THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies, All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a love once, fairest among women; Closed are her doors on me, I must not see herAll, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man; Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood. Earth seemed a desart I was bound to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. HELEN. HIGH-BORN Helen, round your dwelling These twenty years I've paced in vain : Haughty beauty, thy lover's duty Hath been to glory in his pain. High-born Helen, proudly telling These twenty years I've lived on tears, On sighs I've fed, your scorn my bread; Can I, who loved my beloved But for the scorn was in her eye," Can I be moved for my beloved, When she "returns me sigh for sigh?” In stately pride, by my bed-side, High-born Helen's portrait's hung; Deaf to my praise, my mournful lays Are nightly to the portrait sung. To that I weep, nor ever sleep, Complaining all night long to herHelen, grown old, no longer cold, Said, "you to all men I prefer." A VISION OF REPENTANCE. I SAW a famous fountain, in my dream, And all around the fountain brink were spread Wide branching trees, with dark green leaf rich clad, Forming a doubtful twilight-desolate and sad. The place was such, that whoso enter'd in, Or to the world's first innocence was brought; A most strange calm stole o'er my soothed sprite; Long time I stood, and longer had I staid, When, lo! I saw, saw by the sweet moon-light, Which came in silence o'er that silent shade, |