I.

69.

Two Flowers.

1. "Fair-haired, azure-eyed, with delicate Saxon complexion."

2.

"I pray you pardon me,

My sister Queen! nay, you will learn to
love

This high affection for the race of Owen,
Yourself the daughter of his royal house
By better ties than blood."

3. "Lean thy face down; drop it in These two hands, that I may hold 'Twixt their palms thy cheek and chin, Stroking back thy curls of gold."

4. "Death rides upon the sulphury

5.

"The hunter

Provok'd the danger of the Elephant's rage."

6. "His nature is too noble for the world; He would not flatter Neptune for his

7.

trident,

Or Jove for his power to thunder."

"He, that of greatest works is finisher, Oft does them by the weakest minister; So holy writ in babes hath judgment

shown,

When judges have been babes."

8. "The news reach'd

-'s duke, ere earth

Was gladden'd by the lark,

He sent a hundred soldiers forth
To ransack all his park."

9. "The wise

in great majestie

Who mightily that sceptre did sustain."

70.

"Like a mighty steamship foundering,
Down the monstrous vision sank."

"He's a finish'd coon is

And the brandy's nearly done."

I. "The moor around is brown and bare,
The space within is green and fair;
The spot our village children know,
For there the earliest wild-flowers grow."

2. "Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restor'd ; Light dies before thy uncreating word;

Thy hand, great

fall,

! lets the curtain

And universal darkness buries all."

3. "To the glorious, pious, and immortal memory of the good King

who

saved us from Popery, knavery and slavery, brass money and wooden shoes."

4. "Strike as though the echoing

Lay beneath your blows the while;
Be they covenanting traitors,

Or the brood of false Argyle."

5.

"The Boreal Morn

With mimic lustre substitutes its gleam,
Guiding his course by

lake."

6. "There are three difficult things in 'this'; to write anything worth the publishing; to find honest men to publish it; and to get sensible men to read it."

C. G.

66

71.

The Victim and its Murderer.

I. 'With every change his features played, As aspens show the light and shade."

2. "And I would that my tongue could 'express'

The thoughts that arise in me."

4.

lies,

When silent night has closed her eyes;

It is a breezy jasmine bower,

The nightingale sings o'er her head."

Great Alexander to subdue the world,

there, and painted Stoa next.”