WOULDST thou from sorrow find a sweet relief? Its life and beauty; not when, all unrolled, Breathes freely its perfumes throughout the ambient air. Rouse to some work of high and holy love, And thou an angel's happiness shalt know; Shalt bless the earth while in the world above: The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow; The seed, that, in these few and fleeting hours, Thy hands, unsparing and unwearied, sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits divine in heaven's immortal bowers. WILCOX. THEN the deliverance comes! the crimson scroll, Speed on your swiftest wheels, ye golden spheres, To bring the splendors of that morning nigh. Already the forgiven desert bears The rose; the pagan lifts the adoring eye; Ancient of Days! that, high above all height, The hour shall come when all shall know thy might, Blest be the eye which lives that day to see! The grave may wrap me ere its glorious sun; Even, Father, as Thou wilt; but Thou art He That sees the sparrow perish from thy throne. Father, in life or death, thy sovereign will be done. CRABBE. The Stars. YE stars, bright legions, that, before all time, Who bade through heaven your golden chariots wheel? Yet who, earthborn, can see your hosts, nor feel Immortal impulses. Eternity! What wonder if the o'erwrought soul shall reel With its own weight of thought, and the wild eye See fate within your tracks of sleepless glory lie? For ye behold the MIGHTIEST. From that steep, The wanderers of the deluge saw it spring CROLY. O, LISTEN, man! A voice within us speaks that startling word, Of morning sung together, sound forth still Thick-clustering orbs, and this our fair domain, DANA. Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath! In the gay woods and in the golden air,- In such a bright, late quiet, would that I Might wear out life, like thee, 'mid bowers and brooks, And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks, And music of kind voices ever nigh; And, when my last sand twinkled in the glass, BRYANT. CR Him, |