Where is He?—Ask the Maelstroom's whirl, Ask the giant oak, the graceful flower, Or the scarce-seen atom-fly. Where is He ?-Ask the awful calm The thunder-crash, the lightning-blaze, Where is He?-Ask the crystal isles Or ask, from lands of balm and spice, That presence-favoured spot; All, all, proclaim His dwelling-place, ON FLATTERERS. Cowper. No mischiefs, worthier of our fear, In nature can be found, Than friendship in ostent sincere, But hollow and unsound. For, lull'd into a dangerous dream, We close enfold a foe, Who strikes, when most secure we seem, THE HEAVENLY VISION. Parkes. SWEET was the dream that cheer'd me yesternight, As clay-cold corse: the hand was open quite, And I perceived within its hollow palm GOD SOUGHT IN ADVERSITY. T. M. A. Hood. WHEN fortune frowns, and honours fade, When disappointment's deadly blast Hath nipp'd the joys we thought would last, A Being who is full of love! When foes in arms are gather'd round, And nought is heard, save strife's dire sound,— Strife, which, when fortune smiled, we thought Never to know should be our lot; Still, still, we know there is, above, A Being who is full of love! When friends whom once we loved most true, When, banish'd from our native home, TO A DYING FRIEND. Miss Jewsbury. Go to thy glorious home, I would not stay thee, Go to the land where only pleasures flow; [thee, Might sorrowing love and human prayers detain Friend of my spirit-I would bid thee go. Go to thy glorious home, I would not stay thee, Fade on, fade on, as sweet day yields to night; And if the darkness for a while array thee, "Tis but to clothe thee in a day more bright. Yet blame not that my heart is wildly heaving, Triumph and joy are in my tears for thee, And if there mingle with them tears of grieving, How should the living from life's pangs be free? Light love may fade, and youthful zeal may perish, And thou art going-not as spring-flowers wither The haunts that knew thee, glade, and hearth, and bower, They will be silent when I bid them speak: And living friends, question'd till life's last hour, They will but tell me-" Gone is she you seek!" |