorth end its graces, The spot where serenely and cheerfully play The smiles of familiar faces; Where the calm, tender tones of affettion are heard, where the child's gladsome carol is ringing1 Where the heart's best affections ear quicken d, and stirr'd By the founts that are inwardly spliuging. Oh! what are the charms of the ...

Poetry

... --,i4ii TV. If* . TRODDEN FLOWRS.-_ ByF. TEzNYSON. There are some bearts that, like theloving vine, Cling to unkindly rocks and ruiwied towers; SpT ri to that suffer and do not repine- P'atient and swneet as lowly troddea Nowers, That from beneath the patser's heel arise And give back odorous breath instead of sighs.' Bunt there are other heuarts that will not feel The lowly love that haunts ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... LITERARY VARJETIES. THEWELS 5'FAermOO.~.The -geological - struotnife of oflsiea i Greecei is slinost entirely metfe h-e 4etlseare in the Vteiley of Jordan', which maust- be con- iEre inits own place. This rocky character of the whole -country has not been without its, hletorioal results. Vot only do°s the thirsty obaraeter of the whole Eaet give apeessliar ex. -pre8ssioa to any plaCes 'where ...

BRISLINGTON HORTICULTURAL SHOW

... I BRISLINGTON 4ORTICULTURAL SHOW. Th-au.ualD-texhlbitifol of garden-produce.-establidlhed some years ego at Brlsl .1 -t . 3 wit th ojct oif- stihulatlog the coigrso'th neB buhctt mr the culture of their goardens. tonic place on Tuesday, In thle g95 P.5of en ingto, House. hc, by thei liberality oftbrprrio. .PKig Esq., had been placed~at the disposal.Of the committee. Over thq oarrlsge.entrance ...

Poetry

... v?!?trq- ? TO AN EX-POPE-BY GSUSTo. AreNa at Rome, Pope Gregory inspires Ausonia's sons with scorn and mockery. 'This stormy age bath spoiled his colony Of penal fires, Till, barren now, th' indulgence field hath ceasta To bear the sequin crop of good old days; And soarce the sterile bier the sexton pays, Much less the priest. Oh thou, once called in vigour to maintain The living branches of ...