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Sardinian barb which now dragged the last of the Antonij at its heels.

"The shrieks of the victim grew fainter and fainter, the shouts of the trooper fiercer and louder, while the steed, goaded on to fury, continued its headlong speed towards the extremity of the prairie. The fearful design was now fully developed: the crowd shrank back breathless and appalled as the horse cleared the barrierfloundered for an instant in the green swamp, and through the tangling weeds that floated on its treacherous surface, and struggled forward towards the dark lake. The rider, immoveable in his seat, drew the burden closer towards him, fixed the end to the courser's neck, and turning fiercely round to his pursuers, met their threats with a shout of defiance. The floundering animal, that could have stemmed the rapid torrent, or cleared it from bank to bank, now swam for a few seconds, and struggled hard to regain the margin, but was still goaded on towards the centre; for his desperate rider dreamed not of rescue or retreat! Revenge to him was sweeter than life; and when that revenge for which he had so long waited, was accomplished, death in his wildest shape was a feeling of exultation! The horse's strength and courage were now exhausted, and neighing feebly to the wild herd which, with floating mane and inflated nostrils, scampered along the heights in a thousand fantastic attitudes of seeming terror and surprise, the poor animal sank at last into the gulf, dragging down with him his rider and the latter's victim. The agitation of the long reeds on the lake's border, and the rippling circle and bubbling vortex of the water, told how immeasurably deep was the grave that now closed over the guilty chief and Teresa's avenger."

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THE MOURNER.

I.

YE are too bright, ye skies! oh, far too bright
On earth's most melancholy child to shine!
Would that around me fell the sable night,
And ye were dark as is this soul of mine!

II.

Hide thee, thou Sun! oh, hide thy glorious face;
I shrink confused before its kingly blaze—

Too mighty art thou in thy loveliness;

Oh! veil thee, Sun! from my bewilder'd gaze!

III.

Ye are too glad, ye birds! be hush'd your songs!
No answering echo find ye in my heart;

The joyful spirit that to you belongs

With mine, alas! can claim no kindred part.

IV.

Ye are too fair, ye scenes! before my eyes
This summer morn in radiant beauty spread;
Oh Nature! streams, and woods, and hills, and skies,
I cannot feel your charms-the spell is fled!

V.

There was a Sun that o'er the cloudless heaven

Of my young thoughts celestial influence threw ; There was a voice, like seraph's lay at even, That spoke a heart as musical and true;

VI.

There was an eye that when it gazed with me
Gave summer's glory to the wintriest scene;
But oh! since death hath set thee early free,

Nor heaven, nor earth seem as they once have been !

VII.

All things are chang'd! Joy dwells no more with youth;

And Memory mocks me with her blissful dream;

Dark fears arise, hope is no longer truth

Even grief denies to ope her fountain's stream!

VIII.

Now do I own thy power, mysterious soul!
My enemy now, all glorious as thou art;
Where can I flee to shun thy stern controul?

Why do I live?-break-break-poor struggling heart!

LONGSHIPS LIGHTHOUSE, CORNWALL.

SENNEN, in the deanery and in the west division of the hundred of Penwith, is the most westerly parish in England, lying about one mile and a half from the Land's End, and eight miles and a half from Penzance, which is the post-office town. The principal villages in this parish are Mean, Penrose, and Trevear. Mean is the last village towards the Land's End. The large stone, spoken of by Dr. Borlase, called Table-Mean, concerning which there is a tradition that three kings once dined together at it on a journey to the Land's End, is in this village, in which there is a house of entertainment for travellers; on the western side of its sign is inscribed "The first Inn in England," on the eastern side "The last Inn in England."

The Land's End is a bold group of rocks, composed entirely of granite, rising 391 feet above the level of the

Several of these rocks are of grotesque forms; and the road from Penzance to this distinguished promontory is surrounded by Druidical circles, cairns, cromlechs, crosses, military entrenchments, and other memorials of the rudest antiquity. Huge blocks of granite are here scattered in all directions. It is to be regretted that many of these venerable monuments have been much mutilated by the country people. Between the Land's End and Cape Cornwall is Whitsand Bay, famous for being the place where King Stephen landed on his first arrival in England; also King John on his return from

the conquest of Ireland; and Perkin Warbeck the Pretender, in the reign of Henry VII. Near this bay is the site of an ancient castle, called Castle Mean.

The Longships, a small archipelago of rocks, lie about two miles to the westward of the Land's End.

The lighthouse, called the Longships, is situated upon one of these, a remarkable and almost inaccessible rock, which is about 40 feet in height, with barely sufficient surface at the top for the foundation of the lighthouse. The Longships lighthouse is built of granite from the contiguous shore of Cornwall. The building contains apartments for the light keepers, with fuel and the necessary stores for the lighthouse, and is about 30 feet in height. The light is from oil, with reflectors of the best construction, and has four light keepers appointed to it who take the duty two and two, month about.

This lighthouse was, in the first instance, intended to have been erected and placed upon the Wolf Rock, a reef attended with circumstances of much danger to shipping, and for the site of a lighthouse one of the most important stations on the coast of England. With the view of erecting a light on the Wolf Rock, the Trinity Board appear to have granted a lease to, or obtained a licence for, a Lieutenant Smith of the Royal Navy; but either from the difficulty, and extreme danger of the situation, or, what is not improbable, the much greater expense which would have attended an erection upon the Wolf than on the Longships, the lessee proposed, and obtained an alteration in the site from the Wolf to the Longships Rock, which is only about two miles from the shore, instead of about twelve miles, the distance of the Wolf from the Land's End. It was accordingly determined that a lighthouse should be erected upon the

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