Drenched with cold dews; then noon-tide's burning ray Hardship with kindness mixed; but virtue still How oft the end for which we long have striven Their story soon Made eloquent the common mouth; it grew Each morning on the sea-beach pointed out The twins of Beauce: gifts were showered down on them On all sides: even the rugged fisherman With roses, seated in the wooden car; A car of triumph now, with ribbons gay; And Maurice drew her through applauding crowds Unto a festal bower-the simple girl Whose piety and resolution won The suffrage of all hearts, and left to fame THE CHILD AND THE PHILOSOPHER. HE Child looked up beneath the stars, THE And said, "I see the skies Are full of holes-the light shines throughBeyond is Paradise." The grown-up Sage, with optic tube Looked on the glorious Sun, And fixed upon a dusky spot, And said, "Beyond the solar light you, THE BROTHERS' ADVENTURE.* WAS in a tropic ocean-bay TW Two English boys went forth to swim ; And dauntless; now they float as still As sea-birds; now with long-breathed skill Headlong they dive below, and rise With pied shells in their grasp, and many an oozy prize. But I must not fail to tell How a fairy islet lay About three cables' lengths from shore, The jewel of the bay. And thither with swift strokes they race, Holding pleasure still in chase, Through cleft waves that, as on they dash, Close round their shoulders with a rainbow flash. See CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S Novel of Frank Mildmay, Chapter xviii. And landing in a tiny cove, They rove the islet o'er and o'er, And high and low explore And now 'tis time to think of home; Congeals their youthful blood! Above the water peers the fin Of a hungry, roaming shark, That seems the brothers for his prey to mark; Nor is there within hail one friendly bark. Ah, well may they grow pale with dread! The elder boy, with desperate cheer, Makes faltering answer-"Do not fear” |