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And you, ye five wild torrents fiercely | Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like glad!

death,

sounds!

Who called you forth from night and utter And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God! Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost!

From dark and icy caverns called you forth,
Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks,
For ever shattered and the same for ever?
Who gave you your invulnerable life,

Ye wild goats sporting round the eagle's nest!

Your strength, your speed, your fury, and Ye eagles, playmates of the mountain-storm!

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Who made you glorious as the gates of Thou too again, stupendous Mountain! thou Heaven

That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low

Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade In adoration, upward from thy base

the sun

Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers

feet?

Slow travelling with dim eyes suffused with

tears,

Solemnly seemest, like a vapoury cloud,

Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your To rise before me-Rise, O ever rise!
Rise like a cloud of incense, from the Earth!
God!-let the torrents, like a shout of na- Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills,

tions,

Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God! God! sing ye meadow-streams with gladsome voice!

Thou dread ambassador from Earth to Heaven,
Great Hierarch! tell thou the silent sky,
And tell the stars, and tell yon rising sun,
Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

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CHEEKS as soft as July peaches;
Lips whose dewy scarlet teaches
Poppies paleness; round large eyes
Ever great with new surprise;
Minutes filled with shadeless gladness;
Minutes just as brimmed with sadness;
Happy smiles and wailing cries;
Crows and laughs and tearful eyes;
Lights and shadows, swifter born
Than on wind-swept autumn corn;
Ever some new tiny notion,
Making every limb all motion;
Catchings up of legs and arms;
Throwings back and small alarms;
Clutching fingers; straightening jerks;
Twining feet whose each toe works;
Kickings up and straining risings;
Mother's ever new surprisings;
Hands all wants and looks all wonder
At all things the heavens under;
Tiny scorns of smiled reprovings
That have more of love than lovings;
Mischiefs done with such a winning
Archness that we prize such sinning;
Breakings dire of plates and glasses;
Graspings small at all that passes;
Pullings off of all that's able
To be caught from tray or table;
Silences small meditations

Deep as thoughts of cares for nations.
Breaking into wisest speeches
In a tongue that nothing teaches;
All the thoughts of whose possessing
Must be wooed to light by pressing;

Slumbers-such sweet angel-seemings
That we'd ever have such dreamings;
Till from sleep we see thee breaking,
And we'd always have thee waking;
Wealth for which we know no measure;
Pleasure high above all pleasure;
Gladness brimming over gladness;
Joy in care; delight in sadness;
Loveliness beyond completeness;
Sweetness distancing all sweetness;
Beauty all that beauty may be ;-
That's May Bennett; that's my baby.

WILLIAM C. BENNETT.

LULLABY.

SWEET and low, sweet and low,

Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,

Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go;
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me;

While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.

Sleep and rest, sleep and rest;

Father will come to thee soon.
Rest, rest on mother's breast;

Father will come to thee soon.
Father will come to his babe in the nest;
Silver sails all out of the west

Under the silver moon;

Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

ALFRED TENNYSON.

CHOOSING A NAME.

I HAVE got a new-born sister;
I was nigh the first that kissed her.
When the nursing-woman brought her
To papa, his infant daughter,
How papa's dear eyes did glisten!—
She will shortly be to christen;
And papa has made the offer,
I shall have the naming of her.

And now he smiles, as if to say,
"I am a Christian made this day;"
Now frighted clings to nurse's hold,
Shrinking from the water cold,
Whose virtues, rightly understood,
Are, as Bethesda's waters, good.

Strange words-The World, The Flesh, The
Devil-

Poor babe, what can it know of evil?
But we must silently adore

Mysterious truths, and not explore.
Enough for him, in after times,

Now I wonder what would please her- When he shall read these artless rhymes,

Charlotte, Julia, or Louisa?

Ann and Mary, they 're too common;
Joan's too formal for a woman;
Jane's a prettier name beside;
But we had a Jane that died.
They would say, if 't was Rebecca,
That she was a little Quaker.
Edith 's pretty, but that looks
Better in old English books;
Ellen 's left off long ago;
Blanche is out of fashion now.
None that I have named as yet
Are so good as Margaret.
Emily is neat and fine;

What do you think of Caroline?
How I'm puzzled and perplexed
What to choose or think of next!
I am in a little fever

Lest the name that I should give her
Should disgrace her or defame her;-
I will leave papa to name her.

MARY LAMB.

THE CHRISTENING.

ARRAYED-a half-angelic sight-
In vests of pure baptismal white,
The mother to the Font doth bring
The little helpless, nameless thing
With hushes soft and mild caressing,
At once to get-a name and blessing.
Close by the babe the priest doth stand,
The cleansing water at his hand
Which must assoil the soul within
From every stain of Adam's sin.

The infant eyes the mystic scenes,

Nor knows what all this wonder means;

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