THE FAIRIES' SONG.

TRIO.

Within this shelter'd mossy dell, From mortal ken, we fairies dwell, When the garish eye of day

Beams abroad its golden ray.

Light dancing on the daisied ground, Our wanton rings we trace around, When the moon, with play light, Gems the modest brow of night. Around the mushroom's tawny breast, 'Tis there we hold our elfin feast; Honey'd stores of saffron hue,

Acorn cups of nectar dew.

O sweetly thus our moments fly,
Till soon the rosy dew we spy;
Then to taste the balmy sleep
In purple bells we softly creep.

GILES SCROGGINS.

Giles Scroggins courted Molly Brown,
Fol deriddle lol, fol deriddle hido;
The fairest wench in all the town,
Fol deriddle lol, &c.

He bought a ring with posie true,
If you loves as I loves you,
No knife can cut our love in two,
Fol deriddle lol, &c,

But scissors cut as well as knives,
Fol deriddle lol, &c.

And quite unsartin's all our lives,
Fol deriddle lol, &c.

The day they were to have been wed,
Fate's scizzors cut poor Giles's thread,
So they could not be mar-ri-ed,
Fol deriddle lol, &c.

Poor Molly laid her down to weep,
Fol deriddle lol, &c.

And cried hersel quite fast asleep,
Fol deriddle lol, &c.

When, standing all by the bed post,
A figure tall her sight engross'd,
And it cried, I beez Giles Scroggin's ghost!
Fol deriddle lol, &c.

The ghost it said all solemnly,

Fol deriddle lol, &c.

O Molly, you must go with I!
Fol deriddle lol, &c.

All to the grave, your love to cool

She says, I am not dead, you fool!

Says the Ghost, says he, Vy that's no rule ;—

Fol deriddle lol, &c.

The Ghost be seiz'd her all so grim,

Fol deriddle lol, &c.

All for to go along with him,

Fol deriddle lol, &c.

Come, come, said he, ere morning beam,-
I vont! said she, and she scream'd a scream-
Then she awoke and found she dream't a dream,
Fol deriddle lol, &c.

A TRAVELLER STOPPED AT A WIDOW'S
GATE.

A Traveller stopped at a widow's gate;
She kept an inn, and he wanted to bait,

But the landlady slighted her guest;
For, when Nature was making an ugly race,
She certainly moulded this traveller's face,
As a sample for all the rest.

The chambermaid's sides they were ready to crack, When she saw his queer nose, and hump on his

back!

(A hump isn't handsome, no doubt :)
And, though 'tis confess d that the prejudice goes
Very strangly in favour of wearing a nose,
A nose shouldn't look like a snout.

A bag full of gold on the table he laid,
It had a wond'rous effect on the widow and maid,
And they quickly grew marvellous civil;
The money immediately altered the case,
They were charm'd with his hump, and his snout,
and his face,

Though he still might have frightened the

devil.

He paid like a prince, gave the widow a smack, And flopp'd on his horse, at the door, like a sack; While the landlady touching the chink, Cried, "Sir, should you travel this country again, I heartily hope that the sweetest of men

Will stop at the widow's to drink."

THE STAR OF LOVE.

Along the mountains of the west,
The woods in misty twilight wave;
The eagle broods upon her nest,

The hermit sits within his cave.

*

The May moth in the wild flower sleeps
And sylvan urchins silent lie;
The fallow deer its covert keeps,

And drowsy shepherds homeward hie.
No murmur from the thicket breaks,
The night enamoured bird is mute:
While Love (a sweeter bird) awakes,
And warbles from my lady's lute.

Appear! star after st

star appears—
The brighter star that eye can see,
When joy hath filled that eye with tears,
Was never half so bright as thee.

THE SENTINEL.) ·

In the night, when the watch light beside him was burning,

The sentinel stood on the field of the dead, Yet then hope, on the wing of the midnight returning,

Came clad in the smiles of the days that were

fled,

And though a soldier's mind might roam

Back to the vanished battle day,

He thought of his love, and he thought of his home For the fields where he fought were afar and away.

Then, turning again from the strife and the slaughter,

We swept the blue waves of a far distant sea, Yet he sighed as he bent o'er the dark ocean wa ter,

For the wild wave that bore him still bore him from thee;

Then, as we cleft the green sea foam,

Or flew before the silvery spray,

He thought of his love, and he thought of his home,

While his vessel was bounding afar and away.

MEET ME BY MOONLIGHT.

Meet me by moonlight alone,

And then I will tell you a tale, Must be told by the moonlight alone, In the grove at the end of the vale; You must promise to come, for I said, I would show the night flowers their queen;. Nay turn not away thy sweet head, 'Tis the loveliest ever was seen.

Oh, meet me by moonlight alone.

Daylight may do for the gay,

The thoughtless, the heartless, the free;
But there's something about the moon's rays
That is sweeter to you and to me.
Oh, remember be sure to be there,
For tho' dearly a moonlight I prize,
I care not for all in the air,

If I want the sweet light of your eyes.
So meet me by moonlight alone.