Here the Magian his urn, full of perfume, is swinging, And here, at the altar, a zone of sweet bells

Round the waist of some fair Indian dancer is ringing. Or to see it by moonlight, when mellowly shines The light o'er its palaces, gardens, and shrines; When the water-falls gleam, like a quick fall of stars, And the nightingale's hymn from the Isle of Chenars Is broken by laughs and light echoes of feet

From the cool, shining walks where the young people

meet.

Or at morn, when the magic of daylight awakes
A new wonder each minute, as slowly it breaks,
Hills, cupolas, fountains, call'd forth every one
Out of darkness, as if but just born of the Sun.
When the Spirit of Fragance is up with the day,
From his Haram of night-flowers stealing away;
And the wind, full of wantonness, woos like a lover
The young aspen-trees, till they tremble all over.
When the East is as warm as the light of first hopes,
And Day, with his banner of radiance unfurl'd,
Shines in through the mountainous portal that opes,
Sublime, from that Valley of bliss to the world!

LIGHT CAUSES MAY CREATE DISSENSION.

Alas!-how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,

And sorrow but more closely tied ;

That stood the storm, when waves were rough,

Yet in a sunny hour fall off,

Like ships that have gone down at sca,
When heaven was all tranquillity!
A something, light as air-a look,

A word unkind or wrongly taken--
Oh! love, that tempests never shook,

A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
And ruder words will soon rush in
To spread the breach that words begin;

And eyes forget the gentle ray

They wore in courtship's smiling day;
And voices lose the tone that shed
A tenderness round all they said;
Till fast declining, one by one,
The sweetnesses of love are gone,
And hearts, so lately mingled, seem
Like broken clouds,-or like the stream,
That smiling left the mountain's brow,

As though its waters ne'er could sever,
Yet, ere it reach the plain below,
Breaks into floods, that part for ever.

SONG OF THE ARAB MAID.

Fly to the desert, fly with me,
Our Arab tents are rude for thee;

But, oh! the choice what heart can doubt,
Of tents with love, or thrones without?

Our rocks are rough, but smiling there
The acacia waves her yellow hair,
Lonely and sweet, nor lov'd the less
For flow'ring in a wilderness.

Our sands are bare, but down their slope
The silv'ry-footed antelope

As gracefully and gaily springs

As o'er the marble courts of kings.

Then come-1
-thy Arab maid will be
The lov'd and lone acacia-tree,
The antelope, whose feet shall bless
With their light sound thy loneliness.

Oh! there are looks and tones that dart
An instant sunshine through the heart,-
As if the soul that minute caught

Some treasure it through life had sought;

As if the very lips and eyes,
Predestin'd to have all our sighs,

And never be forgot again,
Sparkled and spoke before us then!

So came thy ev'ry glance and tone
When first on me they breath'd and shone;
New, as if brought from other spheres,
Yet welcome as if lov'd for years.

Then fly with me,-if thou hast known
No other flame, nor falsely thrown
A gem away, that thou hadst sworn
Should ever in thy heart be worn.
Come, if the love thou hast for me,
Is pure and fresh as mine for thee,-
Fresh as the fountain under ground,
When first 'tis by the lapwing found.
But if for me thou dost forsake
Some other maid, and rudely break
Her worshipp'd image from its base,
To give to me the ruin'd place;—
Then, fare thee well-I'd rather make
My bower upon some icy lake
When thawing suns begin to shine,
Than trust to love so false as thine!

CHAPTER VII.

NATIONAL AIRS AND SACRED MELODIES-VISIT TO PARIS-THE FUDGE FAMILY-SLOPERTON-TRUE CHARITY.

National Airs, a volume of poems, containing "Flow on, thou Shining River," "All that's Bright must Fade," "Those Evening Bells," "Oft in the Stilly Night,” and others, was published in 1815.

From it we select the following:

HARK! THE VESPER HYMN IS STEALING.

RUSSIAN AIR.

Hark! the vesper hymn is stealing

O'er the waters soft and clear;
Nearer yet and nearer pealing,
And now bursts upon the ear:
Jubilate, Amen.

Farther now, now farther stealing,
Soft it fades upon the ear:
Jubilate, Amen.

Now, like moonlight waves retreating
To the shore, it dies along;
Now, like angry surges meeting,
Breaks the mingled tide of song:

Jubilate, Amen.

Hush! again, like waves, retreating
To the shore, it dies along:
Jubilate, Amen.

REASON, FOLLY, AND BEAUTY.

ITALIAN AIR.

Reason, and Folly, and Beauty, they say,
Went on a party of pleasure one day:

Folly play'd

Around the maid,

The bells of his cap rang merrily out;
While Reason took

To his sermon-book

Oh! which was the pleasanter no one need doubt,
Which was the pleasanter no one need doubt.

Beauty, who likes to be thought very sage,
Turn'd for a moment to Reason's dull page,
Till Folly said,

"Look here, sweet maid!"—

The sight of his cap brought her back to herself;

While Reason read

His leaves of lead,

With no one to mind him, poor sensible elf!
No, no one to mind him, poor sensible elf!
Then Reason grew jealous of Folly's gay cap;
Had he that on, he her heart might entrap—
"There it is,"

Quoth Folly, "old quiz!”

(Folly was always good-natured, 'tis said,) "Under the sun

There's no such fun,

As Reason with my cap and bells on his head,
Reason with my cap and bells on his head!”

But Reason the head-dress so awkwardly wore,
That Beauty now lik'd him still less than before;
While Folly took

Old Reason's book,

And twisted the leaves in a cap of such ton,
That Beauty vow'd

(Though not aloud),

She lik'd him still better in that than his own, Yes,--lik'd him still better in that than his own.

OH, COME TO ME WHEN DAYLIGHT SETS.

VENETIAN AIR.

Oh, come to me when daylight sets;
Sweet! then come to me,
When smoothly go our gondolets
O'er the moonlight sea.

When Mirth's awake, and Love begins,

Beneath that glancing ray,

With sound of lutes and mandolins,

To steal young hearts away.

Then, come to me when daylight sets;

Sweet! then come to me,

When smoothly go our gondolets

O'er the moonlight sea