Oh! may she prize that gem

Bright in her diadem,

Fair on her brow;

So, to the end of days,

May God approve her ways, And heaven resound her praise

As earth does now.

Lord keep her evermore,

Pure in her own heart's core,

Kind and serene;

So shall the wise and good

Reverence her womanhood,

And the glad multitude

Love their young Queen.

May He that dwells on high
All her thoughts sanctify;

Seraphs unseen

Sing up with holy glee,

"Let this maid's name still be

Omen of victory,"

God save the Queen!

"Non bene conveniunt nec unâ in sede morantur
Majestas et amor."-Ov. MET., ii. 846.

A WANTON bard in heathen time,
In sensual age and sensual clime,
Hath sung that no accord can be
Of love with god-like majesty.
Far other had his sentence been
Had gentle Ovid ever seen

An English home, a Christian Queen;
For love, content in cot to dwell,

Becomes a British palace well.

And our young Queen, whose happy choice

Has made a noble land rejoice,

Is sure the monarch need not smother
The feelings of a wife and mother.
A wife and mother truly great,
In woman's duties consummate,
Such is she now. And every wife
And mother wishes joy and life
To the good Queen that dignifies

The mother's cares, the baby's cries.
Now, every mother in the isle,

When she beholds her infant smile,
Should have a good wish and a prayer
For her the matron Queen so fair;
Who, though a Queen, has that in common
With every homely household woman,
That she has got a babe to love,
And knows there is a God above
That will the babes alike receive;
For they have all one mother Eve-
May in one well of life be laved,
And by one Jesus shall be saved.

Oh! may that God prepare their hearts,
Alike to fill their several parts.

Dec., 1840.

THE GUERNSEY LILY.

AMARYLLIS SAMIENSIS.

"This plant was brought from Japan, where it was found by Kaempfer and also by Thunberg, who visited that country in 1775. It was first cultivated in the garden of John Morin, at Paris, where it blowed for the first time on the 7th of October, 1634. It was then made known by Jacob Cornutus, under the name of Narcissus Japonicus flore rutilo.' After this it was again noticed by John Ray, in 1665, who called it the Guernsey Lily. A ship, returning from Japan, was wrecked on the coasts of Guernsey, and a number of the bulbs of this plant, which were on board, being cast on shore, took root in that sandy soil."-Beckman's Inventions, vol. iii.

FAR in the East, and long to us unknown,
A lily bloom'd, of colours quaint and rare;
Not like our lilies, white, and dimly fair,
But clad like Eastern monarch on his throne.
A ship there was by stress of tempest blown,
And wreck'd on beach, all sandy, flat, and bare;—
The storm-god bated of his rage to spare

The queenly flower, foredoom'd to be our own.
The Guernsey fisher, seeking what the sea
Had stolen to aid his hungry poverty,
Starts to behold the stranger from afar,
And wonders what the gorgeous thing might be,
That like an unsphered and dejected star
Gleam'd in forlorn and mateless majesty.

TO A YOUNG LADY FROM A FOREIGN CLIME.

THOU Sweet exotic, lovely brown!

No fair one could be sweeter,—

Young as thou art, thou wilt not frown

Upon an old man's metre.

Rich is the sky where thou wert born,
And gorgeous were the flowers;
But yet I trust thou wilt not scorn
This cold blue sky of ours.

And though the flowers of Westmorland
Do not surcharge the wind
With burden of perfume so bland
As flowers of Western Ind;

Yet are they sweet if they be sought
Where careless eyes would miss them;
They crouch so low, as if they thought

A maid should stoop to kiss them.