In terror she cried, letting sink her Then I pacified Mary and kissed her, But were stopped by the warning of doom,- Then my heart it grew ashen and sober, That I journeyed—I journeyed down here,— Why no longer they credit me here,Well I know now that music of Auber, And this Nightingale, kept by one Shear. North Beach. (AFTER SPENSER.) Lo! where the castle of bold Pfeiffer throws No more the home where joy and wealth repose, Here cometh oft the tender nursery-maid, Ah me! what sounds the shuddering echoes bore Hard by there stands an ancient hostelrie, On her gay bonnet wears, and laugheth loud in glee! The Lost Tails of Miletus. HIGH on the Thracian hills, half hid in the billows of clover, Thyme, and the asphodel blooms, and lulled by Pactolian streamlet, She of Miletus lay, and beside her an aged satyr Scratched his ear with his hoof, and playfully mumbled his chestnuts. Vainly the Manid and the Bassarid gambolled about her, The free-eyed Bacchante sang, and Pan-the renowned, the accomplished Executed his difficult solo. In vain were their gambols and dances: High o'er the Thracian hills rose the voice of the shepherdess, wailing. "Ai! for the fleecy flocks,-the meek-nosed, the passionless faces; Ai! for the tallow-scented, the straight-tailed, the high stepping; Ai! for the timid glance, which is that which the rustic, sagacious, Applies to him who loves but may not declare his passion!" Her then Zeus answered slow: "O daughter of song and sorrow, Hapless tender of sheep,-arise from thy long lamentation! Since thou canst not trust fate, nor behave as becomes a Greek maiden, Look and behold thy sheep."-And lo! they returned to her tailless ! The Ritualist. BY A COMMUNICANT OF "ST. JAMES'S." He wore, I think, a chasuble, the day when first we met; A stole and snowy alb likewise: I recollect it yet. He called me " daughter," as he raised his jewelled hand to bless; And then, in thrilling undertones, he asked, "Would I confess ? " O mother dear! blame not your child, if then on bended knees I dropped, and thought of Abélard, and also Eloise; Or when, beside the altar high, he bowed before the pyx, I envied that seraphic kiss he gave the crucifix. The cruel world may think it wrong, perhaps may deem me weak, And, speaking of that sainted man, may call his conduct "cheek;" And, like that wicked barrister whom Cousin Harry quotes, May term his mixèd chalice "grog," his vestments "petticoats: " But, whatsoe'er they do or say, I'll build a Christian's hope On incense and on altar-lights, on chasuble and cope. Let others prove, by precedent, the faith that they profess: "His can't be wrong" that's symbolised by such becoming dress. |