Think'st thou, because the song hath ceas'd,
The soul of song is flown?

Think'st thou it woke to crown the feast,
It lived beside the ruddy hearth alone?

No! by our names and by our blood,
We leave it pure and free—

Though hush'd awhile, that sounding flood Shall roll in joy through ages yet to be.

We leave it, 'midst our country's woe,
The birthright of her breast-

We leave it, as we leave the snow,
Bright and eternal, on Eryri's* crest.

We leave it with our fame to dwell,
Upon our children's breath-

Our voice in theirs through time shall swellThe bard hath gifts of prophecy from death.

He dies-but yet the mountains stand,
Yet sweeps the torrent's tide,

And this is yet Eneurin's † land--

Winds! bear the spoiler one more tone of pride.

*Eryri, the Welsh name for Snowdon.

Encurin, a celebrated ancient British bard.

THE WRECK.

ALL night the booming minute-gun
Had peal'd along the deep,
And mournfully the rising sun
Look'd o'er the tide-worn steep.
A bark from India's coral strand,
Before the raging blast,

Had vail'd her topsails to the sand,

And bow'd her noble mast.

The queenly ship!-brave hearts had striven,

And true ones died with her

We saw her mighty cable riven,

Like floating gossamer.

We saw her proud flag struck that morn,

A star once o'er the seas

Her anchor gone, her deck uptorn,
And sadder things than these.

We saw her treasures cast away-
The rocks with pearls were sown,
And strangely sad, the ruby's ray
Flash'd out o'er fretted stone.

And gold was strewn the wet sands o'er, Like ashes by a breeze

And gorgeous robes-but oh! that shore Had sadder things than these!

We saw the strong man still and low,
A crush'd reed thrown aside-

Yet by that rigid lip and brow,
Not without strife he died.

And near him on the sea-weed lay—
Till then we had not wept,

But well our gushing hearts might say,
That there a mother slept!

For her pale arms a babe had prest,
With such a wreathing grasp,
Billows had dash'd o'er that fond breast,

Yet not undone the clasp.

Her very tresses had been flung

To wrap the fair child's form,

Where still their wet long streamers clung. All tangled by the storm.

And beautiful 'midst that wild scene,

Gleam'd up the boy's dead face,
Like Slumber's trustingly serene,

In melancholy grace.
Deep in her bosom lay his head,
With half-shut violet eye-
He had known little of her dread.
Nought of her agony!

Oh! human Love, whose yearning heart,

Through all things vainly true,

So stamps upon thy mortal part

Its passionate adieu

Surely thou hast another lot,

There is some home for thee,

Where thou shalt rest, remembering not

The moaning of the sea!

A VOYAGER'S DREAM OF LAND.

-His very heart athirst
To gaze at Nature in her green array,
Upon the ship's tall side he stands, possess'd
With visions prompted by intense desire;
Fair helds appear below, such as he left
Far distant, such as he would die to find-
He seeks them headlong, and is seen no more.

COWPER.

THE hollow dash of waves!-the ceaseless roar!
Silence, ye billows-vex my soul no more!

There's a spring in the woods by my sunny home,

Afar from the dark sea's tossing foam;

Oh the fall of that fountain is sweet to hear,
As a song from the shore to the sailor's ear.
And the sparkle which up to the sun it throws,
Through the feathery fern, and the olive boughs,