BY DELTA. 'Tis midnight deep; the full, round moon, Yes, 't is a season and a scene, With stir and strife, may come between Thou wert a rainbow to my sight, The storms of life before thee fled; That onward cheered, and upward led ; For me, and only me, thy flower Dark though the world for me might shew Its sordid faith, and selfish gloom, Yet, 'mid life's wilderness, to know For me that sweet flower shed its bloom, And art thou dead? I dare not think And broken is the only link That chained youth's pleasant thoughts to me! Alas! that thou couldst know decay That, sighing, I should live to say, "“The cold grave holdeth thee!” For me thou shon'st, as shines a star, On Sorrow's lowering coast. And art thou gone? I deemed thee some Once to have loved, is to have loved Earth in thy sight was Faëry land ;- Farewell!-and must I say, farewell?— A present thought; thy form shall dwell Thy voice shall mingle with my dreams, Never revives the past again; But thou shalt be, in lonely hours, To me earth's heaven,—the azure main,— ON A HEADLAND IN THE BAY OF PANAMA. BY BARRY CORNWALL. We ran up a small creek, near which was a headland, famous for a sangui nary battle, at some very remote period, far beyond the memory of man. We were told of fragments of huge bones that had once whitened all the ground there. We ourselves saw none, however; but turned up various fossils, which, for aught we knew to the contrary, might have belonged to some antediluvian giant or hero, who was cotemporary with the mammoth and leviathan.' VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY, BY JUAN PABLOS GOMEZ. VAGUE mystery hangs on all these desert places! The fear which hath no name, hath wrought a spell! Strength, courage, wrath—have been, and left no traces! They came, and fled;-but whither?-who can tell! We know but that they were,- that once (in days Methinks they should have built some mighty tomb, Whose granite might endure the century's rain, They left, 't is said, their proud unburied bones A mountain stands where Agamemnon died: And thus the dead Metella earned a name. But these, they vanished as the lightnings die (Their mischiefs over) in the surging deep; And no one knoweth underneath the sky, What heroes perished here, nor where they sleep! Literary Souvenir. X BY JANE TAYLOR. A slanting ray of evening light And since those trappings first were new, How many a cloudless day, To rob the velvet of its hue, Has come and passed away! Crumbled beneath the hillock green, And now the worm hath done her part In days of yore (as now we call), All seated round in order due, With 'broidered suit and buckled shoe. On damask cushions decked with fringe, Each holding in a lily hand, Responsive to the priest's command. |