Trace the deep lines that Sydenham engraved ; On yon broad front that breasts the changing swell, Mark where the ponderous sledge of Hunter fell; By that square buttress look where Louis stands, On some tall lighthouse dash their little The stone yet warm from his uplifted forms, hands; And the rude granite scatters for their And say, O Science, shall thy life-blood pains freeze, Those small deposits that were meant for When fluttering folly flaps on walls like brains. Yet the proud fabric in the morning's sun Stands all unconscious of the mischief done; Still the red beacon pours its evening rays For the lost pilot with as full a blaze, Nay, shines, all radiance, o'er the scat tered fleet Of gulls and boobies brainless at its feet. I tell their fate, though courtesy disclaims these ? A PORTRAIT. THOUGHTFUL in youth, but not austere in age; Calm, but not cold, and cheerful though a sage; Too true to flatter, and too kind to sneer, And only just when seemingly severe; So gently blending courtesy and art, ------------ A SONG OF OTHER DAYS. Shorter ell than mercers clip Fiercely some shall storm and swear, Fare thee well, if years efface A SONG OF OTHER DAYS. As o'er the glacier's frozen sheet Breathes soft the Alpine rose, So, through life's desert springing sweet, T is nature's law that wine should flow To wet the lips of friends. Then once again, before we part, It means, 47 Be moderate in your meat, If one bright drop is like the gem Of rubies melted down! A fig for Cæsar's blazing brow, But, like the Egyptian queen, Bid each dissolving jewel glow My thirsty lips between. Then once again, etc. The Grecian's mound, the Roman's urn, They circled with the vine, Methinks o'er every sparkling glass From dead Anacreon's strings; Their locks of floating gold, With bacchant dance and choral hymn Return the nymphs of old. Then once again, etc. A welcome then to joy and mirth, And he that has the warmest heart | "T is Wisdom's self the cup that fills Shall loudest laugh and sing. They say we were not born to eat ; But gray-haired sages think In spite of Folly's frown, And Nature, from her vine-clad hills, That rains her life-blood down! A health to sweet woman! The days Around its brim the hand of Nature When she watched for her lord till the A garland sweeter than the banquet's revel was o'er, rose. And smoothed the white pillow, and Bright are the blushes of the vineblushed when he came, wreathed bowl, As she pressed her cold lips on his fore- Warm with the sunshine of Anacreon's head of flame. Alas for the loved one! too spotless and fair The joys of his banquet to chasten and share; Her eye lost its light that his goblet might shine, And the rose of her cheek was dissolved in his wine. Joy smiles in the fountain, health flows Scooped by the Arab in his sunburnt in the rills, hand, As their ribbons of silver unwind from Or the dark streamlet oozing from the They breathe not the mist of the baccha- Where creep and crouch the shuddering nal's dream, Esquimaux; But the lilies of innocence float on their Ay, in the stream that, ere again we |