3. "He is as wise as brave was ever tale With such a gallant modesty rehears'd? My brave deliv'rer!"

4. “Your name, fair gentlewoman?"

5. "O sacred fire, that burnest mightily. In living brests, y kindled first above, Amongst th' eternal spheres and lamping sky,

And thence pour'd into men.”

6. "Urge him not, father; if the sacrifice. Of such a wasted woe-worn wretch as I am, Can save him from the abyss of misery, Upon whose verge he's tottering, let me wander,

An unacknowledged outcast from his

castle,

Even to the humble cottage I was born

in."

F. S.

99.

The Echo of a Thousand Tongues.

1. " dire sister of the slaught'ring

I.

2.

power,

Small at her birth, but rising every hour,
While scarce the skies her horrid head

can bound,

She stalks the earth, and shakes the
world around."

"Still we strove,

Expecting aid; nor longer force to force,
Valour to valour, in the fight opposed,
But to the exasperate patience of the foe
Desperate endurance.
Though with

Christian zeal,

would have pour'd the balm of peace

Into our wounds."

3. "Bring orchis, bring the foxglove spire, The little speedwell's darling blue,

4.

5.

Deep tulip, dash'd with fiery dew,
-, dropping wells of fire."

"None knew

To what part of the earth they had been toss'd

So changeable had been the winds that blew ;
Some thought it was Mount Etna, some
the highlands

Of Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, or other
islands."

"I have seen

The dumb men throng to see him, and
the blind

To hear him speak: the nobles bended
As to Jove's statue; and the commons made
A shower and thunder, with their caps
and shouts :

I never saw the like."

IOO.

This fight did last from break of day
Till setting of the sun,

For when they rung the evening-bell
The battle scarce was done.

4.

"Sometimes deck'd

In costly raiment, as a maid

That kings might for a throne select."

5. "Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, My hearts!

!"

F.S.

101.

"Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you, 'tis true; Yet, wildlings of nature, I doat upon you."

T. "“Her thin and misty form

Moved with the moving air;
And the clear silver tones,
As thus she spoke, were such

As are unheard by all but gifted ear."