...and in what manner, the condition of this country corroborates the testimony of its history. POETRY. THE RIVULET. THIS little rill that, from the springs...feet when life was new. When woods in early green w«re drest, And from the chambers of the west The wanner breezes, travelling out. Breathed the new...

...these shall be because such things have been, For nature is immutable and keeps Ne changeful course. THE RIVULET. This little rill that, from the springs...current brings, Plays on the slope awhile, and then Gee's prattling into groves again, Oft to its warbling waters drew My little feet when life was new....

...cold, Fills the next grave — the beautiful and young." Something in the same vein are lines on " The Rivulet" This little rill that, from the springs...little feet, when life was new. When woods in early preen were drest, And from the chambers of the west The warmer breezes, travelling out, Breathed the...

...cold, Fills the next grave. — the beautiful and young." Something in the same vein are lines on " The Rivulet." This little rill that, from the springs...current brings, Plays on the slope awhile, and then Goes prattlmg into groves again, Oft to its warbling waters drew My little feet, when life was new. When...

...thought aud expression — much unforced felicity of association in tin- following little poem entitled " The Rivulet." " This little rill, that from the springs Of yonder grove its current brings, Flays on the slope awhile, and then Goes prattling into groves again, Oft to its warbling waters drew...

...correction. In the first p.irtigraph arc, however, some awkward constructions. In the verses, for example This little rill that from the springs Of yonder grove...current brings, Plays on the slope awhile, and then Goes pralling into groves again, the reader is apt to suppose that rill is the nominative to plays, wherciis...

...on the slope awhile, and then Goes prattling into grom again, Oft to il« warbling waters drew | 1 I My little feet, when life was new. When woods in early green were droat, And from the ehambers of the west The warmer breezes, travelling out, Breathed the new seent...

...cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die. THE RIVULET. THIS little rill that, from the springs...yonder grove, its current brings, Plays on the slope a while, and then Goes prattling into groves again, Oft to its warbling waters drew My little feet,...

...cord. When his weak hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die. THE RIVULET. THIS little rill that, from the springs Of yonder grove, its cur ent brings, Plays on the slope a while, and then Goes prattling into groves again. Oft to its warbling...

...rill is the nominative to plays, whereas it is the nominative only to drew in the subsequent lines, Oft to its warbling waters drew My little feet when life was new. The proper verb is, of course, immediately seen upon reading these latter lines — but the ambiguity...