Beyond the flight of time,- Nor life's affections transient fire, There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A long eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; Thus star by star declines, As morning high and higher shines To pure and perfect day: Nor sink those stars in empty night, But hide themselves in Heaven's own light. SONG, FROM FANNY." FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. YOUNG thoughts have music in them, leve Love And happiness their theme; And music wanders in the wind There's music in the forest leaves, Has music in his song, and in The fluttering of his wing. * But the music of young thoughts too soon And from our morning dreams we wake To curse the coming day, And childhood's frolic hours are brief, And oft, in after years, Their memory comes to chill the heart, To-day the forest leaves are green; And the maiden's laugh be changed, ere long, Come with the winter snows, and ask Where are the forest-birds; The answer is a silent one, More eloquent than words. 66 EPIGRAM. FROM LE RAMELET MOUNDI," BY GODELIN. THE gay, who would be counted wise, them. 1 SWEEP on, ye winds, my love ye bear To distant climes, o'er dangerous seas, Where Nature strives, with effort rare, Man's wild, inconstant mind to please. Rise, favouring zephyrs, rise for her, With watchful care My fair one bear, For every wave Has been the grave Of some ill-fated Mariner ! Where those watch-towers rise sublime, Those on which the white spray's tost, There in summer's sunniest time, There the proudest bark was lost. Long time did Fate her frown defer, But giant strength Was tired at length, And every wave Became the grave Of some ill-fated Mariner! U The sails are spread to catch the wind, My faithful fair, O'er every wave That marks the grave Of some ill-fated Mariner! THE CROW. WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. FROM MANCHESTER POETRY," 1838. W. H. AINSWORTH WAS BORN IN KING-STREET, MANCHESTER, FEBRUARY 4, 1805. THE carrion crow is a sexton bold, He taketh the dead from out the mould, The carrion crow hath a coat of black, |