SELECTIONS IN POETRY.

"BUT hail, ye mighty masters-of-the-lay-,
Nature's true sons, the friends of man and truth!
Whose song, sublimely sweet. serenely gay,
Amused my childhood and inform'd my youth!
O let your spirit still my bosom soothe.

Inspire my dreams, and my wild wanderings guide!
Your voice each rugged path-of-life can smooth;
For well I know wherever-ye-reside

There harmony, and peace, and innocence abide."

Beattie's Minstrel, xlii,

LANCASTER:

J. AND J. BARWICK, PRINTERS, MARKET STREET.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN MARSHALL, AND Co.

1863.

Permission, to insert, in this Book, the Selections from their Copyrights, has been kindly granted by Alfred Tennyson, Esq., (the Poet Laureate), Martin Farquhar Tupper, Esq., and the other eminent living writers selected from ;-likewise by the respective Publishers of the Works of the late Lord Macaulay, Mrs. Hemans, &c., &c.

ERRATA.

Page 3, line 16, dele "i" in "Leigh."

14, for "Burn's" read "Burns's."
19, for "Wolf” read “Wolfe."

15, for "shall" read "shalt."

2, for "clouded " read "crowded."

8, for "All's for best" read "All's for the best."

23, for "boundles" read "boundless." 7, for "gate" read "grate."

3, for" Shakespeare" read " Addison." 16, for "antitode" read "antidote."