Imagination's world of air, And our own world, its gloom and glee, * Praise to the bard!-His words are driven, Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown, Praise to the man!-A nation stood And still, as on his funeral day, Men stand his cold earth-couch around, With the mute homage that we pay And consecrated ground it is, The last, the hallowed home of one Who lives upon all memories, Though with the buried gone. Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Sages, with Wisdom's garland wreathed, Crowned kings, and mitred priests of power, And warriors, with their bright swords sheathed, The mightiest of the hour; And lowlier names, whose humble home Are there-o'er wave and mountain come, Pilgrims, whose wandering feet have pressed The Switzer's snow, the Arab's sand, Or trod the piled leaves of the West, All ask the cottage of his birth, Gaze on the scenes he loved and sung, They linger by the Doon's low trees, But what to them the sculptor's art, His funeral columns, wreaths, and urns? Mary Magdalen.-BRYANT. From the Spanish of Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola. Thou weepest days of innocence departed; The greatest of thy follies is forgiven, On that pale cheek of thine. Thou didst kneel down to him who came from heaven, Evil and ignorant, and thou shalt rise Holy, and pure, and wise. It is not much, that to the fragrant blossom Nor that, upon the wintry desert's bosom, But come and see the bleak and barren mountains The perished plant, set out by living fountains, Grows fruitful, and its beauteous branches rise, For ever, towards the skies. Be humble.-JONES. TRIUMPH not, frail man; thou art Thou seem'st most proud of thine offence; Triumph not, though nothing warns Of vigor waning fast; A pleasant morn, a sultry noon, Triumph not, though fortune sends If then thou countest many friends, But triumph not: that gold may go; And friends will fly in hour of wo. And thou may'st love a smooth, soft cheek, And woo a tender eye: But triumph not: a single week, And cold those lips may lie, Or, worse, that trusted heart may rove, But triumph, if thy soul feels firm Sabbath Evening Twilight.-ANONYMOUS. DELIGHTFUL hour of sweet repose, Of hallowed thoughts, of love, of prayer! That burned before the temple shrine, The hopes, the fears, that moved the breast,All live again in light like thine. I love thee for the fervid glow Thou shed'st around the closing day,Those golden fires, those wreaths of snow, That light and pave his glorious way! Through them, I've sometimes thought, the eye And track the course where spirits fly, I love thee for the unbroken calm, That slumbers on this fading scene, I love those joyous memories, That rush, with thee, upon the soul,- That o'er the spell-bound spirit roll. Yet holier is thy peaceful close, For vows love left recorded there ;This is the noiseless hour we chose To consecrate to mutual prayer. 'Twas when misfortune's fearful cloud Was gathering o'er the brow of heaven, Ere yet despair's eternal shroud When these deep purpling shades came down, We swore, that, whether fate should crown O, tell me if this hallowed hour Still finds thee constant at our shrine, Still witnesses thy fervent prayer Ascending warm and true with mine! Faithful through every change of wo, My heart still flies to meet thee there: "Twould soothe this weary heart to know That thine responded every prayer. The Burial of Arnold.*—N. P. WILLIS. J YE'VE gathered to your place of prayer Your ranks are full, your mates all there- He was the proudest in his strength, Why lies he at that fearful length, And ye around his pall? Ye reckon it in days, since he Strode up that foot-worn aisle, * A member of the senior class in Yale College. |