And still forgotten while they go, As on the sea-beach wave on wave Dissolves at once in snow. Upon the blue and silent sky The amber clouds one moment lie, And like a dream are gone! Though beautiful the moon-beams play On the lake's bosom bright as they, And the soul intensely loves their stay, Soon as the radiance melts away We scarce believe it shone ! Heaven-airs amid the harp-strings dwell, And we wish they ne'er may fadeThey cease ! and the soul is a silent cell, Where music never played. Dream follows dream through the long night-hours, Each lovelier than the lastBut ere the breath of morning-flowers, That gorgeous world flies past. And many a sweet angelic cheek, Whose smiles of love and kindness speak, Glides by us on this earthWhile in a day we cannot tell Where shone the face we loved so well, In sadness or in mirth.

Professor Wilson.

INSCRIPTION

FOR AN ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND AT LIVERPOOL.

Stranger, pause—for thee the day,
Smiling, lights its cheerful ray;
Spreads the lawn, and rears the bower,
Pours the stream, and paints the flower.

Stranger, pause-with softened mind,
Learn the sorrows of the blind
Earth, and seas, and varying skies,
Visit not their cheerless eyes.

Not for them the bliss to trace,
The chisels animating grace ;
Nor on the glowing canvas find,
The poet's soul, the sage's mind.

Not for them, the heart is seen,
Speaking thro' the expressive mien;
Not for them, are pictured there,
Friendship, pity, love sincere.

Helpless, as they slowly stray,
Childhood points their cheerless way;
Or the wand exploring guides
Faultering steps where fear presides.

Yet for them has genius kind,
Humble pleasures here assigned ;-
Here, with unexpected ray,
Reached the soul that felt no day.

Lonely blindness here can meet,
Kindred woes and converse sweet ;
Torpid once, can learn to smile,
Proudly o'er its useful toil-

He, who deigned for men to die,
Oped on day the darkened eye ;-
Humbly copy—thou canst feel !
Give thine alms—thou canst not heal !

Anon.

REFLECTIONS ON THE FOURTH OF JUNE.

Ah day revered for sixty years !
Once day of joy, but now of tears

No cannons peall no bells are rung!
No loyal hymn by thousands sung,

From Thames to Ganges' shore !
'Tis past, and, like forgotten things,
The birth-day of the best of Kings,

We celebrate no more !

Yet history's page shall mark the morn,
When England's George the Third was born;

And faithful to her sacred trust,

Shall call that monarch good and just, No frail memorial this of flattering art ;--, Time cannot raze the records of the heart!

Anon.

THE SPIRIT OF NATURE.

I spring from the gold mottled east
In the face of the new-risen sun,
And I shine in the blaze of the west
When the race of his glory is run ;
I sail in the breeze from the sea,
And I breathe in the ocean-weed smell

As the fresh wind from prison set free
Sweeps in joy o'er each mountain and dell.

When on the young wings of the morn
The lav'rock ascends from her nest,
My voice fills her orisons, borne
Far away on the firmament's breast;
The poet who loves the lone stream,
With face so impassioned and pale,
Hears faint as the voice of a dream
My sounds in the zephyrim gale.

I am found in the night's starry crown,
Where the angels and seraphims stray,
In the sky-stain, where spirits look down
Thro' the mists of the pale milky way;
And when midnight's sweet drowsiness breathes
O’er the leaves of a love-sickened flower,
I sleep in the cup that it wreathes,
And sip the bright dew in my bower.

W.D.