...prairie miles in extent, flinging around the scene a garment of flame, and then go out in darkness. "Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as ш the light Of a dork eye m woman !" " Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber 1 let...

...heart I could but keep Holy to Heaven, a spot thus pure, and still, and deep I THE SONG OF NIGHT.1 "O night, And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength !" BYRON. I COME to thee, O Earth ! With all my gifts! — for every flower sweet dew In bell, and...

...heart I could but keep Holy to Heaven, a spot thus pure, and still, and deep ! THE SONG OF NIGHT.1 "O night, And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength!" BYRON. I COME to thee, O Earth ! With all my gifts! — for every flower sweet dew In bell, and urn,...

...would disarm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm. "The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are...woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue,...

...and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer! XCII. Thy sky is changed! — and such a consciou 2 3 crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, : lint every mountain now hath found a...

...air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy pray'r ! XCII. The sky is changed ! — and such a l this very ?/nlike Shabspeare ; and to m'ucn the brttr- _-t Oollgny. It lUndi it the top of a rapidly descending Tine, yard ; the wlndnwi commanding, one way,...

...of all Creator and Defence." Why not of Him who, &c. But, " The sky is changed I and such a change I Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous...strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman." Who does not feel the shock of the step or fall from the sublime into the ridiculous in this illustration...

...grandeur that was to follow. But, when I turned to the page whence the line was taken, and read, — ' Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous...strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman,' the whole tone of my feelings seemed lowered, and the same sort of jarring sensation was produced in...

...grandeur that was to follow. But, when I turned to the page whence the line was taken, and read,— And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet...strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman,' ' Oh night, the whole tone of my feelings seemed lowered, and the same sort of jarring sensation was...

...deception—by a single blow that jars all the nerves in our body— "Oh! night, And storm and darkness, yet are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength as is the light Of a dark eye in woman!!!" There are some fine and noble things in these same stanzas, but mixed with baser matter, and that,...