Ne'er shall the sun arise "Still grew my bosom then, O, death was grateful! "Thus, seamed with many scars, Skoal to the Northland! skoal!" THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. Ir was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little «O father! I hear the sound of guns, daughter, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South. Then up and spake an old Sailor, Had sailed to the Spanish Main, "I pray thee, put into yonder port, For I fear a hurricane. "Last night, the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see !" The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he. Colder and louder blew the wind, O say, what may it be?" "Some ship in distress, that cannot live In such an angry sea!" And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho ho the breakers roared! At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, And he saw her hair, like the brown seaweed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL. FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND. OF Edenhall, the youthful Lord The butler hears the words with pain, Then said the Lord: "This glass to praise, Fill with red wine from Portugal!" The graybeard with trembling hand obeys; A purple light shines over all, Then speaks the Lord, and waves it light. ""T was right a goblet the Fate should be First rings it deep, and full, and mild, The glorious Luck of Edenhall. "For its keeper takes a race of might, The fragile goblet of crystal tall; It has lasted longer than is right; Kling! klang! with a harder blow than all - Will I try the Luck of Edenhall !" As the goblet ringing flies apart, The guests in dust are scattered all, In storms the foe, with fire and sword; He in the night had scaled the wall, Slain by the sword lies the youthful Lord, But holds in his hand the crystal tall, The shattered Luck of Edenhall. On the morrow the butler gropes alone, "The stone wall," saith he, "doth fall aside, Down must the stately columns fall; Glass is this earth's Luck and Pride; In atoms shall fall this earthly ball One day like the Luck of Edenhall !" PENTECOST, day of rejoicing, had come. The church of the village Gleaming stood in the morning's sheen. On the spire of the belfry, (There full a hundred years had it stood,) was embellished with blossoms |