The chord, the harp's full chord is hushed,
The voice hath died away,

Whence music, like sweet waters, gushed

But yesterday.

And all the memories, all the dreams.

They woke in floating by,

The tender thoughts, th' Elysian gleams-
Could these too die?

Whence were they?—like the breath of flowers,
Why thus to come and go?

A long, long journey must be ours,

Ere this we know!

HEMANS.

A sound of music, such as they might deem
The song of spirits-that would sometimes sail
Close to their ear, a deep, delicious stream,
Then sweep away and die with a low wail;
Then come again.

I've heard thee wake with touch refined,
The viewless harp strings of the wind,
When on my ears their soft tones fell,
Sweet as the voice of Israfel.

CROLY.

HENRY NEELE.

Hast heard in dreams the wind harp's tone?

Then in thy soul rejoice;

No one is friendless and alone,

Who hears its spirit-voice.

ANONYMOUS.

Anchor.

According to VON GERSTENBERGK, who has culled his "Dream Lexicon" from the writings of APOMAZOR, ARTEMIDORUS, CARDANUS, and JOHN ENGELBRECHT;-to dream of an anchor denotes security. Others declare it to presage the fulfilment of long-deferred hopes, while a third authority asserts that it implies hindrance and delay.

AT first all deadly shapes were driven
Tumultuously across her sleep,

And o'er the vast cope of bending Heaven
All ghastly visaged clouds did sweep;
And as towards the east she turned

She saw aloft in the morning air,
Which now with hues of sunrise burned,
A great black anchor rising there;
And wherever the lady turned her eyes
It hung before her in the skies.

The sky was blue as the summer sea,
The depths were cloudless over head,

The air was calm as it could be,

There was no sight nor sound of dread,
But that black anchor floating still

Over the piny eastern hill.

MARIANNE'S DREAM. SHELLEY.

Angels.

To dream of angels presages joy and prosperity with the fulfilment of our dearest hope.

ACHMET SEIRIM, c. 10.

PERCHANCE she knows it by her dreams,
Her eye hath caught the golden gleams
(Angelic presence testifying),
That round her everywhere are flying;
Ostents from which she may presume
That much of Heaven is in the room.
Skirting her own bright hair they run,
And to the sunny add more sun.

CHARLES LAMB.

But may ye not unseen, around us hover, With gentle promptings and sweet influence yet; Though the fresh glory of those days be over, When midst the palm-trees, man your footsteps met? Are ye not near when faith and hope rise high, When love by strength o'ermasters agony?

It is a beautiful, a blest belief

HEMANS.

That the beloved dead, grown angels, watch
The dear ones left behind.

L. E. L.

Light as the angel shapes that bless
An infant's dream, yet not the less
Rich in all woman's loveliness.

MOORE.

Antiquities Curiofities.

To dream of antique, rare, and costly objects, presages some happy event—the arrival of a dear friend, or a fortunate and unexpected discovery.

NICHOLAUS VON KLINGELBERG.

CASES of rare medallions, coins antique
Found in the dust of cities, Roman, Greek;
And urns of alabaster, soft and bright,

With fauns and dancing shepherds on their sides;
And costly marble vases dug from night

In Pompeii, beneath its lava-tides:

Clusters of arms, the spoil of ancient wars,

Old scymitars of true Damascus brand,

Short swords with basket-hilts to guard the hand,
And iron casques with rusty visor-bars:
Lances and spears, and battle-axes keen,

With crescent edges, shields with studded thorns,
Yew-bows, and shafts, and curved bugle-horns,
With tassled baldrics of the Lincoln green:
And on the walls with lifted curtains, see!
The portraits of my noble ancestry;

Thin-featured, stately dames with powdered locks,
And courtly shepherdesses tending flocks,

Stiff lords in wigs, and ruffles white as snow,
Haught peers and princes centuries ago,
And dark Sir Hugh, the bravest of the line,
With all the knightly scars he won in Palestine.

STODDARD.

If in his study he hath such a care
To hang old strange things, let his wife beware.

--the pictures and the blazoned books, The glittering armour and the oaken screen, Grotesque with wry-faced purgatorial shapes.

DONNE.

ВОКЕВ.

Animals.

To dream of many kinds of animals herding or thronging together, denotes some strange and direful adventure.

WHILE he thus spake, there came into my mind.
This fearefull dreame, whereout I waked was:
I saw a river stopt with stormes of winde,
Wherethrough a Swan, a Bull, a Bore did passe,
Tranching the fish and fire with teeth of brasse,
Methought this streame did drowne the cruell Bore,
In little space it grew so deepe and brode:
But he had killed the Bull and Swan before.
Besides all this I saw an uglie Tode

Crale towards me, on which methought I trode:
But what became of her, or what of me,
My sudden waking would not let me see.

THE MIRROUR FOR MAGISTRATES.