“And where went Jane ?” ̄«To a nunnery, Sir Look not again so pale Kinghorn's old dame grew harsh to her.""And she has ta'en the veil !"— "Sit down, Sir," said the priest, “I bar Rash words."-They sat all three, And the boy play'd with the knight's broad star, As he kept him on his knee. "Think ere you ask her dwelling-place," The abbot further said; "Time draws a veil o'er beauty's face More deep than cloister's shade. Grief may have made her what you can The priest undid two doors that hid And there a lovely woman stood, One moment may with bliss repay Such was the throb and mutual sob Of the Knight embracing Jane. MEN of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood! Men whose undegenerate spirit Has been proved on field and flood: By the foes you've fought uncounted By the glorious deeds ye've done, Trophies captured-breaches mounted, Navies conquer'd-kingdoms won! Yet, remember, England gathers Hence but fruitless wreaths of fame, If the freedom of your fathers Glow not in your hearts the same. What are monuments of bravery, Trophied temples, arch, and tomb? Pageants!-Let the world revere us Bared in Freedom's holy cause. Yours are Hampden's, Russell's glory, Worth a hundred Agincourts! We're the sons of sires that baffled SONG. DRINK ye to her that each loves best, That's told but to her mutual breast, We will not ask her name. Enough, while memory tranced and glad Paints silently the fair, That each should dream of joys he's had, Or yet may hope to share. Yet far, far hence be jest or boast THE HARPER. On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I; No harp like my own could so cheerily play, When at last I was forced from my Sheelah to part, She said, (while the sorrow was big at her heart,) Oh! remember your Sheelah when far, far away: And be kind, my dear Pat, to our poor dog Tray. Poor dog! he was faithful and kind, to be sure, And he constantly loved me, although I was poor; When the sour-looking folks sent me heartless away, I had always a friend in my poor dog Tray. When the road was so dark, and the night was so cold Though my wallet was scant, I remember'd his case, Where now shall I go, poor, forsaken, and blind? THE WOUNDED HUSSAR. ALONE to the banks of the dark-rolling Danube Fair Adelaide hied when the battle was o'er :"Oh whither," she cried," hast thou wander'd, my lover, Or here dost thou welter and bleed on the shore? What voice did I hear? 'twas my Henry that sigh'd!" From his bosom that heaved, the last torrent was streaming, And pale was his visage, deep mark'd with a scar! And dim was that eye, once expressively beaming, That melted in love, and that kindled in war! How smit was poor Adelaide's heart at the sight! How bitter she wept o'er the victim of war! "Hast thou come, my fond Love, this last sorrowful night, To cheer the lone heart of your wounded Hussar ?" "Thou shalt live," she replied, "Heaven's mercy relieving Each anguishing wound, shall forbid me to mourn!”"Ah, no! the last pang of my bosom is heaving! No light of the morn shall to Henry return! |