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A TERROR OF THE TWILIGHT.

FAR in Norwegian solitudes we strayed:
Behind us lay a long bright summer day,
But evening now was stooping o'er our way,
When, at a sudden turn, alarmed we stayed.
It was a terror by the twilight made

Of river, cliff, and cloud, and the weird play
Of sunset's one live liberated ray
Piercing the horror of the pine-wood shade.
Stood, like a charred cross, or a huge sword-
hilt,

Against the sky, above the cliff's black line, That seemed a bastion by Harfager built,

A solitary thunder-blasted pine; On the dark flood below, the sunset spilt What now was blood and now was wassail. wine.

IV.

THE CLIMB FROM VALLE.

STEEP was the climb from Valle: far below
The sæter we had left lay lost in mist,
And still the height rose higher than we
wist

Beyond the ravings of the Otteraa.f
And now a thin bleak air began to blow,

And now the bispevei ‡ to turn and twist, Here round a tjern § no summer ever kissed, And there behind a hide of hoarded snow.

The stars dissolved anon; and airy trills

Of wavering music showed the day begun : We toiled to meet the morn-o'er rocks, o'er

rills;

And, breathless but at last, our wish we

won

The top! and, lo, a countless herd of hills Tossing their shining muzzles in the sun!

V.

"PAA HEJA:" Life on the Heights. Is there a pleasure can with this compare? To leap at sunrise from your mountain bed, Roused by a skylark revelling overhead, And drink great draughts of golden morning air;

A plunge, and breakfast - simple rural fare; Then forth with vigorous brain, elastic tread, Hope singing at your heart o'er sorrow dead, And strength for fifty miles, and still to spare! That joy was ours! Omemory! oft restore us

Those autumn runs, here in the smoky town, When through the woods our mad nomadic chorus

Rang freedom up and civilization down! Io! my hearts! the world was all before us, And we nor owned nor envied king nor crown!

VI.

THE MOUNTAIN LAUREATE.
MORNING is flashing from a glorious sun
On the broad shoulders of the giant fells
That outreach arms across the narrow dells
And form a silent brotherhood of one
Listening their skylark laureate! New begun
He up the heavens in ever-rising swells
Carries their thanksgiving in song that wells
From his small breast as if 'twould ne'er be
done.

What life his music gives them! They are free
In the wild freedom of his daring wing;
And in the cataract of his song, the sea

Of poetry that fills all heaven, they sing ;
He is their poet-prophet in his glee,
And in his work and worth their priest and
king!
J. LOGIE ROBERTSON.

Blackwood's Magazine.

Mountain farm.

† Pronounced Ottero. Bridle-path.

§ Mountain lake, tarn.

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