ON RE-VISITING THE SEA-SHORE, AFTER LONG ABSENCE, UNDER STRONG MEDICAL RECOMMENDATION NOT TO BATHE. God be with thee, gladsome Ocean! Dissuading spake the mild Physician, But my soul fulfilled her mission, And lo! I breathe untroubled breath! FASHION'S pining Sons and Daughters, VOL. I. P Me a thousand hopes and pleasures, Dreams, (the Soul herself forsaking,) A blessed shadow of this Earth! O ye hopes, that stir within me, I cannot die, if Life be Love. Yea, he deserves to find himself deceived, SCHILLER. HYMN BEFORE SUN-RISE, IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNY. Besides the Rivers, Arve and Arveiron, which have their sources in the foot of Mount Blanc, five conspicuous torrents rush down its sides; and within a few paces of the Glaciers, the Gentiana Major grows in immense numbers, with its ་ flowers of loveliest blue." HAST thou a charm to stay the Morning-Star Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! |