Where joy no more may linger, Where love hath left his bower: And there's many a spirit e'en like thee, Though it soar from ruins in its glee, DIRGE AT SEA, SLEEP!-we give thee to the wave, Sleep! thy billowy field is won. Lonely, lonely is thy bed, Never there may flower be shed, Marble rear'd, or brother's head Yet thy record on the sea, Borne through battle high and free, PILGRIM'S SONG TO THE EVENING STAR. O SOFT star of the west! Thou'rt guiding all things home, Thou bring'st from rock and wave, O soft star of the west, No bowery roof is mine, O soft star of the west, breast, Thou'rt guiding all things home, Shine from thy rosy heaven, Pour joy on earth and sea! Look forth to watch for me! Light of a thousand streams, O soft star of the west! THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS. "We take each other by the hand, and we exchange a few words and looks of kindness, and we rejoice together for a few short moments; and then days, months, years intervene, and we see and know nothing of each other."-WASHINGTON IRVING. Two barks met on the deep mid-sea, A few bright days of summer glee And voices of the fair and brave Moonlight on that lone Indian main And hands were link'd, and answering eyes With kindly meaning shone ; Oh! brief and passing sympathies, Like leaves together blown. A little while such joy was cast Till the loud singing winds at last And proudly, freely on their way Never to blend in victory's cheer, And thus bright spirits mingle here, Such ties are formed below. COME AWAY.* COME away!-the child where flowers are springing, Bounding on, with sunny lands before him, • This song is in the possession of Mr Power, to be set to music, Slowly, sadly, heavy change is falling Come away!—the heart, at last forsaken, In the light leaves, in the reed's faint sighing, FAIR HELEN OF KIRCONNEL. ["Fair Helen of Kirconnel," as she is called in the Scottish Minstrelsy, throwing herself between her betrothed lover and a rival by whom his life was assailed, received a mortal wound, and died in the arms of the former.] HOLD me upon thy faithful heart, Keep back my flitting breath; 'Tis early, early to depart, Beloved!-yet this is death! Look on me still :-let that kind eye |