...into the element) which it contemplates :' — Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er rers in the action, so that, being sufficiently furnished...West side of this part of America, we should agay arc robb'd, sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll...

...corse." l And in the words of another poet : — " Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men."2 It is unnecessary to refer to the well-known and truly pathetic ballad of the Babes in the Wood,...

...the robin as coadjutors in this office — 44 Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." Probably our correspondent received the sugges, tion from that delightful story of our childhood, "...

...robin as coadjutors in this friendly office : Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Notwithstanding the beautiful passage in Shakespeare to which we have alluded, it is nevertheless undeniable...

...also." — Cornucopia, by Thos. Johnson, 1596. " Call for the robin redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men." Webster's White Devil (Dyce's Ed. 1830, vol. i, p. 146). " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed eye,...

...into the elements which it contemplates :' — Call for the robin red-breast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers...field-mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shitll keep him warm, And, when gay tombs are robb'd, sustain no harm ; But keep the wolf far thence,...

...into the elements which it contemplates : — Call for the robin red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers...raise him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And, when gray tombs are robb'd, sustain no harm; But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his...

...do cover The friendless bodies ofunburied men. Coil unto his funeral dole The ant, the field mouse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shall keep...robb'd, sustain no harm : But keep the wolf far thence, that "s foe to men, For with his nails he '11 dig them up again. THE SA.ME. " I never saw," says Lamb,...

...into the elements which it contemplates : — Call for the robin red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers...unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole, The ant, the fleld-monse, and the mole, To raise him hillocks that shall keep him warm, And, when gray tombs are...

...Webster, who wrote in 1630 — 1638, says:— " Call for the robin redbreast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Michael Dray ton too alludes to it: — " Covering with moss the dead's unclosed eye, The little redbreast...