GARDENER. TRUE Brahmin, in the morning meadows wet, Expound the Vedas of the violet, Or, hid in vines, peeping through many a loop, See the plum redden, and the beurré stoop. FORESTER. He took the colour of his vest NORTHMAN. THE gale that wrecked you on the sand, The storm is my best galley hand, FROM ALCUIN. THE sea is the road of the bold, EXCELSIOR. OVER his head were the maple buds, And over the moon were the starry studs VOL. V. BORROWING. FROM THE FRENCH. SOME of your hurts you have cured, NATURE. BOON Nature yields each day a brag which we now first behold, And trains us on to slight the new, as if it were the old: But blest is he, who, playing deep, yet haply ask not why, Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live of die. FATE. HER planted eye to-day controls, HOROSCOPE. ERE he was born, the stars of fate POWER. CAST the bantling on the rocks, 1 CLIMACTERIC. I AM not wiser for my age, Nor skilful by my grief; Life loiters at the book's first page,— HERI, CRAS, HODIE. SHINES the last age, the next with hope is seen, MEMORY. NIGHT-DREAMS trace on Memory's wall And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray. LOVE. LOVE on his errand bound to go Can swim the flood, and wade through snow, Where way is none, 'twill creep and wind And eat through Alps its home to find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." PERICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, CASELLA. TEST of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore. SHAKESPEARE. I SEE all human wits HAFIZ. HER passions the shy violet. NATURE IN LEASTS. As sings the pine-tree in the wind, |