LE MATIN.

LE voile du matin sur les monts se déploie. Vois, un rayon naissant blanchit la vieille tour, Et déjà dans les cieux s'unit avec amour,

Ainsi que la gloire à la joie,

Le premier chant des bois aux premiers feux du jour.

Oui, souris à l'éclat dont le ciel se décore!

Tu verras, si demain le cerceuil me dévore,
Luire à tes yeux en pleurs un soleil aussi beau,
Et les mêmes oiseaux chanter la même aurore,
Sur mon noir et muët tombeau !

Mais dans l'autre horison l'âme alors est ravie,
L'avenir sans fin s'ouvre à l'être illimité;

Au matin de l'éternité

On se réveille de la vie,

Comme d'une nuit sombre ou d'un rêve agité.

VICTOR HUGO.

The happy, careless creatures! of time they take no

heed;

Nor weary of his creeping, nor tremble at his speed; Nor sigh with sick impatience, and wish the light away; Nor when 'tis gone cry dolefully, "would God that it were day!"

And when their lives are over, they drop away to rest, Unconscious of the penal doom, on holy Nature's breast; No pain have they in dying, no shrinking from decay : Oh! could we but return to earth as easily as they!

CAROLINE BOWLES.

THE END.

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FLORA AND THALIA.

185

ON PLANTING A TULIP-ROOT.

HERE lies a bulb, the child of earth,
Buried alive beneath the clod,
Ere long to spring, by second birth,
A new and nobler work of God.

'Tis said that microscopic power

Might, through his swaddling folds, descry

The infant image of the flower,

Too exquisite to meet the eye.

This, vernal suns and rains will swell,
Till from its dark abode it peep,
Like Venus rising from her shell,
Amidst the spring-tide of the deep.

Two shapely leaves will first unfold;
Then, on a smooth elastic stem,
The verdant bud shall turn to gold,
And open in a diadem.

Not one of Flora's brilliant race,

A form more perfect can display; Art could not feign more simple grace, Nor Nature take a line away.

R 3

Yet, rich as morn, of many a hue,

When flushing clouds through darkness strike, The Tulip's petals shine in dew,

All beautiful, but none alike.

Kings, on their bridal, might unrobe,
To lay their glories at its foot;

And queens their sceptre, crown, and globe,
Exchange for blossom, stalk, and root.

Here could I stand and moralise;
Lady, I leave that part to thee;
Be thy next birth in Paradise,
Thy life to come-eternity.

WEAVE a wreath of varied hues,

Here are garlands twining,

For the gay, the brightest choose,

And drooping for the pining.

"LONDON PRIDE," for West-end beaux

Or belles, as fancy ranges;

"HEART'S EASE" too, in plenty grows,
To meet Dame Fortune's changes.

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