Yet still adown the gloomy stream
She plied her weary oar;

Her husband-he had left their home,

And it was home no more.

She found him-but she found in vain-
He spurned her from his side;
He said, her brow was all too dark,

For her to be his bride.

She grasped his hands, her own were cold,—

And silent turned away,

As she had not a tear to shed,

And not a word to say.

And pale as death she reached her boat,

And guided it along;

With broken voice she strove to raise

A melancholy song.

None watched the lonely Indian girl,

She passed unmarked of all,

Until they saw her slight canoe
Approach the mighty Fall!

Upright, within that slender boat

They saw the pale girl stand,
Her dark hair streaming far behind-
Upraised her desperate hand.

The air is filled with shriek and shout

They call, but call in vain;

The boat amid the waters dashed

'Twas never seen again!

THE SNOWDROP.

THOU beautiful new comer,
With white and maiden brow;
Thou fairy gift from summer,
Why art thou blooming now?
This dim and sheltered alley

Is dark with winter green;
Not such as in the valley

At sweet spring-time is seen.

The lime-tree's tender yellow,
The aspen's silvery sheen,
With mingling colors mellow
The universal green.

Now solemn yews are bending

'Mid gloomy fires around;

And in long dark wreaths descending

The ivy sweeps the ground.

No sweet companion pledges

Thy health as dewdrops pass;

No rose is on the hedges,

No violet in the grass.

Thou art watching, and thou only,
Above the earth's snow tomb;

Thus lovely, and thus lonely,
I bless thee for thy bloom.

Though the singing rill be frozen,

While the wind forsakes the west;

Though the singing birds have chosen

Some lone and silent rest;

Like thee, one sweet thought lingers
In a heart else cold and dead,
Though the summer's flowers, and singers,
And sunshine long hath fled:

"Tis the love for long years cherished, Yet lingering, lorn, and lone; Though its lovelier lights have perished,

And its earlier hopes are flown.
Though a weary world hath bound it,
With many a heavy thrall;

And the cold and changed surround it,
It blossometh o'er all.

KALENDRIA;

A PORT IN CILICIA.

Do you see yon vessel riding,
Anchored in our island bay,
Like a sleeping sea-bird biding

For the morrow's onward way?
See her white wings folded round her,
As she rocks upon the deep;
Slumber with a spell hath bound her,

With a spell of peace and sleep.

Seems she not as if enchanted
To that lone and lovely place,
Henceforth ever to be haunted

By that sweet ship's shadowy grace?
Yet, come here again to-morrow,

Not a vestige will remain,

Though those sweet eyes strain in sorrow, They will search the sea in vain.

"Twas for this I bade thee meet me,
For a parting word and tear;
Other lands and lips may greet me ;
None will ever seem so dear.
Other lands-I may say, other—
Mine again I shall not see;
I have left mine aged mother,
She has other sons than me.

Where my father's bones are lying,
There mine own will never lie;
Where the myrtle groves are sighing,
Soft beneath our summer sky.

Mine will be a wilder ending,

Mine will be a wilder grave,

Where the shriek and shout are blending, Or the tempest sweeps the wave.

Mine may be a fate more lonely,
In some sick and foreign ward,
Where my weary eyes meet only
Hired nurse or sullen guard.
Dearest maiden, thou art weeping;

Must I from those eyes remove

Hath thy heart no soft pulse sleeping
Which might ripen into love?

No! I see thy brow is frozen,

And thy look is cold and strange;
Ah! when once the heart has chosen,
Well I know it cannot change.
And I know that heart has spoken,
That another's it must be.

Scarce I wish that pure faith broken,
Though the falsehood were for me.

No: be still the guileless creature
That upon my boyhood shone ;
Couldst thou change thy angel nature,
Half my faith in heaven were gone.
Still thy memory shall be cherished,
Dear as it is now to me;

When all gentler thoughts have perished,
One shall linger yet for thee.

Farewell!-With those words I sever

Every tie of youth and home;
Thou, fair isle! adieu for ever!
See a boat cuts through the foam.
Wind, time, tide, alike are pressing,
I must hasten from the shore.
One first kiss, and one last blessing-
Farewell, love! we meet no more.

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