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HENRY ABBEY.

THE CALIPH'S MAGNANIMITY.

A TRAVELLER across the desert waste

Found on his way a cool, palmshaded spring,

And the fresh water seemed to his pleased taste,

In the known world, the most delicious thing.

"Great is the caliph!" said he; "I

for him

Will fill my leathern bottle to the brim."

He sank the bottle, forcing it to drink Until the gurgle ceased in its lank throat;

And as he started onward, smiled to think

That he for thirst bore God's sole antidote.

Days after, with obeisance low and meet,

He laid his present at the caliph's feet.

Forthwith the issue of the spring was poured

Into a cup, on whose embossed outside,

Jewels, like solid water, shaped a gourd.

The caliph drank, and seemed well satisfied,

Nay, wisely pleased, and straightway gave command

To line with gold the man's workhardened hand.

The courtiers, looking at the round reward,

Fancied that some unheard-of virtue graced

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"Would that the bloom of youth which is so brief,

The bloom, the May, the fullness ripe and fair

Ligh over all, like some divine de- Of cheek and limb, might fade not

sire

Above our lower thoughts of daily care,

The gray, religious, heaven-touching spire

Adds to the quiet of the spring

time air;

And over roofs the birds create a sea, That has no shore, of their May melody.

Down through the lowlands now of lightest green,

The undecided creek winds on its

way.

as the leaf;

Would that the heart might not grow old with care,

Nor love turn bitter, nor fond hope decay;

But soul and body lead a life of May!"

FACIEBAT.

There the lithe willow bends with As thoughts possess the fashion of

graceful mien,

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O LIBERTY, thou goddess heavenly bright,

Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!

Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,

And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train;

Eased of her load, subjection grows more light,

And poverty looks cheerful in thy sight;

Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay,

Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.

Thee, goddess, thee, Britannia's isle adores; How has she oft exhausted all her stores,

How oft in fields of death thy presence sought,

Nor thinks the mighty prize too dearly bought!

On foreign mountains may the sun refine

The grape's soft juice, and mellow it to wine;

With citron groves adorn a distant soil,

And the fat olive swell with floods of oil:

We envy not the warmer clime, that lies

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