THE DISINTERRED WARRIOR. ATHER him to his grave again, GAT And solemnly and softly lay, Beneath the verdure of the plain, The warrior's scattered bones away. Pay the deep reverence, taught of old, The homage of man's heart to death; Nor dare to trifle with the mould Once hallowed by the Almighty's breath. The soul hath quickened every part- For he was fresher from the hand That formed of earth the human face, And to the elements did stand In nearer kindred than our race. In many a storm has been his path; But met them, and defied their wrath. Then they were kind-the forests here, A tribute to the net and spear Of the red ruler of the shade. A noble race! but they are gone, With their old forests wide and deep, Fields where their generations sleep. A SCENE ON THE BANKS OF THE HUDSON. COOL shades and dews are round my way, Coo And silence of the early day; Mid the dark rocks that watch his bed, Glitters the mighty Hudson spread, From shrubs that fringe his mountain wall; And o'er the clear still water swells The music of the Sabbath bells. All, save this little nook of land, Seems a blue void, above, below, Through which the white clouds come and go; And from the green world's farthest steep Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. VOL. I.-13 The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower. River! in this still hour thou hast "Talisman," 1828. L THE HURRICANE. ORD of the winds! I feel thee nigh, I know thy breath in the burning sky! And I wait, with a thrill in every vein, For the coming of the hurricane! And lo! on the wing of the heavy gales, Through the boundless arch of heaven he sails; Silent and slow, and terribly strong, The mighty shadow is borne along, While the world below, dismayed and dumb, They darken fast; and the golden blaze Of the sun is quenched in the lurid haze, A beam that touches, with hues of death, |