... the nigbt, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent -her hall our poweru To eke her ?? OUt. Onr very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our ...

... and in tbine eyes Look for all comfort? Listening to the soued Of thy gay innocent voice, have'I not found Intense delight, speaking it with my sighst? Thao didst not know it, but I shaped replies, That so thy converse, with unbroken round Of melody, as ...

... THE BEGGARS' PETITION. Piv the sorrows of a poor old set, Whose woful face. speak their inward gief; Wtose days are nuumber'd, and which few regret: 0 grant is pity and afford relief. These hate and gowns did ones commoand respect, These fags and staves ...

... 6v. eet smile, as 'twere a passing cloud, And such pure dignity of love atosved, Tlai iii mv eyes moy full soul strove to speak. Then knewv I how the spirits of the blest Communion hold in Heaven; sobeamed setene That pitying thought, by every eye unseen ...

... stream of life, Contentions rose, and left me tempest-tost, Oh tot me not in sight of Port be lost, Nor let my parting accents speak of strife; Stretch forth thy hand, in this my latest hour- Thou art my only hope-oh shield me with thy povv'r. ...

... Sprang forth this fair and fairy maiden, Like a bee with honey laden, They say that those sweet lips of thins Breathe not-to speak; , Thy very ears, that seem so fine, N'o sound can seek. And yet thy face beams with emotion, Rlestless as the waves of ocean ...

... eternsl lymn Arouitd His throsia-where dwrells your God? THE MARRIAGE VOW. FROMt TiE NEW YORtts SNICKFilBOlCKEIL' FOR JULY. SPeAK it not ligltly!-'t is a holy tbisig, A botid csdsirissg through °log distaost years, Wheii joy o'er thiline ibode is hoverinig ...

... Joshua Reynolds, in his memorable Discourses to the Royal Aca- demy, speaks of poetry as the painting of the mind; in one place Ito calls it poetic paionting, ard, in another, speaks of the harmony of nunmbers in poetry as beitig what colouring is in ...

... lies the Winter snow, And the Winter winds are wearily sighing; : Toll ye the church bells sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a dying. Old year, you must not die; You came to us so readily- 'You lived with us so steadily; ...

... the earth, and preparing those who speak it for this absorption. The young generation of the East Indies is learning it; and it is probable that within 50I years 65,000,000 of human beings of Asiatic race avll speak the language oin that continent. So ...

... less they brightly beas; And the moment near is gliding When on you their ray shall stream. Wlhk so said? E'en while we're speaking Lo I a light illumes tile skies: See the clouds around us breaking; Sce the golden sun arise. Thus, though bent to-day by ...

... carnage dread, When by a pitying hero shed, Thou add'st a jewel to his crown of fame: But, oh ! how diflerent the tear, '[hat speaks the trembling coward's fear ? At once his badge of infamy anti shame. W1hen lovers part, perhaps for ever, 'Ihou snark'st ...