J , m H 1 in >_4 d fX3 QJ nd D _c: ^^ QJ r; -^ fTl □ ' ' ' '^ " ,~| CD rn QJ a d a , — ' r- tic ^ > rt) w (=: D r; rC rr) DJ u U cn_. CLi >-. rd ^ tw IX] m ^ '*Z^ ^< OYAL GALLERY OF POETET AND AET. AN ILLUSTEATED BOOK Favorite Poetic Gems of the English Language, CHOICEST PRODUCTIONS OF AUTHORS, LIVING AND DEAD, The Uncrowned Kings and Queens of American Homes, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HEY. W. H. MILBURN, D. D., Chaplain National House of Representatives, Washington, D. C, A-ulhor of ** Tlie rPioneer Preachers and I>eople of the JVIississippi "Valley ; " " The Kifle- .Ajce and Saddlebags;" "Ten 'STears of Preachei- Xiife," Etc., Etc. THE HEART OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN ONE VOLUME, ENRICHED WITH 400 BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS. BOSTON: ADAMS, PUTNAM & CO. 1886. n TP 53622 Enterefl according to Act of Congress in the year 1886, by N. D. THOMPSON PUBLISHING CO., In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. 7^' CONTENTS IXTIJODUCTION HOME AND FIRESIDE. PAGE. The Cotter's Saturday Night . . Bobert Burns 17 Make Home-Life Beautiful . . B. G. XoHhrup Sougs of Seven Jean Ingelow The Old Oaken Bucket . . Samuel Woodworlh Graves of a Household . . Felicia D. Hemans Childhood Home B. P. Shillaber (Mrs.Parlimjton) Haiu on the Jioof Coates Kinney Bairnies, Cuddle Doou . . Alexander Anderson Old Folks at Uouie . . Stephen Collins Foster Home, Sweet Home . . . John Howard Payne My Old Kentucky Home . Stephen Collins Foster Be Kind Anonymous Mothers, Spare Yourselves . . . . Anonymous lu a Strauge Laud . . . James Thomas Fields The Patter of Little Feet .... Anonymous Catchiug Shadows F. Ilannaford A Cradle Hyma Isaac Watts Joys of Home Sir John Bowring John Anderson, My Jo ... . Bobert Burns Christmas Stockiugs . . . Benjamin F. Taylor LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. On the Doorstep . . Edmund Clarence Stedman 37 Tlie Departure Alfred Tennyson 3S First Love Lord Byron 38 No Time like the Old Time . . . Anonymous 39 Mary Morison Robert Burns 39 Early Love Samuel Daniel 40 C'herry-Ilipe Eichard Alison 40 How Do I I.ovo Thee Elizabeth Barrett Broioning 40 Wiiiuifreda Anonymous 41 Her Likeness . . . Dinah Maria diulock Crailc 41 Ae Fond Kiss before We Part . . Bobert Burns 41 My True Love Hath my Heart . Philip Sidney 42 Love's Philosophy . . . Percy Bysshe Shelley 42 Go(jd Bye Thomas Moore 42 How Many Times . . Thomas Lovell Beddoes 43 Absence Bobert Burns 43 Coming through the Il3-e . . . Bobert Burns 43 ComiiiMhrough the Hye . Adapted from Burns 43 Hark! Hark! the Lark . . Wm. Shakespeare 43 O Fairest of the Eural Maids Wm. Cullen Bryant 44 Koek Me to Sleep Elzi. A. Allen (Florence Percy) 44 Pack Clouds Away .... Thomas Heyioood 45 Linger not Long Anonymous 45 Song Gerald Griffin 4G Love's Young Dream .... Thomas Moore Love is Enough Ella Wheeler If Thou "VVert by My Side . . Bcginald Heber Pain of Love Henry Constable Bonnie Mary Bobert Burns Sweet Hand Anonymous Three Kisses . . . Elisabeth Barrett Brovming To an Absent Wife .... George D. Prentice The Flower o' Dumblane . . Bobert Tannahill Come into the Garden, Maud . Alfred Tennyson To Altbea, from Prison . . . Bichard Lovelace A Woman's Question . Adelaide Anne Proctor Doris Arthur J. Munby Sad are They Who Know not Love T. B. Aldrich Swallow, Flying South . . Alfred Tennyson She was a Phantom of Delight Wm. Wordsworth Margaret Walter Savage Landor The Milking Maid . Christina Georgina Bosetti Under the Blue Francis F. Brovme Kiss Me Softly John Godfrey Saxe Pearls Bichard Henry Stoddard A Bird at Sunset . . . Bobert Buhoer Lytton Serenade Oscar Wilde Bird of Passage Edgar Faiocett 1 Fear Thy Kisses . . . Percy Bysshe Shelley When the Kye Comes Hame . . James Hogg The Patriot's Bride . Sir Charles Gavan Duffy Janette's Hair . . . Charles Graham Halpine Wooing John B. L. Soule Sweet and Low^ Alfred Tennyson The Brookside B. Monckton 3Iilnes(LordHoughton) The Old Story Elizabeth A. Allen (Florence Percy) Evening Song Sidney Lanier A Parting Michael Drayton A Mother's Love Samuel Bogers I do Confess Thou'rt Sweet . Sir Bobert Ayton The Passionate Shepherd . Christopher Marlowe The Nymph's Reply . . . Sir Walter Baleigh Love is a Sickness Samuel Daniel Freedom in Dress Ben Jonson Phillis the Fair Nicholas Breton You and I W. H. Burleigh O, Saw Ye the Lass Bichard Byan We Parted in Silence .... Julia Craioford Come to Me, Dearest .... Joseph Brennan Absence William Shakespeare Why so Pale and Wan . , . Sir John Suckling Don't be Sorrowful, Darling . Bembrandt Peale Julia Bobert Herrick (iii) CONTENTS. PAGE. The Bloom was on the Alder , . . Don Piatt 66 The Gowan Glitters on the Sward Joanna Baillie 67 She Walks in Beautj' Lord Byron 68 Anxltaliens Bobert Bitlwer Lytton 68 The Welcome Thomas Davis 69 A Pastoral John Bijrom 70 Love at First Sight Jean Imjelow 71 A Spinning-Wheel Song . John Francis Waller 72 Philip My King . . Dinah Maria Unlock Craik 73 Afton Water Bobert Burns 74 The Lily-Fond . . . George Parsons Lathrop 75 Cupid and Campaspe John Lyly 76 The Day Eeturns, My Bosom Burns . B. Burns 76 GLIMPSES OF NATURE. A Forest Hymn . . Nature The Nightingale . . Hymn on the Seasons Night The Sea William Gullen Bryant . . . . Jones Very Taylor Coleridge James Thompson . . Lord Byron . . Lord Byron The Raiuhow William Wordsworth The Shepherd John Dyer The World is Too Much with Us W. Wordsworth Breathings of Spring . Felicia Dorothea Hemans Varying Impressions from Nature W. Wordsworth Evening William Wordsworth Hymn Before Sunrise . Samuel Taxjlor Coleridge To the Daisy William Wordsworth Dawn Bichard Watson Gilder Tlie Barn Owl Samuel Butler Before the Rain . . Thomas Bailey Aldrich After the Rain . . . Thomas Bailey Aldrich Night Edward Young Summer .... John Toionsend Trowbridge Day Breaking John 3farston To the Nightingale .... Bichard Barnfield The Mount of the Holy Cross . . Anonymous The Heath-Cock Joanna Baillie A Jime Day Ilowitt The Sky-Lark James Hogg To the Turtle-Dove D. Conway The Rainbow James Thomson To a Water-Fowl . . William Cullen By rant Violets Bobert Herrick The Wind-Flower Jones Very Christmas in the Woods . . . Harrison Weir The Eagle . . . . . Anna Letitia Barbauld A Ram Reflected in the Water . IF. Wordsioorth The Squirrel-Hunt .... William Browne Summer Woods John Glare On a Goldfinch William Cowper Changes in Nature Anonymous Morning Song Joanna Baillie The Squirrel William Coivper The Ivy Green Charles Dickens The Thrush's Nest John Clare 100 101 101 102 103 103 104 104 105 106 107 108 109 109 110 110 111 111 The Dying Stag Giles Fletcher Night Edward Everett To Seneca Lake .... James Gates Percival A Woodnote Howitt Lambs at Play Robert Bloomfleld The Hare William Somerville To a Sky-Lark .... Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Wild Deer John Wilson {Christopher North) The Heath Charlotte Smith The Swallow Charlotte Smi h The Sierras Joaquin 3Iiller Snow-Flakes . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Dog and the Water-Lily . William Cowper Planting the Apple-Tree William Cullen Bryant The Daisy James Montgomery The Robin Harrison Weir Spring and Winter . . William Shakespeare March William Cullen Bryant To a Young Ass . . Samuel Taylor Coleridge The First Day of Spring . William G. Sionms Day is Dying . Mrs. Lewes Cross ( George Eliot) Song of the Brook .... Alfred Tennyson Hail, Holy Light John Milton Spring Thomas Gray A Winter Morning .... William Coioper Wintry Weather David Gray May-Day . . . John Wolcott {Peter Pindar} The Early Primrose . . Henry Kirke White Loves of the Plants . . . Erasmus Darwin The Angler Anonymous To a Nightingale . . . William Drummond The Tiger William Blake The Eagle Alfred Tennyson A Summer Morn James Beattie Sunset at Norham Castle . Sir Walter Scott To the Dandelion . . . James Bussell Lowell Hymn to the Flowers . . . Horace Smith Solace in Nature . . . William Wordsworth June James Bussell Lowell To a Mountain Daisy .... Bobert Burns The Angler's Wish ..... haak Walton The Broom Mary Howitt Ode to Leven Water . Tobias George Smollet A Spring Day Bobert Bloomfleld The Little Beach-Bird . Bichard Henry Dana The Aged Oak at Oakley . . . Henry Alford The Pheasant Anonymous The Thrush Anonymous Snow BalphLIoyt The O'Lincoln Family . . . Wilson Flagg Solitude of the Sea Lord Byron Summer Drought J.P. L-vine The Rhine Lord Byron To a Mountain Oak . . George Henry Boker Forest Pictures . . . Paul Hamilton Hayne Flowers John Milton Under the Leaves .... Albert Laighton Winter William Cowper PAGE. 112 112 113 114 115 116 116 lis 119 120 121 121 122 123 124 129 130 131 131 132 133 134 135 136 136 137 137 137 138 131) 140 111 142 142 143 144 145 146 147 147 148 148 149 ]50 loO 150 151 151 152 153 154 155 156 158 158 CONTENTS. The Flower's Name Spiiug in Carolina PAGE. Bobert Browning 159 . . . Henry Timrod 159 The I.ark William Shakespeare 160 Grizzly Bret Harte 160 The Violet William Wetmore Story 161 Calm and Storm on Lake Lemau . Lord Byron 161 Freeaom of Nature .... James Thomson 161 Three Summer Studies . . James Ban-on Hope 162 Imaginative Sympathy with Nature Lord Byron 164 September George Arnold 165 Flowers Thomas Hood 166 Stars Lord Byron 166 Si^ns of Rain Dr. Edward Jenner 167 Daffodils William Wordsworth 168 Sonnet on the River Rhine . Wm. Lisle Bowles 169 To the Cuckoo John Logan 170 March William Morris 170 The Shaded Water . . William Gihnore Simms 171 November Hartley Coleridge 172 The Sea in Calm and Storm . George Crabbe 173 Midges Dance Aboon the Burn . B. Tannahill 175 Nature's Delights John Keats 175 Harvest Time .... Paul Hamilton Uayne 175 The Evening Wind . . William Cullen Bryant 176 Nature's jNfagniticence . . James Montgomery 177 Spring Alfred Tennyson 178 It Snows Mrs. S- J. Hale 179 Sunrise at Sea Epes Sargent 180 Invocation to Nature . Percy Bysshe Shelley 181 Table Mountain, Good Hope James Montgomery 181 The Poet's Solitude Lord Byron 182 COUNTRY LIFE. A Country Life Robert Herrick 183 A Wish Samuel Sogers 185 Town and Country .... William Cowper 186 The Homestead Phabe Gary 186 Sunday in the Fields . . . Ebenezer Elliot 188 Blossom-Time Mary E. Dodge 189 The Praise of a Solitary Life . Win. Drummond 190 The Old Mill . . . Bichard Henry Stoddard 190 Farming Edward Everett 191 Two Pictures Marion Douglass 192 The Ploughman . . . Oliver Wendell Holmes 192 Tlic Useful Plough Anonymous 193 Country Life Anonymous 195 Tlie City and the Country . . . Anonymous 195 The Haymakers George Lunt 195 The Song of the Mowers . . W. H. Burleigh 196 The Cornlield James Thomson 197 The Mowers William Allingham 198 AVhen the Cows Come Home . Mary E. Nealey 199 Come to the Sunset Tree . Felicia D. Hemans 200 My Little Brook .... Mary Bolles Branch 201 A Harvest Hymn W. D. Gallagher 202 The Old House . . Louise Chandler Moulton 202 Rural Nature William Barnes 203 The Farmer's Boy .... Robert Bloomjield Farmyard Song . . John Townsend Trowbridge Harvest Song Eliza Cook The Farmer's Wife . . Paul Hamilton Hayne The Pumpkin . . . John Greenleaf Whittier Robert of Lincoln . . William Cullen Bryant On the Banks of the Tennessee W. D. Gallagher Summer Longings . Denis Florence Mac Car thy Farm Life Anonymous Summer Woods . . William Henry Burleigh The Village Boy Clarke The Barefoot Boy . . John Greenleaf Whittier The Country Life . . Richard Henry Stoddard Happy tlie Man Whose Wish and Care Alex. Pope Contentment with Nature . . . James Beattie Nightfall : a Picture .... Alfred B. Street The House on the Hill . . . Eugene J. Hall FREEDOM AND PATRIOTISM. Our Own Country . . . James Montgomery The Star-Spangled Banner . Francis Scott Key Hail Columbia Joseph Hopkinson The American Flag . . Joseph Rodman Drake English National Anthem . . . Henry Carey Rule, Britannia James Thomson French National Anthem French of RogetDe Lisle Prussian National Anthem . From the German The German's Fatherland . From the German Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers . Mrs. Hemans Hallowed Ground .... Thomas Cam2}beU Harp of the North .... Sir Walter Scott Marco Bozzaris .... Fitz-Greene Halleck Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights A. Tennyson Freedom John Barbour Love of Liberty William Cowjoer The Source of Party Wisdom James A. Garfield A Curse on the Traitor . . . Thomas 3Ioore Downfall of Poland . . . Thomas Cam.pbell Green Fields of England . Arthur Hugh Clough Eternal Spirit of the Chainless Mind Lo7-d Byron Banuockburn Bobert Bxirns Our Country's Call . . William Cullen Bryant What Constitutes a State . Sir William Jones The Love of Country . . . Sir Walter Scott It's Hame, and It's Hame . Allan Cunningham CAMP AND BATTLE. The Battle of Alexandria The Ballad of Agincourt Ye Mariners of England . Waterloo The Unreturnine Biave , James Montgomery . Michael Drayton Thomas Campbell . . Lord. Byron . , Lord Byron The Charge of the Light Brigade . A. Tennyson Song of the Camp Bayard Taylor Hohenlinden Thomas Campbell Carmen Bellicosum . Guy Humphrey McMaster 206 207 208 209 210 210 211 212 212 214 215 215 217 218 221 222 222 223 223 223 224 224 225 226 227 227 228 228 229 229 230 230 230 230 231 231 232 232 233 234 235 237 237 238 238 CONTENTS. Monterey Charles Fenno Hoffman 239 Battle-Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 239 My Maryland James B. Eandall 239 The Countersign Anonymous 240 The Picket Guard Ethel Linn Beers 241 Bethel Augustine J. H. Duganne 241 Civil War Charles Dawson Shanly 242 " How are You, Sanitary" . . . Bret Harte 242 Kearney at Seven Pines . Edmund C. Stedman 243 The Old Sergeant .... Forceythe WiUson 244 Sheridan's Kide . . . Thomas Buchanan Bead 246 Stonewall Jackson's Way . . . J. W. Palmer 247 Barbara Frietchie . . John Greenleaf Wliittier 248 John Burns of Gettysburg .... Bret Harte 249 The Charge by the Ford . Thomas Dunn English 250 The Cavalry Charge . • . Francis A. Durivage 250 Cavaliy Song . . . Edmund Clarence Stedman 251 The C. S. Army's Commissary Ed. P. Thompson 252 Song of the Soldiers C. G. Halpine (Miles O'Beilly) 254 DESCRIPTION AND NARRATION. "Atlantic" Benjamin F. Taylor 255 The Wind in a Frolic .... William Howitt 256 In the Maine Woods . . Henry David Thoreau 258 A Life on the Ocean Wave . . . Epes Sargent 260 Skipper Ireson's Ride . John Greenleaf Wliittier 261 The Rustic Bridge William Cowper 262 Noon in Midsummer .... Louisa Bushnell 263 The Sea in Calm B. W. Proctor (Barry Cornwall) 264 Burial of Moses • . . Cecil Francis Alexander 264 Money Musk Benjamin F. Taylor 266 The Old Village Choir . . Benjamin F. Taylor 267 The Old Home .... Oliver Wendell Holmes 268 The Power of Habit J. B. Gough 268 The Village Blacksmith . . H. W. Longfellow 269 The Destruction of Sennacherib . Lord Byron 270 The New England School . Oliver W. Holmes 270 The Tempest James Thomas Fields 271 Evening Cloud John Wilson ( Christopher North) 271 The Stream of Life Beginald Heber 271 Lucy Gray William Wordsworth 272 The Snow-Storin . . Charles Gamage Eastman 273 Casablanca .... Felicia Dorothea Hemans 274 The Old Canoe Emily B. Page 274 A Greyport Legend Bret Harte 275 The Grape- Vine Swing . William Gilmore Simms 276 Moonlight on the Prairie . . H. W. Longfellow 276 We'll Go to Sea no More . . . Miss Corbett 277 The Wrecked Ship .... William Falconer 278 The Pilot John B. Gough 278 The Burning of Chicago . Benjamin F. Taylor 279 A Northern Winter . . . James Montgomery 281 The Children in the Wood . . . Anoriymous 282 The Massacre of Fort Dearborn . B. F. Taylor 283 The Shipwrecked Sailors . James Montgomery 284 Mu>ic in Camp John B. Thompson 285 The Death of Napoleon . . . Isaac McClellan 285 The Grave of Bonaparte .... Anonymous 286 The Overland Train Joaquin Miller 286 Robbing the Nest Alice Cary 287 The Famine . . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 288 The Bride Sir John Suckling 289 The Old Mill W. H. Venable 290 The Flood of Years . . William Cullen Bryant 291 The Old Water- Wheel .... John Buskin 292 Wreck of the Ship Jno. Wilson (Christopher North) 293 The Glove and the Lions .... Leigh Hunt 294 The Heron .... James Maurice Thompson 295 The Brides of Enderby .... Jean Ingelow 296 Croquet Amanda T. Jones 297 Lord Ullin's Daughter . . Thomas Campbell 298 Goody Blake and Harry Gill William Wordsworth 299 Moonlight Bobert Bloomfield 300 The River Wye .... William Wordsworth 301 Lochinvar's Ride Sir Walter Scott 301 The Closing "Sear .... George D. Prentice 302 The Closing Scene . Thomas Buchanan Bead 303 Abraham Lincoln Tom Taylor 304 PLACES AND PERSONS. Yarrow Unvisited . . . William Wordsworth 305 Yarrow Visited .... William Wordsworth 306 Yarrow Stream John Logan 307 Melrose Abbey Sir Walter Scott 308 Fair Greece ! Sad Relic of Departed Worth Byron 308 The Inchcape Rock .... Bobert Soutlipy 308 Cape Hatteras Josiah W. Holden 309 The Burial of Sir John Moore . Charles Wolfe 311 On Leaving the West . . . Margaret Fuller 312 The Knight's Tomb . Samuel Taylor Coleridge 313 Columbus Sir Aubrey DeVere 313 To Thomas Moore Lord Byron 314 To Victor Hugo Alfred Tennyson 314 Mazzini . Laura C. Be.dden (Howard Glyndon) 314 Byron Bobert Pollok 314 At the Tomb of Byron . . . . Joaquin 3filler 315 On the Porti-ait of Shakespeare . Ben Jonsun 315 The Lost Occasion . . John Greenleaf Wliittier 316 Nathaniel Hawthorne . . . H.W.Longfellow 316 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . F. F. Browne 317 Horace Greeley . . Edmund Clarence Stedman 317 Joseph Rodman Drake . F itz- Greene Halleck 318 Dii'ge for a Soldier . . . George Henry Boker 318 Vale Bichard Bealf 319 A Friend's Greeting .... Bayard Taylor 319 My Psalm John Greenleaf Wliittier 320 SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard T. Gray 321 Thanatopsis .... William Cullen Bryant 327 I Remember, I Remember . . Thomas Hood 328 Too Late I Stayed • . . William Bobert Spencer 329 Two Sonnets Ed. Porter Thompson 329 CONTENTS. My Life is Like the Summer Rose . B. H. Wilde Night • . . Jamex Montgomery Bieali, Break, Break .... Alfred Tennyson Reflections in Westminster Abbey Joseph Addison Btigle-Song Alfred Tennyson Those Evening Bells .... Thomas Moore Pictures of Memory Alice Cary The Divinity of Poetiy . Percy Bysshe Shelley The Lesson of the Water-Mill . Sarah Doudney A Hundred Years to Come . William G. Brown Ihe Two Weavers Hannah More Apple Blossoms Anonymous June William Cullen Bryant Evening Piayer at a Girl's School Mrs. Hemans What is Life Francis Quarles Calm is the Night . . Charles Godfrey Leland Song Gelia Thaxter May John Esten Cooke Pleasures of Memorj' .... Samuel Hogers A Joy Forever Johii Keats 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer . Thomas Moore The Isle of the Long Ago . . . B. F. Taylor Hope Tliomas Campbell To a Child John Jam.es Piatt Sonnet Paul Hamilton Hayne Life's Incongruities Egbert Phelps Equinoctial Mrs. A. D. T. Wliitney Circumstance Alfred Tennyson The Rose upon My Balcony . W. 31. Thackeray The Death of the Old Year . Alfred Tennyson Hope Joaquin 3Iiller Alas! How Light a Cause . . Thomas Moore The Library Bobert Southey Woodman, Spare that Tree . . G. P. Morris Small Beginnings Charles Mackay Song William Allingham The River John Hay Hope Bichard Alison Fidelity William Wordsworth Toward Home . . . Nathaniel Parker Willis Lines William B. Gallagher A Little Word in Kindness Spoken Colesworthy The Way to Sing . Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.) The First Tryst John James Piatt On a Distant Prospect of Eton College T. Gray Upon the Beach . . . Henry David Thoreau Satisfied Charlotte Fiske Bates Think of Me .... John Hamilton Beynolds Ashes of Roses Elaine Goodale Forever John Boyle CBeilly Bells of Shandon Francis Mahony (Father Prout) Hearts that Hunger Anonymous I Saw Two Clouds at Morning J. G. C. Brainard Self-Depeudence Matthew Arnold Days of My Youth . . . . ,S'i!. George Tucker Auld Lang Sj'ne Bobert Burns Lazy George Arnold 330 332 332 333 334 334 33.5 336 337 338 339 339 341 342 342 343 343 344 346 346 346 347 347 348 348 348 349 349 350 351 351 352 353 354 355 355 355 356 357 357 357 358 361 361 364 364 364 365 PAGE. We Have Been Friends Together C. E. S. Norton 365 A Name in the Sand . . . George n.. Prentice 366 On Visiting a Scene of Childhood . Anonymous 366 Mother, Home, Heaven . Wm. Goldsmith Brown 367 Give Me Back My Youth Again , Bayard Taylor 367 At Last Caroline Leslie 368 Waiting William Goldsmith Brown 368 The Book of Job Thomas Carlyle 368 Mortality William Knox 369 Oft in the Stilly Night .... Thomas Moore 369 The Light-House . . Sarah Hammond Palfrey 370 At Best John Boyle O'Beilly 370 By the Autumn Sea . . Paul Hamilton Hayne 371 Take Heart Edna Dean Proctor 371 Time Rolls His Ceaseless Course Sir Walter Scott 372 When Stars are in the Quiet Skies . E. B. Lytton ^T2, Dreamers Joaquin Miller 373 Answer to a Child's Question , S. T. Coleridge 373 Indirection Bichard Bealf 373 Alone by the Hearth .... George Arnold 374 Waiting by the Gate . . William Cullen Bryant 375 Glos'ter on His Deformity . Wm. Shakespeare 376 Sunbeams Egbert Phelps 376 The Vicissitudes of Life . William Shakespeare 376 Estrangement . . . Samuel Taylor Coleridge 377 Hamlet's Soliloquy . . . William Shakespeare 377 To-Day Thomas Carlyle 377 The Stream Arthur Hugh Clough .^7S GRIEF AND PATHOS. The Two Villages .... Bose Terry Cooke 379 The Blind Boy Colley Cibber 380 The Old Familiar Faces . . . Charles Lamb 380 Churchyard of the Village . . . John Wilson 381 My Heart and I . . Elizabeth Barrett Broioning 381 With the Dead .... Percy Bysshe Shelley 382 A Death-Bed James Aldrich 383 The Death of the Flowers . William C. Bryant 383 Sands of Dee Charles Kingsley 384 On My Mother's Picture . . William Cowper 385 The Bridge of Sighs .... Thomas Hood 385 Little Shoes and Stockings . . . Anonymous 386 When We Two Parted Lord Byron 386 Little Jim Anonymous 387 Lament of the Irish Emigrant . Lady Dufferin 388 The Old Sexton Park Benjamin 390 The Old Arm-Chair Eliza Cook 390 Man Was Made to Mourn . . . Bobert Burns 390 The Three Fishers .... Charles Kingsley 391 The Beggar Thomas Moss 392 The Voice of the Poor . Lady Wilde (Speranza) 392 Under the Dai-sies . . . Hattie Tyng Grisioold 393 Exile of Erin Thomas Campbell 393 When the Grass shall Cover Me Ina D. Coolbnth 394 Sleep Elizabeth Barret Browning 394 The Sonff of the Shirt .... Thomas Hood 394 vm CONTENTS. PAGE. The Conquered Banner . . . Ahram T. Byan 396 If May Biley Smith 396 Somebody's Darling . . . Marie B. Lacoste 397 Rosalie William C. Bicharcls 397 Two Mj'Steries Mary Mapes Bodge 398 Florence Vane . . . Fhilip Pendleton Cooke 398 A Mother's Heart Anonymous 398 The Dying Boy Anonymous 399 Angelns Song ....... Austin Bobson 399 Our Childhood George D. Prentice 400 The Lake of the Dismal Swamp . Tliomas Moore 400 Balow, My Babe, Ly Stil and Sleipe Anonymous 401 A Life . Bryan Waller Proctor (Barry Cornwall) 401 "Only a Year" .... Harriet Beecher Stowe 402 After the Ball Nora Perry 402 The Hour of Death . Felicia Dorothea Hemans 403 The Death-Bed Thomas Hood 403 Sad is Our Youth, for It is Ever Going A.De Vere 404 The Blind Boy Anonymous 404 In the Sea Hiram Bich 404 James Melville's Child Mrs. A. Stuart Menteath 405 To Mary in Heaven Bobert Burns 406 Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe 406 We are Seven William Wordsworth 406 Dirge Charles Gamage Eastman 407 Three Kisses Hattie Tyng Griswold 408 The Brave at Home . Thomas Buchanan Bead 408 Auld Robin Gray .... Lady Anne Barnard 409 My Love is Dead .... Thomas Chatterton 409 Old Times Anonymous 410 Old BalphHoyt 410 My Mother's Bible .... George P. Morris 412 Bingen on the Rhine Caroline Elizabeth S. Norton 41 3 The Last of Seven Avis Willmott 414 The Voiceless .... Oliver Wendell Holmes 414 Resignation . . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 414 The Bivouac of the Dead . . Theodore CHara 415 Our Soldiers' Graves Jones Very 416 Bereavement John Keble 417 Three Roses .... Thomas Bailey Aldrich 418 Highland Mary Bobert Burns 418 Requiescat Oscar Wilde 419 The Blind Man James Grahame 419 The Plague-Stricken City . Marie B Williams 420 Footsteps of Angels . . Henry W. Longfelloio 420 The Fate of Poets . . . William Wordsioorth 421 The Cradle Austin Dobson 421 Into the World and Out . . Sallie M. B. Piatt 421 The Reaper and the Flowers H. W. Longfellow 421 Last Words Henry AJford 422 Tears, Idle Tears Alfred Tennyson 423 Dead in November E. Hannaford 424 The Child's First Grief . . Felicia D. Hemans 424 Hannah Binding Slioes .... Lucy Larcom 425 The Cross .... Elizabeth (Bundle) Charles 425 The Little Mourner Henry Alford 426 Baby Bell Thomas Bailey Aldrich 427 Ben Bolt Thomas Dunn English 428 Decoration Day at Charleston . Henry Timrod 428 The Outcast Oliver Goldsmith 429 The Blue and the Gray . . Francis Miles Finch 430 THE NOBILITY OF LIFE. Clear the Way Charles Mackay 431 What is Noble Charles Swain 432 The Laborer William D. Gallagher 432 Tact and Talent Anonymous 433 Never Give Up Anomjmous 434 The Gentleman George W. Doane 434 Want of Decision Sydney Smith 435 For A' That, and A' That . . . Bobert Burns 435 Ode to Duty William Wordsworth 436 A Great Lawyer C. C. Bonney 436 Labor Frances Sargent Osgood 437 Advice to Young Men .... Noah Porter 437 A Psalm of Life . Henry Wadsworth Longfelloio 438 Trials a Test of Character William MorleyPunshon 438 Gradatim Josiah Gilbert Holland 43& How to Live Horatius Bonar 439 Press On Park Benjamin 440 A True Woman Bobert Dodsley 440 The Supremacy of Virtue . . . John Milton 441 Industry and Genius . . Henry Ward Beecher 441 The Light of Stars Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 442 A Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 442 My Mind to Me a Kingdom is Sir Edward Dyer 443 Success in Life Anonymous 443 Honorable Employment . . ■ John Webster 443 A Rhyme of Life . . Charles Warren Stoddard 444 Industry Benjamin Franklin 444 My Work Frances Bidley Havergal 444 THE BETTER LAND. Ode on Immortality . . William Wordsworth 445 The Discoverer . . Edmund Clarence Stedman 447 The Future Life ... William Cullen Bryant 448 There is No Death J. L. McCreery -448 "Blessed are They that Mourn" W. C. Bryant 449 The Mariner's Hymn . Caroline Botoles Southey 449 Abide with Us : for it is Evening . H. N. Powers 450 Shall we Meet Again . . . George D. Prentice 450 Home and Heaven Jones Very 451 Rest is Not Here . . . Lady Caroline Nairne 451 Peace Mary Clemmer Ames 451 Tiie Death of the Virtuous Anna Letitia Barbauld 452 I Shall be Satisfied Anonymous 452 The Mountains of Life . . . . J. G. Clark 452 Immortality Bichard Henry Dana 453 The Better Way Jean Ingelow 453 The Way, the Truth and the Life Theodore Parker 453 Rest Mary Woolsey Howland 454 CONTENTS. PAGE. Only Waiting . . . Frances Lmtghton Mace 454 Life Anna Letitia Barbauld 454 Tell Me, Ye AVinged Winds . Charles Mackay 455 The Dying Christian to bis Soul Alexander Pope 455 Dj'ing Hymn Alice Cary 455 Heaven Nancy Priest Wakefield 456 Heaven our Home . . . George D. Prentice 456 Up- Hill Christina G. Bosetti 456 In Haibor Paul Hamilton Hayne 457 Two Worlds . Mortimer Collins 457 ■When . . . Sarah Woolsey (Susan Coolidge) 458 Abide with Me .... Henry Francis Lyte 458 " I Too "... Constance Fenimore Woolson 459 No Sorrow There Daniel March 459 This World is all a Fleeting Show Thos. Moore 459 The Other AVorld . , Harriet Beecher Stowe 460 A Better World .... George D. Prentice 460 Ministry of Angels ... Edmund Spenser 460 " Father, Take My Hand " . . Henry N. Cobb 461 Ripe Grain Doi-a Bead Goodale 461 Nearer Home Phoebe Cary 461 Tlie Pillar of the Cloud . John Henry Newman 462 Hereafter Harriet Prescott Spofford 462 Tlie Eternal Rest .... Edmund Spenser 462 I Would Not Live Alvvay . Wm. A. Muhlenberg 463 Tlie Rest of the Soul . . . F. W Bobertson 463 The Eternal Home .... Edmund Waller 463 '•Follow Me" Abram T. Byan 464 All Before Anomjmous 464 The Divine Abode .... Philip Doddridge 464 Safe to the Land Henry Alford 465 Over the River . . . Nancy Priest Wakefield 465 Parted Friends .... James Montgomery 466 The Eternal Percy Bysshe Shelley 466 Beyond the Hills Horatius Bonar 466 MISCELLANEOUS. Down in the Harbor . . Elizabeth Akers Allen 467 The Jolly Old Pedagogue . . George Arnold 468 Here's to Them that are Gane Lady Caroline Nairne 469 The Toper's Apology .... Charles Morris 469 A Visit from St. Nicholas . Clement C. Moore 470 The Spacious Firmament on High Jos. Addison 471 Negro Revival Hymn . Joel Chandler Harris 472 The Old Shepherd's Dog J. Wolcott (Peter Pindar) 473 The Bi;lls Edgar Allan Poe 4:74: Auiit Silva Meets Young Mas'r Ed. P. Thompson 475 The Grave James Montgomery 476 The World Henry Vaughn 477 William Tell among the Mountains J. S. Knowles 478 My Heart "s in the Highlands . Bobert Burns 480 The Raven Edgar Allan Poe 480 There is Mist on the Mountain Sir Walter Scott 482 The Di-eam of Argyle . Elizabeth H Whittier 483 Childhood's Prayer .... Newton S. Otis 4S5 The Lady's "Yes" Elizabeth Barrett Browning 486 The Last Leaf .... Oliver Wendell Holmes 487 FAGB. The Noble Nature Ben Jonsnn 487 Of a Contented Mind . . Thomas, Lord Vatix 488 The Sea-Bird's Song John Gardiner C . Brainard 489 The Mariner's Dream . . . William Dimond 4!i0 Ring Out, Wild Bells . . . Alfred Tennyson 490 The Moneyless Man . . . Henry T. Stanton 491 O! May I Join the Choir Invisible George Eliot 491 The Modern Belle Anonymous 492 AuntTabitha .... Oliver Wendell Holmes 492 Providence . • Anonymous 493 Rh.vmes of the Months . . . .Clark JilUon 493 Beautiful Snow ..... James W. Watson 496 Every Year Albert Pike 496 The Winged Worshipers . . Charles Sprague 497 Night and Death . . . Joseph Blanco White 497 Fortitude Edward Young 498 Our Mother Tongue J. G. Lyons 499 The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls Moore 500 The Vagabonds . . John Townsend Trowbridge 500 Universal Prayer Alexander Pope 501 The College Regatta . Oliver Wendell Holmes 502 Evening Sir Walter Scott 502 Children's Thankfulness .... John Keble 503 Norval John Home 504 My Creed Theodore Tilton 504 O Sweet Wild Roses . Bichard Watson Gilder 504 To a Bereaved Mother . . John Quincy Adams 505 The Pauper's Drive John Noel 505 Light Francis W. Bourdillon 505 Maud Muller .... John Greenleaf Whittier 506 Death the Leveler James Shirley 508 Cato's Soliloquy on Immortality Joseph Addison 508 I'm Growing Old .... John Godfrey Saxe 508 The Soldier's Dream . . . Thomas Campbell 509 Abou Ben Adhem Leigh Hunt 509 To My Mother .... Arthur Henry Hallam 509 Atheist and Acorn Anne, Countess of Winchelsea 510 Buena Vista Albert Pike 511 Even-'Fide Mrs. J. M. Winton 512 Blindness John Milton 514 The Plaidie Charles Sibley 514 Vertue . George Herbert 514 The Daisy Geoffrey Chaucer 514 Places of Worship . . . William Wordsioorth 515 The Beacon-Light Julia Pardoe 515 God's-Acre . . Henry Wadsworth Longfelhno 516 Daniel Gray .... Josiah Gilbert Holland 517 "I Hold Still" From the German 517 The Battle of Blenheim . . . Bobert Southey 518 Jenny Kissed Me Leigh Hunt 518 A-Hunting We Will Go . . . Henry Fielding 519 How's My Boy Sydney Dubell 519 The Hills Were Made for Freedom W. G. Brown 520 A Christmas Hymn Alfred Domett 521 Look Aloft .... Jonathan Lawrence, Jr. 521 Faith Frances Artne Kemble 521 Counsel to a Friend . . William Shakespeare 522 Books Bobert Leighton 522 =^p^ PAGE. The Cotter's Saturday Night 17 " Tls when a youthful, loving, modest pah-, \ ,g In otlier's arms hreathe out the tender tale '■ j ' ' ' " They round the ingle form a circle wide " 19 " The priest-like father reads the sacred page " ... 20 " The parent pair their secret homage pay " 21 " The raven's clamorous nest " 22 A Country Home 23 ■' I am seven times one to-day " 24 ' I leaned out of window, I smelt the white clover " . . 25 ' Let me hleed ! Oh, let me alone " , 26 The Old Oaken Bucket 28 '' One 'mid the forests of the West, ) 09 By a dark stream is laid " ! Boy and Lamh 33 Joys of Home 35 Christmas Stockings 36 ' The little hand outside her muff— j ,_ To keep it warm I had to hold it " S ' There is a garden in her face" 40 " That flutt'ring sail ) ., Is spread to waft me far from thee " i ' Rock me to sleep, mother" 44 ' Thy towers . Bombay, gleam bright, they say, ) ._ Across the dark blue sea" i ' ' ' ' Sweet hand, that, held in mine" 48 ' Stone walls do not a prison make, ) „ Nor iron bars a cage " ( ^'■ The Milking Maid 54 ' Silver sails all out of the west, \ Under the silver moon " ( ^■' ' Watch o'er his slumbers like the brooding dove" . . 61 ' Wo sat in the hush of summer eves " 63 ' I saw her pace, with quiet grace, \ -„ The shaded path along " \ °" ' For ne'er was poor shepherd so sadly forlorn" ... 70 Close by the window young Eileen is spinning"- . . 72 ' Lay on my neck thy tiny hand " 73 How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills "... 74 The Lily-Pond 75 The groves were God's first temples " 77 (X) PAGE. " A grove of large extent, hard by a castle huge " . . 79 Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter 80 "Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm" . . 80 " By brooks and groves, in hollow whispering gales " . 81 " Thy bounty shines in Autumn unconfined" .... 81 " With clouds and storms \ „„ Around thee thrown, tempest o'er tempest rolled " J • "^ " Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound" .... 82 " Since God is ever present, ever felt" 83 " Dark-heaving, boundless, endless and sublime " . . 84 Pawn among Roses . go The Shepherd gg " Sweet voices in the -woods, ) And reed-like echoes, that have long been mute " i • °' " Amidst the hollows of the rocks their fall ) Makes melody" j • .88 " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free " 89 " On thy bald, awful head, Oso-vian Blanc!" 90 The Barn Owl 92 Before the Rain 93 After the Rain 94 " I seek tlie coolest sheltered seat " 95 " Quickly before nie runs the quail " 96 Mount of the Holy Cross " 97 The Ileath-Coek 99 " Upon that heath, in birchen bower " 100 The Turtle-Dove loi The Rainbow 102 The Waterfowl 103 " Prom under the boughs in the snow-clad wood ( ,„, The merle and the mavis are peeping " j . . lui " The tawny eagle seats his callow brood" 105 Ram Reflected in the Water 106 The Squirrel-Hunt 107 Summer Woods 108 The Goldfinch 109 The Squirrel UQ The Thrush's Nest - Ill The Dying Stag 112 ILLUSTKATIONS PAGE. The Swan 113 The Pheasant Hi The Blackbii-a H* Lambs iit Phiy 115 The Hare llt> The Wild Deer 118 The Heath-Chats 119 The Swallow 120 Snow-Flakcs 121 The Dog and the Water-Lily 122 ' Boughs where the tlirush with crimson breast I ■.„, shall haunt, and sing, and hide her nest " ! " ' ' Shall think ot childhood's careless day " 124 ' In every season fresh and fair " 125 ' Though the snow Is falling fast, ) -j.jfi Specking o'er his coat with white " S ' And birds sit brooding in the snow " 127 March 128 ' Poor little foal ot an oppressed race " . 129 The First Day of Spring 130 ' I move the sweet forget-me-nots ) ,3, That grow for happy lovers " ] ' I chatter over stony ways " 132 ' Still is the toiling hand of care; ) ,„„ The panting herds repose " j A Winter Morning 134 ' The sparrows peep, and quit the sheltering eaves " . 135 Initial — Wintry Weather 135 May-Day 136 The Nightingale 137 The Tiger 138 The Eagle 139 A Summer Moi'n 140 ' Cheviot's mountains lone " 141 ' As in solitude and shade I wander ) , ,„ Through tbe green aisles " ] ' Now is the high-tide of the year" 144 ' lin these flowery medes would be " 146 ' Loiter long days near Shawford Brook " 146 Lcven Water 147 Tlie Sheep Pasture 148 The Aged Oak ^ . 149 AVoods in Winter 150 Solitude of the Sea 151 ' A pillage for the birds " 152 ' The castled crag of Drachenf els I ,=0 Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine " i • • • • -i^a The Mountain Oak 154 ' O blissful valley, nestling cool and fair " 155 ' The squirrel — that quaint, sylvan harlequin " ... 156 ' Oft have I walked these woodland paths" 157 Winter 158 ' Grizzly " 160 ' The noisy swallows twitter 'neath the eaves "... 162 ' The panting cattle in the river stand" 163 ' On the bosom of the still lagoon" 164 September 165 Flowers '. ... 166 I'AGE. " The hollow winds begin to blow " 107 " Our jaunt must bo put off to-morrow " 168 The Uivcr Rhine 169 March 170 The Shaded Water 171 " The gaunt woods, in ragged, scant array " 172 " Ships in the calm seem anchored" 173 " The petrel, in the troubled way, I ,^0 Swims with her brood, or flutters in the spray " S • * " Their passage tribes of sea-gulls urge" 174 " Roughening their crests " 176 Giraffes 177 The Nile 178 " It Snows " 179 Sunrise at Sea 180 Table Mountain, Cape of Good Hope 181 " To climb the trackless mountains all unseen, ) ,„„ With the wild flock that never needs a fold " j • • ^'^'^ " When now the cock, the ploughman's horn, ) ,„„ Calls for the lily-wristed morn " j ... 10a Sheep at Pasture 184 " Around my ivied porch shall spring 1 .„ Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew " j • • • -loa The Homestead 186 " His head in manhood's prime, ) ,^ Is growing white as the winter's rime " ) ^°' Sunday in the Fields 188 Blossom-Time 189 " By some shady grove, far from the clamorous world" 190 The Ploughman 192 " To walk in tlie air, liow pleasant and fair " 193 Country Life 194 " Down on the Merrimac River " 196 The Cornfield 197 The Mowers 198 When tlie Cows come Home 199 " Come to the sunset-tree " 200 " I sit here by the stream in full content" 201 The Old House 202 Rural Nature 203 " For pigs, and ducks, and turkeys throng tlie door " . 204 " Homeward, his daily labors done, ) oofi The stalwart farmer slowly plods" ! Robert of Lincoln 208 " An old log cabin I think of, I „„„ On the banks of the Tennessee " i ^"^ Summer Woods 211 The Village Boy 212 The Barefoot Boy 213 " The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields" . . . . 215 " White Dobbin through the stable doors ) „■,(. Shows his round shape" \ The House on the Hill 218 " The cold, cheerless woods we delighted to tramp " . 219 Tail-Piece 220 Death of Abercrombie 233 Kearney at Seven Pines 243 Stonewall Jackson's Way 247 ' The bayonet shall be our spit" 252 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE. ' We'll take, content, the roasting ear " 253 ' Bro tilers of the heart are we " 254 Loss of the "Atlantic " 255 The Wind in a Frolic 257 111 the Maine Woods 258 A Mountain Lake 259 Denizens of the Forest 259 The Rustic Bridge 262 Noon in Midsummer 263 The Sea in Calm 264 " The hald old eagle j „„c OngrayBeth-peor'slieight" \ ^°° The Old Village Choir 267 Tlie Old Home 268 The New England School 270 The Lake at Sunset 271 ' The fence was lost, and the wall of stone ) „,„ The windows blocked, and the well-curb gone" i ■ • """* ' The man in his sleigh, and his faithful dog, ( ,-„ And his beautiful Morgan brown " ( •••-''■> ' They ran through the streets of the seaport town " . 275 ' O blithely shines the bonny sun ) „»» Upon the Isle of May " i ^" The Burning of Chicago 280 A Northern Winter 281 The Shipwrecked Sailors 284 Robbing the Nest 287 The Old Mill 290 ' Up mounts the glorious sun" 293 ' Her sails are draggled in the brine ) oqi That gladdened late the skies " ( The Heron 295 ' Glad if the full-orbed moon salute his eyes" .... 300 The River Wye 301 The swan, on still Saint Mary's lake ) „„c; Float double, swan and shadow" ( ' Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth " 308 The Inchcape Rock 309 " That lone hulk stands I oiq Embedded in thy yellow sands" ) ' Farewell, ye soft and sumptuour solitudes " .... 312 Columbus 313 The Country Churchyard 321 ' The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea" .... 322 ' Drowsy tinklings lull the distant fold" 322 Children run to lisp their sire's return" 323 ' Of t did the harvest to their sickle yield " 323 ' How jocund did they drive their team afield" ... 324 ' Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast " 324 ■ Wade through slaughter to a throne " 325 ' Muttering his wayward fancies would he rove "... 326 Approach and read —for thou canst read — the lay " . 326 ' I remember, I remember ) „„„ The house where I was born " i ' Too late I stayed — forgive the crime" 329 ' Night Is the time for toil, ( „„„ Toplough the classic Held" ( ^^^ ' Night is the time to watch ) „,, O'er ocean's dark expanse " ( PAGE. " Break, break, break, j „„, On thy cold, gray stones, O Sea ! " i '*■'-' " The splendor falls on castle walls" 333 " Gnarled oaks olden, dark with the mistletoe" ... 334 " Free as the winds that blow" 335 " From the fields the reapers sing " 336 TheWater-Mill 337 The Two Weavers 338 " Betrothed lovers walk in sight ; o> j • • • *43 " Down in the harbor the ships lie moored " 467 The Jolly Old Pedagogue 468 The Toper 470 " The moon takes up the wondrous tale " 471 The Negro Revival 472 The Old Shepherd's Dog 473 " Out befo' de cabins all de darkies sat " 475 Tlie Grave 476 " On thy dear lap these limbs reclined, j ,_„ Shuil gently molder into thee " I ' The Miser 478 William Tell among the Mountains 479 " Farewell to the mountains, higli covered with snow " 480 " Rough Keppoch, give breath to thy bugle's bold swell " 483 " Down the glen, beyond the castle, I ,„. Where the Linn's swift waters shine " *°* ' Now I lay me down to sleep " iia ' Yes, I answered vou last night; ( . ,„,. No, this morning, sir, I say" j ■*'*'• ' The old threo-coriuned hat, j .„_ And the breeches and all that " i ' Old Oak 487 ' The sweetest time o( all my life, j -o^ To deem in thinking spent " j TheSea-Bird 489 The Jlodern BcUo 492 Aunt Tabitha • 492 ' Gives one a kiss, another an embrace" 493 The Seasons 493 ' The earth is set with many a gem " 494 ' Polished scythe and siclood, To grace the lad, her well-hained kebbuek fell, An' aft he's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid; The frugal \\dfie, garrulous, will tell How 't was a towmond auld, sin' lint was i' tJie bell. HOME AND FIRESIDE. 21 The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, Thej', rouiid the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire tin-ns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride : His bonnet reverent!}' is laid aside, His tyart haffets wearing thin an' bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glid(>. He wales a portion ^\hh judicious care; And "Let us worship God!" he says, with solemn Or noble "Elgin " beets the heavenward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays : Compared with these, Italian trills are tame; The tii'kled ears no heartfelt raptures raise; Xae unison hae they with our Creator's praise. The priest-like father i-eads the sacred page, llow Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Jloses bade eternal warfare wagG AVith Amalek's ungracious progeny; "The parent pair their secret homage pay." They chant their artless notes in simple guise ; Thej' tune their hearts, bj' far the noblest aim: Perhaps "Dundee's" wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive "Martyis," worthy of the name; Or how the royal Bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre. THE ROYAL GALLERY. Perhaps the Christian vohime is the theme, How guiltless blood for giiiltj'' niaii wiis shed ; How He, who bore iu Heaven the second nanx-. Had not on earth whereon to la}'' His head ; How His first followers and servants sped ; The precepts sage they wrote to manj' a land : How He, who lone in Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. There ever bask in uncreated rays. No more to sigh, or shed the hitter tear, Together hjMnning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's inide, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every gi-ace, except the heart! Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the husband, and the father prays : Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days : The Power, incensed, the pageant will desert, The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole ; But haply, in some cottage far apart. May hear, well pleased, the language of the soul; And in His book of life the inmates poor enroll. H HOME AND FIRESIDE. 23 Then homeward all take off their several way ; The youngling cottagers retire to rest : The parent-pair their secret homage pay, And proffer np to Heaven the warm request, That He, who stills the raven's clamorous nest, And decks the lilj' fair, in llowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best. For them and for their little ones provide; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs. That make her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings; " An honest man 's the noblest work of God : " And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road, Tlie cottage leaves the palace far behind ; Wliat is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wTctch of human kind. Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent! Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! And, O, may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets bo rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved isle. O Thou ! who poured the patriotic tide That streamed through Wallace's imdaunted heart; Who dared to nobly stem tj'rauuic pride. Or nobly die, the second glorious part, (The patriot's God, peculiarly Thou art, His friend, iuspirer, guardian, and reward! O never, never Scotia's reahn desert; But still the patriot, and the pati-iot-bard. In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard ! Egbert Bukns. MAKE HOME-LIFE BEAUTIFUL. I^ET me say to parents: Make the home-life beautiful, without and within, and ^^ they will sow the seeds of gentleness, true kindness, honesty and fidelity, "Y" in the hearts of their children, fi'om which the children reap a harvest of happiness and virtue. The memory of the beautiful and happy home of childhood is the richest legacy any man can leave to his children. The heai't will never forget its hallowed influences. It will be an evening enjoyment, to which the lapse of years wiU only add new sweetness. Such a home is a constant inspiration for good, and as constant a restraint from evil. If by taste and culture we adorn our homes and grounds and add to their charms, our children will find the quiet pleasures of rural homes more attractive than the whirl of city life. Such attractions and enjoyments will invest home-life, school-life, the whole future of life with new interests and with new dignity and joyousness, for life is just what we make it. We may by our blindness live in a world of darkness and gloom, or in a world full of sunlight and beauty and joy ; for the world Avithout only reflects the world within. Also, the tasteful improvement of grounds and home exerts a good influence not only upon the inmates, but upon the community. An elegant dwelhng, surrounded by sylvan attractions, is a contribution to the refinement, the good order, the taste and prosperity of every community, improving the public taste and ministering to every enjoyment. B. G. NORTHRUP. A Country Home. 24 THE ROYAL GALLEEY. SONGS OF SEVEN. , SEVEN TIMES ONE.— EXULTATION. m mpHERE'S no dew left on the daisies and clover, ^1^ There's no rain left in heaven. '!ff ■'■'^^ ^^^^ ™y^ "seven times" over and over — ^Tr Seven times one are seven. I am old — so old I can wi-ite a letter; My birthday lessons are done. The lanahs play always — they l