A child's remembrance or a child's delight Drank deep in dreams of, or in present sight Exulted as the sunrise in its might.

The shadowed lawns, the shadowing pines, the ways

That wind and wander through a world of flowers,

The radiant orchard where the glad sun's gaze

Dwells, and makes most of all his happiest hours, The field that laughs beneath the cliff that towers, The splendor of the slumber that enthralls With sunbright peace the world within their walls, Are symbols yet of years that love recalls.

But scarce the sovereign symbol of the sea,
That clasps about the loveliest land alive
With loveliness more wonderful, may be

Fit sign to show what radiant dreams survive
Of suns that set not with the years that drive
Like mists before the blast of dawn, but still
Through clouds and gusts of change that chafe and
chill

Lift up the light that mocks their wrathful will.

A light unshaken of the wind of time,

That laughs upon the thunder and the threat
Of years that thicken and of clouds that climb
To put the stars out that they see not set,
And bid sweet memory's rapturous faith forget.
But not the lightning shafts of change can slay
The life of light that dies not with the day,
The glad live past that cannot pass away.

The many colored joys of dawn and noon
That lit with love a child's life and a boy's,
And kept a man's in concord and in tune

With life-long music of memorial joys
Where thought held life and dream in equipoise,
Even now make child and boy and man seem one,
And days that dawned beneath the last year's sun
As days that even ere childhood died were done.

The sun to sport in and the cliffs to scale,

The sea to clasp and wrestle with, till breath For rapture more than weariness would fail,

All-golden gifts of dawn, whose record saith
That time nor change may turn their life to death.
Live not in loving thought alone, though there
The life they live be lovelier than they were
When clothed in present light and actual air.
Sun, moon, and stars behold the land and sea
No less than ever lovely, bright as hope
Could hover, or as happiness be;

Fair as of old the lawns to seaward slope,
The fields to seaward slant and close and ope;

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But where of old from strong and sleepless wells
The exulting fountains fed their shapely shells,
Where light once dwelt in water, dust now dwells.

The springs of earth may slacken, and the sun
Find no more laughing lustre to relume
Where once the sunlight and the spring seemed
one;

But not on heart or soul may time or doom

Cast aught of drought or lower with aught of

gloom

If past and future, hope and memory, be
Ringed round about with love, fast bound and free,
As all the world is girdled with the sea.

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. -From The Sisters: A Tragedy.

AN ELEGY FOR WHITTIER.

IN vain for him the buds shall burst their shield,
And chestnut-leaves their tiny tents unfold;
In vain the early violets dot the field:
His heart is cold.

The rose no more shall meet his ardent gaze, Like tender blushes of the maiden June, For summer birds repeat for him their laysHe hears no tune.

Full-breasted Autumn, for the lusty throng
The harvest-feast shall spread with liberal hand;
But he no more shall join their harvest-song,
Nor understand.

When the faint pulsings of the earth shall cease,
And on her naked form the shroud be spread,
He, like the snow-bound world, shall rest in peace,
For he is dead.

WALTER STORRS BIGelow. -American Gardening, Nov., 1892.

LORD TENNYSON'S LAST POETRY.

There on top of the down,

The wild heather round me and over me June's high blue,

When I looked at the bracken so bright and the heather so brown,

I thought to myself I would offer this book to you; This, and my love together,

To you that are seventy-seven. With a faith as clear as the heights of the Juneblue heaven,

And a fancy as summer-new As the green of the bracken amid the gloom of the heather.

NOTES.

READ. "Sheridan's Ride" has been the most frequently quoted of Read's poems. It was written during the civil war. General Sheridan had defeated General Early at the battle of Winchester, 1864, and had driven him beyond Cedar Creek. General Early recovered his position, got his men into line, and turning upon his adversary, came near defeating Sheridan's army. Sheridan, hearing of the battle, rode rapidly up the valley, arriving at a most critical time. He rallied his men, and again succeeded in putting the enemy to rout. The poem was written shortly after, and soon found its way into almost every publication in the country, even including school readers.

IBID.

"America." This passage was suggested by Power's statue of "America."

JACKSON. Emerson, when asked if Helen Hunt was not our best female poet, replied: "Why not omit the word female?"

WARE. "When Nature Wreathed Her Rosy Bowers," is Mrs. Ware's first attempt at versemaking, and grew out of a desire to emulate her brother, who had already achieved some reputation as a poet. "My Brother" and "Beautiful Rest," are tributes to her brother.

HARRIS. "Stanzas was written not a great while before Mr. Harris' death.

PHELPS. 'Something for Thee." This hymn, written in 1862, was first published in the Watchman and Reflector, and was copied into various other religious papers. Later, Rev. Robert Lowry requested Dr. Phelps to furnish some hymns for a collection he was preparing. Among other hymns placed in his hands was this one, and it appeared in "Pure Gold," with the excellent music which Dr. Lowry composed for it, and with which it will always be associated. It also appeared in "Gospel Hymns," No. 1, and later in numerous collections in this land and lands across the sea. It has been a most helpful hymn to many hearts. A minister in Glasgow says: "A large family joined my church lately. The mother told me she had first of all happened to drop into our chapel, while a stranger in Glasgow, when she was quite overcome, as if her heart were lifted up, with the people singing

'Something for Thee.'"

Professor W. F. Sherwin, a few years ago, was holding a Sunday-school Institute in Maine, and during the singing of the third verse of this hymn a

young lawyer was so much affected that it was the means of changing all his plans for life, and consecrating himself to Christ's service, he devoted himself with his whole heart to evangelistic work. Says Dr. Phelps: "I have had requests for autograph copies of this hymn and many testimonies concerning its helpfulness to others. I have heard it sung in various and distant parts of our land, on ocean steamers, and in other countries. A friend recently showed me a hymn book in the Swedish language containing it.”

At the celebration of the author's seventieth birthday, with other letters, the following words of sincere congratulation from Rev. Robert Lowry, D. D., dated in Plainfield, N. J., May 13, 1886, were read: "It is worth living seventy years even if nothing comes of it but one such hymn as

Savior! thy dying love Thou gavest me.

Happy is the man who can produce one song which the world will keep on singing after its author shall have passed away. May the tuneful harp preserve its strings for many a long year yet, and the last song reach us only when it is time for the singer to take his place in the heavenly choir."

At the close of the reading of Dr. Lowry's letter, the congregation, filling the First Baptist Church, New Haven, Conn., at once arose and sang the hymn.

As here printed the hymn, slightly revised, is in the form the writer desires it to be used in collections or elsewhere. S. D. P.

TENNYSON. This engraving is made from the last photograph taken of Lord Tennyson, in 1890.

IBID "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was written after reading the first report of the Times correspondent, where only 607 sabres are are mentioned as having taken part in the charge, and was first published in the Examiner, December 9th, 1854. The version now selected is that which the soldiers themselves selected from several different readings, and sang by their watch-fires in the Crimea. It bears many points of resemblance to Drayton's ballad of "The Battle of Agincourt." W. D. A.

IBID. "Crossing the Bar" was set to music by Lady Tennyson, and afterwards sang at Lord Tennyson's funeral.

IBID. "The Golden Year" was published in 1842.

IBID. "The Two Voices" was published in 1842. It is a philosophical poem, the "voices" being those of faith and doubt.

IBID. "Merlin and Vivien." Merlin was the sage in "The Idylls." It was also the name under which Tennyson contributed to the Examiner in 1852, a poem since reprinted, entitled "The Third of February."" It seems to have been a favorite with him and no doubt it originated in the old romance founded mainly on the history of Geoffrey of Monmouth.

IBID. "In Memoriam," as is well known, is a pen-picture of the religious doubts and misgivings through which Tennyson passed after the death of Arthur Hallam.

IBID. "The Princess was published in 1847. This, however, is merely the rude sketch of "The Princess" we now read. The poem has been entirely rewritten since it first appeared, and the songs, as well as the account of the Princess's weird seizure, are an afterthought. "It is," says Stedman, “as he entitles it, a medley, constructed of ancient and modern materials-a show of mediæval pomp and movement, observed through an atmosphere of latter-day thought and emotion. The poet, in his prelude, anticipates every striction and to me the anachronisms and impossibilities of the story seem not only lawful, but attractive. Tennyson's special gift of reducing incongruous details to a common structure and tone is fully illustrated in a poem made

"To suit with time and place,

A Gothic ruin and a Grecian house,
A talk at college and of ladies' rights,
A feudal knight in silken masquerade."

Other works of our great poet are greater, but none is so fascinating. Some of the author's most delicately musical lines are herein contained. The tournament scene is the most vehement and rapid passage in the whole range of Tennyson's poetry. The songs reach the high-water mark of lyrical compositions. The five melodies, "As thro' the Land," "Sweet and Low," The splendor Falls," "Home they Brought" and "Ask me no

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More," constitute the finest group of songs produced in our century, and the third seems to many the most perfect English Lyric since the time of Shakespeare." The name of the Princess is Ida. W. D. A.

IBID. "Maud," a dramatic poem," published in 1855. The section beginning, "O that 'twere Possible," having been published in the Tribute in 1837. W. D. A.

IBID. "The Miller's Daughter," published in 1830. An idyllic ballad including two short songs, "It is the Miller's Daughter," and "Love that Hath us in the Net." W. D. A.

IBID. "Morte d' Arthur," published in 1842, and afterwards incorporated in "The Passing of Arthur," in "The Idylls of the King."

UPHAM. "The Hill Country," was written September, 1889, at the fort of Monadnock.

HOPKINSON. "Hail, Columbia!" was written in 1798, when it was thought America and France were about to declare war. Coming as it did, at a time when the people were at fever-heat over the affairs of the nation, and their desire to maintain their own government, the lack of lyrical merit was not taken into account. It was patriotic, and gave utterance to their feelings. It was set to the music of "The President's March," and for one entire season held the audiences of the theatres in its soul-stirring, captivating thrall.

MONROE. "Columbia," is a portion of the "Ode" written by Miss Harriet Monroe, to be read at the opening exercises of The World's Columbian Exposition. This selection, together with some others from the same ode, were set to music by G. W. Chadwick, of Boston, and was sung at the dedicatory exercises in Chicago, by a chorus of five thousand voices. Miss Monroe was selected by a committee of the World's Fair directors to write an ode, and an award of $1,000 was offered for it. The ode was written and submitted to the committee, who in turn submitted it to three professional literary men, Messrs E. J. Harding, literary editor of the Chicago Tribune; F. F. Brown, of the Dial and William Morton Payne. Some suggestions were offered regarding changes thought best to be made, but Miss Monroe accepted but a few of them.

SMITH. "America." When a student at Andover, Dr. Smith was asked by Dr. Lowell Mason to write some English verses to suit the tunes in a German song-book, and adapted to church and

Sunday-school use. Among that German music was the tune which he did not then know as that of "God Save the Queen."

When he was looking the book through in his room, this tune seized upon his fancy, and within a half-hour he wrote the lines that justly made him famous. He had no idea that he was composing a national anthem to the praise of liberty and freedom and the nation's God, but it was a spark from heaven, which kindled from heart to heart throughout the land. W. S. B. BIGELOW. "Columbia's Poet Laureate." This poem was inspired by a visit to Dr. Samuel F. Smith on the morning after his birthday, which by a strange coincidence, happens on the same day as that on which Columbus discovered America. During this visit an account of this poem was given, and the cause which inspired it.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

N. L. M.

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Miscellaneous Poems.

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FARRAND, MAY SPENCER. Miscellaneous Poems. CRANE, REV. Oliver, D. D. Minto, and Other Poems. New York: Wilbur B. Ketcham, 1888.

12mo, cl., pp. 259.

BUCK, MARY K. Miscellaneous Poems. MCNAMARA, WILLIAM F. Miscellaneous Poems.

VASSER, WILLIAM EDWARD. Flower Myths, and Other Poems. Louisville, Ky.: Author's ed., 1884. 12mo, cl., pp. 90.

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GILBERT. Miscellaneous Poems.

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