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His household gods were broken. He had no HYPERION.

home.

Yet oft I dream, that once a wife

Close in my heart was locked,
And in the sweet repose of life

A blessed child I rocked.

And when I see that lock of gold,
Pale grows the evening-red;
And when the dark lock I behold

I wish that I were dead.

THE TWO LOCKS OF HAIR, Translated from the German of Pfizer.

What else remains for me?

Youth, hope, and love:

To build a new life on a ruined life.

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THE MASQUE OF PANDOra.

JULY 30.

This journey is written in my memory with a sunbeam. We were a company whom chance had thrown together, - different in ages, humors, and pursuits, and yet so merrily the days went by, in sunshine, wind, or rain, that methinks some lucky star must have ruled the hour that brought us five so auspiciously together. OUTRE-MER.

Never from my heart has faded quite

Its memory, that, like a summer sunset,

Encircles with a ring of purple light

All the horizon of my youth. THE GOLDEN LEgend.

Hiram Powers, 1805; G. Pfizer, 1809.

JULY 30.

Samuel Rogers, 1763.

The same object, seen from three different points of view, the Past, the Present, and the Future,often exhibits three different faces to us; like those sign-boards over shop-doors, which represent the face of a lion as we approach, of a man when we are in front, and of an ass when we have passed. KAVANAGH.

Go to the damsel Priscilla, the loveliest maiden of Plymouth,

Say that a blunt old Captain, a man not of words but of actions,

Offers his hand and his heart, the hand and heart of a soldier.

'T was but a dream, let it pass,

like so many others!

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What I thought was a flower, is only a weed, and

is worthless!

THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH.

WOODSTOCK PARK.

HERE in a little rustic hermitage

Alfred the Saxon King, Alfred the Great,
Postponed the cares of king-craft to translate
The Consolations of the Roman sage.
Here Geoffrey Chaucer, in his ripe old age
Wrote the unrivalled Tales, which soon or late
The venturous hand that strives to imitate
Vanquished must fall on the unfinished page.
Two kings were they, who ruled by right divine,
And both supreme; one in the realm of Truth,
One in the realm of Fiction and of Song.
What prince hereditary of their line,

Uprising in the strength and flush of youth,
Their glory shall inherit and prolong?

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