SONG. Thou to whom I love to hearken, Let me think it innocent. Save thy toiling, spare thy treasure: Gifts and gold are naught to me; Tell to thee the high-wrought feeling, Paint to thee the deep sensation, Rapture in participation ; Yet but torture, if comprest In a lone, unfriended breast. Absent still! Ah, come and bless me! Now I nothing could deny thee. In a look if death there be, Come and I will gaze on thee! MARIA BROOKS. A DIRGE “O DIG a grave, and dig it deep, "And let it be five fathom low, Where winter winds may never blow!" "And let it be on yonder hill, Where grows the mountain daffodil!" "And plant it round with holy briers, We'll plant it round with holy briers, "And set it round with celandine, A DIRGE. "And let the ruddock build his nest The ruddock he shall build his nest "And warble his sweet wintry song O'er our dwelling all day long! And he shall warble his sweet song "Now, tender friends, my garments take, "And lay me by my true-love's side, We'll lay thee by thy true-love's side, "When I am dead, and buried be, Now thou art dead, we'll bury thee, Benedicite! WILLIAM STANLEY ROSCOE. As some poor piteous Lapp, who under firs Which bend and break with load of arctic snows, Has crept and crouched to watch when crimson glows Begin, feels in his veins the thrilling stirs LOVE NOT ME. Of warmer life, e'en while his fear deters In vain, and widening to the westward goes So watching, one by one, The faintest glimmers of the morn's gray light, The sleepless exiled heart waits for the bright LOVE NOT ME. LOVE not me for comely grace, For those may fail, or turn to ill - Keep therefore a true woman's eye, So hast thou the same reason still H. H. ANONYMOUS. |