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And there one night, when stars were set,
Like gems in sapphire glowing,
And blooming gowans dripping wet
With tears from ether flowing;
She saw her brother pass along

With troop of fairies wending;

And love, than woman's fear more strong,
Swift wings to light feet lending,

She cleared the daisy without touch,
Nor bruised the cowslip bending;
What speed too great, what zeal too much,
For such a prize contending?

She gained the fairy-ring, and tried

Its magic round to enter;

Her brother waved her off, and sighed,
As 'twere a fruitless venture.

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Forgotten all that he had said,

Each thought by wonder banished, She stood as one entranced, or dead, "Till all the troop had vanished: And never more that brother's face Was looked upon by Mary; Oh! had she spoke the words of grace, "T had broke the spell of fairy.

At sound of that thrice blessed name,
Our beacon light still burning,
She would have proved her sister claim,
With him to day returning :
But now in crystal halls, he sings

66 'Aye waking O!"—and weeping, Baptizes with his tears the strings Of harp, sad measure keeping.

His mother dear and sisters three
Eclipse the brightest fairy;
Their human looks he'd rather see,
And talk and sing with Mary,
Than dwell within that magic place,
With all its glittering beauty,—
An alien from his home and race,
And lost to love and duty.

Ye children of the green earth, heed
An aged minstrel's story!—
Man is but like a broken reed,

Without the words of glory.

The spell, that sin has cast o'er all,
In His name must be broken,
Who gave, to rend the unholy thrall,
Salvation's word and token !

TREGOTHNAN CASTLE,

THE SEAT OF THE EARL OF FALMOUTH.

TREGOTHNAN, the seat of Lord Viscount Falmouth, became the property of the Boscawens by marriage with the heiress of Tregothnan in the fourteenth century. The Boscawen family had, at an early period, been settled at Boscawen in Burian, whence, however, they removed to Tregothnan shortly after the union of the families. Hugh Boscawen paid a fine of four marks for not attending at the coronation of Philip and Mary, to receive the honour of knighthood; Richard Boscawen paid a fine of 51. to be released from the order of the Bath at the creation of Prince Henry; but their descendant, Hugh Boscawen, was in 1720 created Baron of Boscawen-Rose, and Viscount Falmouth.

Tregothnan is situated in the parish of St. Michael Penkevil, in the east division of the hundred of Powder, and embraces in the estates surrounding it the possessions of several extinct families. The manor and barton of Penkevil belonged, in the reign of Edward I-, to the house of De Wen, from whom it is supposed it passed in marriage to the Penkevils. It is quite as probable, however, that it was the same family who had changed their name to Penkevil, from the place of their abode, a thing not unusual in those times. They flourished in

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