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Some one seemed to go in quest of her. Perhaps it was Susan. Paul thought he heard her telling him, when he had closed his eyes again, that she would soon be back; but he did not open them to see. She kept her word-perhaps she had never been away— but the next thing that hpppened was a noise of footsteps on the stairs, and then Paul woke-woke mind and body-and sat upright in his bed. He saw them now about him. There was no gray mist before them, as there had been sometimes in the night. He knew them every one, and called them by their names.

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And who is this? Is this my old nurse? said the child, regarding, with a radiant smile, a figure comng in.

Yes, yes. No other stranger would have shed those tears at the sight of him, and called him her dear boy, her pretty boy, her own poor blighted child. No other woman would have stooped down by his bed, and taken up his wasted hand, and put it to her lips and breast, as one who had some right to fondle it. No other would have so forgotten everybody there but him and Floy, and been so full of tenderness and pity.

"Floy! this is a kind good face!" said Paul. "I am glad to see it again. Don't go away, old nurse! Stay here!"

His senses were all quickened, and he heard a name he knew.

"Who was that? who said Walter ?" he asked, looking round. "Some one said Walter. Is he here? I should like to see him very much."

Nobody replied directly, but his father said to Susan, "Call him back, then : let him come up!" After a short pause of expectation, during which he looked with smiling interest and wonder on his nurse, and saw that she had not forgotten Floy, Walter was brought into the room. His open face and manner, and his cheerful eyes, had always made him a favorite with Paul; and when Paul saw him, he stretched out his hand, and said, "Good-by!"

with which he had so often gazed upon her in his cor ner by the fire. "Ah, yes," he said, placidly, "goodby! Walter dear, good-by!" turning his head to where he stood, and putting out his hand again. "Where is papa?"

He felt his father's breath upon his cheek, before the words had parted from his lips.

"Remember Walter, dear papa," he whispered, looking in his face,- "remember Walter. I was fond of Walter!" The feeble hand waved in the air, as if it cried "good-by!" to Walter once again.

"Now lay me down again," he said; "and Floy, come close to me, and let me see you!"

Sister and brother wound their arms around each other, and the golden light came streaming in, and fell upon them, locked together.

"How fast the river runs between its green banks and rushes, Floy! But its very near the sea. I hear the waves. They always said so!"

Presently he told her that the motion of the boat upon the stream was lulling him to rest. How green the banks were now, how bright the flowers growing on them, and how tall the rushes! Now the boat was out at sea, but gliding smoothly on. And now there was a shore before him. Who stood on the bank!

He put his hands together, as he had been used to do at his prayers. He did not remove his arms to do it, but they saw him fold them so behind her neck.

"Mamma is like you, Floy. I know her by the face? But tell them that the print upon the stairs at school is not divine enough. The light about the head is shining on me as I go!"

The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion-Death!

O, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion "Good-by, my child!" cried Mrs. Pipchin, hurry- yet, of immortality! And look upon us, angels of ng to his bed's head. "Not good-by?" young children, with regards not quite estranged, For an instant, Paul looked at her with the wistful face when the swift river bears us to the ocean!

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PERSONS AND PLACES

TO THOMAS MOORE.

Y boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on

the sea;

But before I go, Tom

Moore,

Here's a double

love me,

health to thee?

But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead
And we bitterly thought of the morrow

We thought, as we hollowed his narrow ed
And smoothed down his lonely pillow,

That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his
head,

And we far away on the billow!

Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone,
And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him-

Here's a sigh to those who But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on
In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
But half our heavy task was done,

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And a smile to those who
hate;

And, whatever skies above

me,

Here's a heart for any
fate.

When the clock struck the hour for retiring;
And we heard the distant and random gun
That the foe was sullenly firing.

Slowly and sadly they laid him down,

From the field of his fame fresh and gory;

Though the ocean roar We carved not a line, we raised not a stone-
But we left him alone with his glory.

around me,

Yet it still shall bear me on;
Though a desert should surround me,
It hath springs that may be won.

Were't the last drop in the well,
As I gasped upon the brink,

Ere my fainting spirit fell,

'Tis to thee that I would drink,

With that water, as this wine,
The libation I would pour
Should be-peace to thine and mine,
And a health to thee, Tom Moore.

12

LORD BYRON.

THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.

OT a drum was heard, not a funeral note,

As his corse to the rampart was hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
O'er the grave where our hero was buried.

We buried him darkly at dead of night,
The sods with our bayonets turning;
By the struggling moonbeams' misty light,
And the lantern dimly burning.

No useless coffin enclosed his breast,

Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him;
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.

Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word of sorrow;

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CHARLES WOLFE

DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER.

MAJOR-GENERAL PHILIP KEARNEY, KILLED AT CHANTILLY,
VA., SEPT. 1, 1862.

LOSE his eyes; work is done!

What to him is friend or foeman,

Rise of moon or set of sun,

Hand of man or kiss of woman?

Lay him low, lay him low,
In the clover or the snow!
What cares he? he cannot know.
Lay him low!

As man may, he fought his fight,
Proved his truth by his endeavor,
Let him sleep in solemn night,
Sleep forever and forever.

Lay him low, lay him low,
In the clover or the snow!
What cares he? he cannot know:
Lay him low!

Fold him in his country's stars,
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars?
What but death-bemocking folly!
Lay him low, lay him low,
In the clover or the snow!
What cares he! he cannot know :
Lay him low!

Leave him to God's watching eye;

Trust him to the hand that made him.
Mortal love weeps idly by;

God alone has power to aid him

Lay him low, lay him lo

In the clover or the sno:

What cares he? he cannot know;

Lay him low!

GEORGE HENRY BOKER.

WASHINGTON AS A CIVILIAN.

OWEVER his military fame may excite tne wonder of mankind, it is chiefly by his civil magistracy that Washington's example will instruct them. Great generals have arisen in all ages of the world, and perhaps most in those of despotism and darkness. In times of violence and convulsion they rise, by the force of the whirlwind, high enough to ride in it and direct the storm. Like meteors, they glare on the black clouds with a splendor that, while it dazzles and terrifies, makes nothing visible but the darkness. The fame of heroes is indeed growing vulgar: they multiply in every long war; they stand in history, and thicken in their ranks almost as undistinguished as their own soldiers.

But such a c! ief magistrate as Washington appears like the pole-star in a clear sky, to direct the skilful statesman. His presidency will form an epoch, and be distinguished as the age of Washington. Already it assumes its high place in the political region. Like the milky way, it whitens along its allotted portion of the hemisphere. The latest generations of men will survey, through the telescope of history, the space where so many virtues blend their rays, and delight to separate them into groups and distinct virtues. As the best illustration of them, the living monument to which the first of patrious would have chosen to consign his fame, it is our earnest prayer to Heaven that our country may subsist, even to that late day, in the plenitude of its liberty and happiness, and mingle its mild glory with Washington's.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

From "Under the Elm," read at Cambridge, July 3, 1875, on the hundredth anniversary of Washington's taking command of the American army.

B

ENEATH our consecrated elm

A century ago he stood,

Famed vaguely for that old fight in the wood.
Which redly foam:èd round him but could no
overwhelm

The life foredoomed to wield our rough-hewn helm.
From colleges, where now the gown
To arms had yielded, from the town,
Our rude self-summoned levies flocked to see
The new-come chiefs and wonder which was he.

No need to question long; close-lipped and tall,
Long trained in murder-brooding forests lone
To bridle others' clamors and his own,
Firmly erect, he towered above them all,
The incarnate discipline that was to free
With iron curb that armed democracy.
Haughty they said he was, at first, severe,
But owned, as all men owned, the steady hand
Upon the bridle, patient to command,
Prized, as all prize, the justice pure from fear,
And learned to honor first, then love him, then revere.
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint,
And purpose clean as light from every selfish taint.

Musing beneath the legendary tree,
The years between furl off: I seem to see
The sun-flecks, shaken the stirred foliage through,
Dapple with gold his sober buff and blue,
And weave prophetic aureoles round the head
That shines our beacon now, nor darkens with the dead
O man of silent mood,

A stranger among strangers then, How art thou since renowned the great, the good, Familiar as the day in all the homes of men ! The winged years, that winnow praise and blame, Blow many names out: they but fan to flame The self-renewing splendors of thy fame. The announcement of the afflicting event of his O, for a drop of that terse Roman's ink death was made in the House of Representatives as Who gave Agricola cateless length of days, soon as the news reached Philadelphia, by John Mar- To celebrate him fitly, neither swerve shall, then a member of Congress from Virginia. Both To phrase unkempt, nor pass discretion's brink, houses immediately adjourned. The whole country With him so statuelike in sad reserve, was filled with gloom by the intelligence. Men of So diffident to claim, so forward to deserve! all parties in politics, and creeds in religion, united Nor need I shun due influence of his fame with Congress in paying honor to the memory of the citizen who, in the language of the resolution of Marshall adopted by the House, “was first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” These manifestations were no mere outward sem-Than that grave strength so patient and so pure, blance of grief, but the natural outbursts of the hearts of the people, prompted by the loss of a father. He was indeed everywhere regarded as the "Father of His Country." His remains were deposited in a family vault, on his own estate, on the banks of the Potomac, where they still lie entombed.

Who, mortal among mortals, seemed as now
The equestrian shape with unimpassioned brow,
That paces silent on through vistas of acclaim.
What figure more immovably august

Calm in good fortune, when it wavered, sure,
That soul serene impenetrably just,
Modelled on classic lines, so simple they endure?
That soul so softly radiant, and so white,
The track it left seems less of fire than light,
Cold but to such as love distemperature?

And if pure light, as some deem, be the force
That drives rejoicing planets on their course,
Why for his power benign seek an impurer source?
His was the true enthusiasm that burns long,
Domestically bright,

Fed from itself and shy of human sight,

The hidden force that makes a lifetime strong,
And not the short-lived fuel of a song.
Passionless, say you? What is passion for
But to sublime our natures and control
To front heroic toils with late return,
Or none, or such as shames the conqueror?
That fire was fed with substance of the soul,
And not with holiday stubble, that could burn
Through seven slow years of unadvancing war,
Equal when fields were lost or fields were won,
With breath of popular applause or blame,
Nor fanned, nor damped, unquenchably the same,
Too inward to be reached by flaws of idle fame.

Soldier and statesman, rarest unison;
High-poised example of great duties done
Simply as breathing, a world's honors worn
As life's indifferent gifts to all men born;
Dumb for himself, unless it were to God,
But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent,
Tramping the snow to coral where they trou,
Held by his awe in hollow-eyed content;
Modest, yet firm as nature's self; unblamed
Save by the men his nobler temper shamed;
Not honored then or now because he wooed
The popular voice, but that he still withstood;
Broad-minded, higher-souled, there is but one

Who was all this, and ours, and all men's-Washington.

Minds strong by fits, irregularly great,

That flash and darken like revolving lights,
Catch more the vulgar eye unschooled to wait
On the long curve of patient days and nights,
Rounding a whole life to the circle fair
Of orbed completeness; and this balanced soul
So simple in its grandeur, coldly bare

Of draperies theatric, standing there

In perfect symmetry of self-control,

Seems not so great at first, but greater grows

Still as we look, and by experince learn

How grand this quiet is, how nobly stern

The discipline that wrought through life-long throes This energetic passion of repose.

A nature too decorous and severe,

Too self-respectful in its griefs and joys

For ardent girls and boys,

Who find no genius in a mind so clear
That its grave depths seem obvious and near,
Nor a soul great that made so little noise.
They feel no force in that calm, cadenced phrase,
The habitual full-dress of his well-bred mind,
That seems to pace the minuet's courtly maze
And tell of ampler leisures, roomier length of days.

His broad-built brain, to self so little kind
That no tumultuary blood could blind,
Formed to control men, not amaze,

Looms not like those that borrow height of haze:
It was a world of statelier movement then
Than this we fret in, he a denizen

Of that ideal Rome that made a man for men.
Placid completeness, life without a fall
From faith or highest aims, truth's breachless wall,
Surely if any fame can bear the touch,

His will say "Here!" at the last trumpet's call,
The unexpressive man whose life expressed so much.
JAMES RUSSEll Lowell.

66

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN,

The ice was here, the ice was there,⚫

The ice was all around.-Coleridge.

WHITHER sail you, Sir John Franklin?"

Cried a whaler in Baffin's Bay.

"To know if between the land and the pole

I may find a broad sea-way.”

"I charge you back, Sir John Franklin,
As you would live and thrive;
For between the land and the frozen pole
No man may sail alive."

But lightly laughed the stout Sir John,
And spoke unto his men :-
"Half England is wrong, if he is right;
Bear off to the westward then."

“O, whither sail you, brave Englishman?"
Cried the little Esquimaux.
"Between the land and the polar star

My goodly vessels go."

"Come down, if you would journey there," The little Indian said;

"And change your cloth for fur clothing,
Your vessel for a sled."

But lightly laughed the stout Sir John,
And the crew laughed with him too;
“A sailor to change from ship to sled,
I ween, were something new."

All through the long, long polar day,

The vessels westward sped;
And wherever the sail of Sir John was blown,
The ice gave way and fled—

Gave way with many a hollow groan,

And with many a surly roar ;

But it murmured and threatened on every side,
And closed where he sailed before.

"Ho! see ye not, my merry men, The broad and open sea?

Bethink ye what the whaler said, Think of the little Indian's sled!" The crew laughed out in glee.

"Sir John, Sir John, 'tis bitter cold,

The scud drives on the breeze,
The ice comes looming from the north,
The very sunbeams freeze."

"Bright summer goes, dark winter comes

We cannot rule the year;

But long ere summer's sun goes down,

On yonder sea we'll steer."

The dripping icebergs dipped and rose,

And floundered down the gale;

The ships were stayed, and yards were manned, And furled the useless sail.

"The summer's gone, the winter's come,

We sail not on yonder sea;

Why sail we not, Sir John Franklin?"
A silent man was he.

"The summer goes, the winter comes-
We cannot rule the year;

I ween, we cannot rule the ways,
Sir John, wherein we'd steer."

The cruel ice came floating on,

And closed beneath the lee,

Till the thickening waters dashed no more'Twas ice around, behind. before

My God! there is no sea! "What think of the whaler now? you What of the Esquimaux !

A sled were better than a ship,

To cruise through ice and snow."
Down sank the baleful crimson sun,
The Northern Light came out,
And glared upon the ice-bound ships,
And shook its spears about.

The snow came down, storm breeding storm,
And on the decks was laid;

the weary sailor, sick at heart,
Sank down beside his spade.

Sir John, the night is black and long,
The hissing wind is bleak;

The hard, green ice is strong as death;
I prithee, Captain, speak!"

The night is neither bright nor short,
The singing breeze is cold,
The ice is not so strong as hope-
The heart of man is bold."

'What hope can scale this icy wall,
High o'er the main flag-staff?
Above the ridges the wolf and bear
Look down with a patient, settled stare,
Look down on us and laugh."

The summer went, the winter came-
We could not rule the year:
But summer will melt the ice again,
And open a path to the sunny main,
Whereon our ships shall steer.

The winter went, the summer went,
The winter came around;

But the hard, green ice was atrong as death.
And the voice of hope sank to a breath,

Yet caught at every sound.

"Hark! heard you not the noise of guns?
And there, and there again?"
"Tis some uneasy iceberg's roar,

As he turns in the frozen main.” "Hurrah! hurrah! the Esquimaux

Across the ice-fields steal."
"God give them grace for their charity!
Ye pray for the silly seal."

'Sir John, where are the English fields?
And where are the English trees?
And where are the little English flowers
That open in the breeze?"

Be still, be still, my brave sailors!
You shall see the fields again,

And smell the scent of the opening flower The grass and the waving grain." "Oh! when shall I see my orphan child?

My Mary waits for me." "Oh! when shall I see my old mother,

And pray at her trembling knee?" "Be still, be still, my brave sailors,

Think not such thoughts again!" But a tear froze slowly on his chee.. He thought of Lady Jane

Ah! bitter, bitter grows the cold,

The ice grows more and more; More settled stare the wolf and bear, More patient than before.

"Oh! think you, good Sir John Franklin, We'll ever see the land?

'Twas cruel to send us here to starve Without a helping hand.

"Twas cruel to send us here, Sir John,
So far from help or home,

To starve and freeze on this lonely sea:
I ween the Lords of the Admiralty
Had rather send than come."

"Oh! whether we starve to death alone,
Or sail to our own country,

We have done what man has never done-
The open ocean danced in the sun-
We passed the Northern Sea!"

GEORGE H. BOKUL

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