I knew, I knew it could not last- I've seen my fondest hopes decay; To glad me with its soft black eye, FROM "THE LIGHT OF THE HAREM." ALAS! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain has tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships, that have gone down at sea, A word unkind or wrongly taken— As though its waters ne'er could sever, Breaks into floods that part for ever. Oh you that have the charge of Love, Keep him in rosy bondage bound, As in the Fields of Bliss above He sits, with flow'rets fetter'd round: Loose not a tie that round him clings, Is found beneath far Eastern skies,-- THE BIRD LET LOOSE. THE bird, let loose in Eastern skies, But high she shoots through air and light, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, So grant me, God, from every care OH, THOU! WHO DRY'ST THE MOURNER'S TEAR. Он, Thou, who dry'st the mourner's tear, If, when deceived and wounded here, The friends, who in our sunshine live, But Thou wilt heal that broken heart, When joy no longer soothes or cheers, A moment's sparkle o'er our tears, Oh, who would bear life's stormy doom, Come, brightly wafting through the gloom Then sorrow, touch'd by Thee, grows bright As darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day! DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY. DEAR Harp of my country! in darkness I found thee, Have throbb'd at our lay, 'tis thy glory alone; Ebenezer Elliot. Born 1781. Died 1849. THE CORN-LAW RHYMER, as he is generally called, was born at Masborough in Yorkshire, on 7th March 1781. He appeared first as a poet in 1823; and when the Corn-Law agitation commenced, he lent the full vigour of his pen to further it. His Corn-Law rhymes had a great influence among his own class; but they are poor productions, and would never have entitled him to be ranked as a poet. Some of his other pieces show higher poetical powers. He died in 1849. When Thou comest, earth and ocean, Shade and brightness, rest and motion, Help the Poor Man's heart to pray. Sun-waked Forest, Bird that soarest O'er the mute empurpled moor, Little River, Young for ever! Cloud gold-bright with thankful glee, Sabbath holy! For the lowly Paint with flowers thy glittering sod: Tyrants curse ye While they nurse ye, Life for deadliest wrongs to pay; Still art Thou "The Poor Man's day." Sabbath's Father, Would'st Thou rather Some should curse than all be blest, With its healing, With his humble trustful bliss ; With the Poor Man's honest kindness, Bless the rich man's heart of blindness, Teach him what religion is! Jane Taylor. JANE TAYLOR was born in London, in 1783. Born 1783. Her father became after wards a dissenting minister at Colchester, where he educated his family. In conjunction with her sister Anne, she wrote and published a collection of children's hymns and rhymes, which have been universally admired. Jane is also the author of "Display," a prose work. She died in 1823. CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST. Lo at noon 'tis sudden night, Nail'd upon the cross, behold, How His tender limbs are torn; For a royal crown of gold They have made him one of thorn: Cruel hands, that dare to bind Thorns upon a brow so kind! See the blood is falling fast, From his forehead and his side; He who was King above Left his kingdom for a grave, Out of pity-out of love, That the guilty He might save. Reginald Heber. Born 1783. Died 1826. REGINALD HEBER, D.D., Bishop of Calcutta, was born on 21st April 1783, at Malpas in Cheshire, a living held by his father. He entered at Brasenose College at the age of seventeen, and, in his twentieth year, his poem "Palestine" gained the prize for English poetical composition. The |