THE ARRANGEMENT.

“METHOUGHT that of these visionary flowers
I made a nosegay, bound in such a way
That the same hues, which in their natural bowers
Were mingled or opposed, the like array

Kept these imprisoned children of the Hours
Within my hand; and then, elate and gay,

I hastened to the spot whence I had come,
That I might there present it-O! to whom?"
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

Folk-Songs.

GOD sent his singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,