THE LULLABY.

I SAW two children hush'd to death,
In lap of One with silver wings,
Hearkening a lute, whose latest breath
Low linger'd on the trembling strings.

Her face is very pale and fair,
Her hooded eyelids darkly shed
Celestial love, and all her hair

Is like a crown around her head.

Each ripple sinking in its place,

Along the lute's faint-ebbing strain, Seems echoed slowlier from her face, And echoed back from theirs again.

Yes, now is silence. Do not weep.

Her eyes are fixed; observe them long; And spell, if thou canst pierce so deep, The purpose of a nobler song.

W. ALLINGHAM.

A DIRG E.

CALM on the bosom of thy God,

Young spirit! rest thee now !

Even while with us thy footstep trod,
His seal was on thy brow.

T

Dust, to its narrow house beneath!

Soul, to its place on high !

They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.

Lone are the paths, and sad the bowers,
Whence thy meek smile is gone;
But oh a brighter home than ours,
In Heaven, is now thine own.

FELICIA HEMANS.

DEATH CONQUERED.

SHALL I fear, O Earth, thy bosom?
Shrink and faint to lay me there,
Whence the fragrant, lovely blossom
Springs to gladden earth and air?

Whence the tree, the brook, the river,
Soft clouds floating in the sky,
All fair things come, whispering ever
Of the love divine on high?

Yea, whence One arose victorious
O'er the darkness of the grave;
His strong arm revealing, glorious
In its might divine to save?

No, fair Earth! a tender mother

Thou hast been, and yet canst be:
And through Him, my Lord and Brother,
Sweet shall be my rest in thee!

THOMAS DAVIS.

OUR HOLY DEAD.

THOU God of love, beneath Thy sheltering wings
We leave our holy dead

To rest in hope. From this world's sufferings
Their souls have fled.

Oh, when our souls are burdened with the weight
Of life and all its woes,

Let us remember them, and calmly wait,

For our life's close.

From "THE DOVE ON THE CROSS."

ERRATA.

Page 17, line 14-for has read hath.
Page 35, line 2-for and read with.
Page 35, line 17-erase the second comma.

Page 62, line 19-for love read lone.

Page 127, line 16--for Spirit read Spirit of.

Page 136, line 9-for drear read dear.

Page 153, line 13—for warm read warn.

Page 171, line 5-for second comma put full stop. Page 213, line 15-for breas read breast.

Page 226, line 3-for their read your.

NOTES.

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6. EACH AND ALL.-A few lines omitted.

10. EVENTIDE.-The second part of the poem with this title. 45. No. XX. of the series of sonnets entitled In the Shadows. 60. LOOKING UNTO JESUS.-Two additional stanzas are some

times given.

61. WITH HIS STRIPES, &C.-From Hymns for the Christian Church and Home. Edited by the Rev. James Martineau.

63. SONNET.-From Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces. By Charles Tennyson. Cambridge, 1830.

67. DOMINE, QUO VADIS?-The legend is given in Mrs Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art, p. 180.

100. THE RIGHT MUST WIN.-Nine stanzas omitted.

119. ISOLATION.—Afterthought to An Afternoon at the Par

sonage.

127. No. XXX. of the sonnets In the Shadows.

131. BLEST BE THY LOVE.-As in The Book of Praise.

133. SEEKING GOD.-As in The Book of Praise, with the omission of the Doxology.

135. DRYNESS IN PRAYER.-One stanza omitted.

143. RODS AND KISSES.-A Prelude from The Angel in the

House.