LETTY'S GLOBE. HEN Letty had scarce passed her third glad year, And her young, artless words began to flow, One day we gave the child a coloured sphere Of the wide earth, that she might mark and know, She patted all the world; old empires peep'd Was welcome at all frontiers. How she leap'd, On our own isle, she raised a joyous cry, "Oh! yes, I see it, Letty's home is there!" And, while she hid all England with a kiss, Bright over Europe fell her golden hair. THE FOREST GLADE. S one dark morn I trod a forest glade, A sunbeam entered at the further end, And ran to meet me thro' the yielding shade As one, who in the distance sees a friend, And, smiling, hurries to him; but mine eyes, For sad my thoughts had been-the tempest's wrath Had turned my feet into that forest-way, Just when His morning light came down the path, Among the lonely woods at early day. THE GOSSAMER-LIGHT. UICK gleam! that ridest on the gossamer ! A gentle joust set on by summer air! How oft I watch thee from my garden-chair! In the fair garden or the breezy mead; The wind dismounts thee not; thy buoyant thread Like light, a golden drift through all the song! IN AND OUT OF THE PINE-WOOD. EYOND the pine-wood all look'd bright and clear And, ever by our side, as on we drove, As some fair thought, of heavenly light and force, Of dim expression, glittering in its course Through many loop-holes, till its face is seen; Some thoughts ne'er pass beyond their close confines ; Theirs is the little taper's homely lot, A woodside glimmer, distanced and forgot Whose trivial gleam, that twinkles more than shines, Is left behind to die among the pines ; Our stars are carried out, and vanish not! IRREPARABLENESS. HAVE been in the meadows all the day When such do field-work on a morn of May. But now I look upon my flowers, decay Has met them in my hands more fatally Because more warmly clasped,—and sobs are free My heart is very tired, my strength is low, N |