LUCY. THY favourite bird is soaring still: The pathway flowers that bending meet, you. Since there thy smiles, my charming maid, To beauty be the homage paid; Come, claim the triumph of the Green. A promise too my Lucy made, (And shall my heart its claim resign?) WOODLAND HALLO. IN our cottage, that peeps from the skirts of the wood, I am mistress, no mother have I; Yet blithe are my days, for my father is good, And kind is my lover hard by ; They both work together beneath the green shade, Both woodmen, my father and Joe; Where I've listen'd whole hours to the echo that made So much of a laugh or-Hallo. From my basket at noon they expect their supply, And with joy from my threshold I spring; For the woodlands I love, and the oaks waving high, And echo that sings as I sing. Though deep shades delight me, yet love is my food, As I call the dear name of my Joe; His musical shout is the pride of the wood, And my heart leaps to hear the-Hallo. Simple flowers of the grove, little birds live at ease, I'll still dwell beneath the deep roar of your trees, But resting through life on the bosom of love, LOVE OF THE COUNTRY. WELCOME silence! welcome peace! My heart and soul for quiet made. Thus I fix my firm belief While rapture's gushing tears descend, Is moral Truth's unerring friend. I would not for a world of gold That Nature's lovely face should tire; Pure source of intellectual fire! Fancy's fair buds, the germs of song, Unquicken'd midst the world's rude strife, Shall sweet retirement render strong, And morning silence bring to life. Then tell me not that I shall grow I grant that summer heats will burn, Build me a shrine, and I could kneel That one GREAT SPIRIT governs all. Where o'er my corse green branches wave; And those who from life's tumult fly With kindred feelings press my grave. 7. CUPIDS MOURNING OVER A BROKEN LUTE ENGRAVERS. F. W. Topham. W. Chevalier. W. Finden. E. Finden. L. Stocks. C. Rolls. . C. Marr. J. Thomson. W. Miller. L. Stocks. W. Greatbach. W. H. Simmons. 17. THE JOY OF CHILDHOOD. H. P. Briggs, R.A. . . T. Wrankmore. Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. J. Boaden J. Stark E. H. Baily, R.A. S. Prout. R. Hatfield. W. J. Cooke. J. Thomson. W. Miller. |