The sky was a dome of crystal bright, The fountain of vision, and fountain of light; Then deep in the stream her body they laid, That her youth and beauty never might fade: "Oh! blest be the day Kilmeny was born! Shall wear away, and be seen nae mair, Then Kilmeny begg'd again to see The friends she had left in her own countrye, And the glories that lay in the land unseen; The loved of Heaven, the spirits' care, With distant music, soft and deep, They lull'd Kilmeny sound asleep; And when she awakened, she lay her lane, Such beauty bard may never declare, For there was no pride nor passion there And the soft desire of maiden's een In that mild face could never be seen. Her seymar was the lily flower, And her cheek the moss-rose in the shower, But she loved to raike the lanely glen, To suck the flowers, and drink the spring. The wild beasts of the hill were cheer'd; The wolf play'd blithely round the field, The lordly bison low'd and kneel'd; The dun deer woo'd with manner bland, Oh, then the glen was all in motion ! Broke from their bughts and faulds the tame, And murmur'd, and look'd with anxious pain The buzzard came with the throstle-cock : The wolf and the kid their raike began, And the tod, and the lamb, and the leveret ran; The hawk and the hern attour them hung, And the merl and the mavis forhooyed their young; And all in a peaceful ring were hurl'd; It was like an eve in a sinless world! When a month and a day had come and gane, She left this world of sorrow and pain, And return'd to the Land of Thought again. FELICIA HEMANS. THE CORONATION OF INEZ DE CASTRO. THERE was music on the midnight: From a royal fane it roll'd; And a mighty bell, each pause between, Strange was their mingling in the sky; There was hurrying through the midnight, A sound of many feet; And they fell with muffled fearfulness Along the shadowy street: And softer, fainter grew their tread, As it near'd the minster gate, Whence a broad and solemn light was shed Full glow'd the strong red radiance Where the folds of a purple canopy With a weight of gorgeous gloom; For something lay 'midst their fretted gold, |