But a strain of sweetest melody The blessed sound of woman's voice, And my thoughts began to soften, And all once more was bright with faith, Он pure TO THE URSULINES. and gentle ones, within your ark Blue be the sky above-your quiet bark Still toil in duty, and commune with Heaven, God to his humblest creatures room has given Space for the eagle in the vaulted sky Space for the ringdove by her young to lie, Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow, Space for the violet, where the wild woods grow, To live and die. Space for the ocean, in its giant might, Space for the river, tinged with rosy light, Space for the sun to tread his path in might Space for the glow-worm, calling, by her light, Then, pure and gentle ones, within your ark Blue be the skies above, and your still bark FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.1 [Born in 1795, died in 1868. His maternal descent was from John Eliot, "the Apostle of the Indians." He engaged in business, acting for several years as agent to the great capitalist Astor]. MARCO BOZZARIS. Ar midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour In dreams, through camp and court he bore In dreams his song of triumph heard; Then wore his monarch's signet-ring; Then pressed that monarch's throne-a king: As Eden's garden-bird. At midnight, in the forest shades, Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band, In the case of Halleck, and of other American poets who figure also in our selection of Humorous Poems, the notice here given of the writer is repeated from that volume without alteration -save in the case of Whitman. True as the steel of their tried blades, There had the Persian's thousands stood, And now there breathed that haunted air An hour passed on-the Turk awoke; He woke to hear his sentries shriek, 66 To arms! they come the Greek! the Greek!" He woke to die midst flame, and smoke, And shout, and groan, and sabre-stroke, And death-shots falling thick and fast "Strike-till the last armed foe expires; They fought-like brave men, long and well; Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won ; Then saw in death his eyelids close Like flowers at set of sun. Come to the bridal chamber, Death! That close the pestilence are broke, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, The thanks of millions yet to be. Of sky and stars to prisoned men: Bozzaris! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume Like torn branch from death's leafless tree In sorrow's pomp and pageantry, The heartless luxury of the tomb. But she remembers thee as one C Long loved, and for a season gone. Talk of thy doom without a sigh: A POET'S DAUGHTER. FOR THE ALBUM OF MISS, AT THE REQUEST OE HER FATHER. "A LADY asks the Minstrel's rhyme." A Lady asks? There was a time To wearied boy, That sound would summon dreams sublimc Of pride and joy. But now the spell hath lost its sway; Life's first-born fancies first decay, Gone are the plumes and pennons gay Of young Romance; There linger but her ruins grey, |