Pollok, Morris, Rogers, Boies, Campbell, Osgood, Hood, Maclean, Eastman, Elliott, Blanchard, Moir, Spencer, Wordsworth, Shelley. Keats, Whittier, Keble, Burbidge, Eliza Cook, Milman, Swain, Mrs. Norton. Hervey, Tuckerman, Bowles. Praed, Linen, Motherwell, Mrs. Prowning, Barbauld, Lover, Peabody, Sterling. Jones, Wilson, Mackay, Vedder, Cooke, Willis, Clarke, Smith. The solitude of vast extent, untouched By hand of art, where Nature sowed herself, And reaped her crops; whose garments were the clouds; Whose minstrels, brooks; whose lamps, the moon and stars; Whose organ-choir, the voice of many waters; Whose banquets, morning dews; whose heroes, storms; The lovely bard enjoyed, when forth he walked— And sought-sought neither heaven nor earth-sought naught; Of visionary things; fairer than aught That was; and saw the distant tops of thoughts, Which men of common stature never saw, Greater than aught that largest worlds could hold, This bold and beautiful conception of Nature, and her influences upon a heart and intellect attuned to her ministries, is from POLLOK's Course of Time. The author, like Kirke White, became an early victim of his devotion to the Muse; for the same year that he gave his epic to the world, he had himself to bid adieu to it. MORRIS'S song, Woodman, spare that Tree! has not only taken its place among our household lyrics, but is not unknown abroad. It owes its existence to the following incident :-The author, some years since, was riding out with a friend in the suburbs of New |