XXV. Yea, soon, no consonant unsmooth Our smile-tuned lips shall reach. Sounds sweet as Hellas spake in youth, Shall glide into our speech. (What music, certes, can you find As soft as voices which are kind?) XXVI. And often, by the joy without We, through our musing, shall let float XXVII. Or Eschylus-the pleasant fields Or Poet Plato, had the undim XXVIII. Choose me the cave most worthy choice, To make a place for prayer, And I will choose a praying voice To pour our spirits there. How silverly the echoes run Thy will be done,—thy will be done. VOL. II.-4 XXIX. Gently yet strangely uttered words!- The streams are dry, no sun could find—- XXX. So oft the doing of God's will Our foolish wills undoeth! And yet what idle dream breaks ill, THE SOUL'S TRAVELLING. Ηδη νοερους Πετασαι ταρσους. SYNESIUS. 1. DWELL amid the city ever. I sit and harken while it rolls. Certes is the flow of souls. Infinitest tendencies By the finite prest and pent, In the finite, turbulent, How we tremble in surprise, When sometimes with an awful sound, II. The champ of the steeds on the silver bit, The trail on the street of the poor man's broom, Laid yesterday where it will not wake. The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, The brothel shriek, and the Newgate laugh, The hum upon 'Change, and the organ's grinding, The grinder's face being nevertheless Dry and vacant of even woe, While the children's hearts are leaping so The black-plumed funeral's creeping train As fast as Life though it hurry and strain !) To the sunshiny world, has just struggled and cried; With a scarlet blush to-day. Slowly creep the funerals, As none should hear the noise and say, Hark! an upward shout is sent! In grave strong joy from tower to steeple The trumpets sound, the people shout, And boonus the deep majestic voice Through trump and drum-‘May the queen rejoice In the people's liberties!' III. I dwell amid the city, And hear the flow of souls in act and speech, Thy voice is a complaint, O crownéd city, IV. O blue sky! it mindeth me As by God's arm it were done Then for the first time, with the emotion Of that first impulse on it still. Oh, we spirits fly at will, As he breasteth the steep thundercloud,- Gliding up from wave to air, While she smileth debonair Yet holy, coldly and yet brightly, |