Hail, chaste queen! for ever hail!
And, prithee, look not quite so pale!

Yet stay-perhaps thou'st travellid far,

Exulting in thy conscious light;
Till, as I fear, some youthful star,

Hath spread his charms before thy sight:
And when he found his arts prevail
He left thee, sickening, faint, and pale.

Miss Scott, of Ancram.

TO THE OWL.
WAILE the Moon, with sudden gleam,

Through the clouds that cover her,
Darts her light upon the stream,
And the poplars gently stir,

Pleas'd I hear thy boding cry!
Owl, that loy'st the cloudy sky,

Sure, thy notes are harmony!
While the maiden, pale with care,

Wanders to the lonely shade,
Sighs her sorrows to the air,
While the flowerets round her fade,

Shrinks to hear thy boding cry,
Owl, that lov'st the cloudy sky,

To her it is not harmony !
While the wretch, with mournful dole,

Wrings his hands in agony,
Praying for his brother's soul,
Whom he pierced suddenly,-

NIE

TO WINTER.
When first the fiery-mantled Sun
His heavenly race began to run,
Round the earth and ocean blue,
His children four (the Seasons) flew :
First in green apparel dancing,

Smiled the Spring with angel face;
Rosy Summer next advancing,

Rushed into her sire's embrace-
Her bright-hair'd sire, who bade her keep

For ever nearest to his smiles-
On Calpe's olive shaded steep,

Or India's citron-cover'd isles, More remote and buxom brown

The queen of vintage bow'd before his throne ; A rich pomegranate gemm'd her crown,

A ripe sheaf bound her zone.

But howling Winter fled afar
To hills that prop the polar star,
And loves on deer-borne car to ride,
With barren Darkness by his side,
Round the shore where loud Lofoden

Whirls to death the roaring whale,
Round the polc where Runic Oden

Howls his war-song to the gale:

Save when down the ravag'd globe

He travels on his native storm; Deflowering Nature's grassy robe,

And trampling on her faded form; Till night's returning lord assume

The shaft that drives him to the northern field, Of power to pierce his raven plume, And crystal-coyer'd shield.

O sire of storms! whose savage ear
The Lapland drum delights to hear,
When Phrenzy, with her blood-shot eye,
Implores thy dreadful deity--
Archangel power of desolation,

Fast descending as thou art,
Say, hath mortal invocation

Spells to touch thy stony heart? Then, sullen Winter, hear my prayer,

And gently rule the ruined year; Nor chill the wanderer's bosom bare,

Nor freeze the wreteb's falling tear; To shiv'ring Want's unmantled bed

Thy horror-breathing agues cease to lend,
And mildly on the orphan head

Of innocence descend !
But chiefly spare, O king of clouds,
The sailor on his airy shrouds-
When wrecks and beacons strew the steep,
And spectres walk along the deep;
Milder yet thy snowy breezes

Breathe on yonder tented shores,
Where the Rhine's bright billow freezes,
Where the dark-brown Danube roars!
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IV.

El bars

O winds of Winter ! list ye there

To many a deep and dying groan ?
Or start, ye demons of the midnight air,
· At shrieks and thunders louder than your own?
Alas! e'en your unhallowed breath

May spare the victim fallen low;
But man will ask no truce to death,
No bound to human wo.

Campbell.

ON THE SPRING. Lo! where the rosy-bosom’d Hours,

Fair Venus' train, appear,
Diselose the long-expected flowers,

And wake the purple year!
The Attic warbler pours her throat,
Responsive to the cuckow's note,

The untaught harmony of Spring :
While, whispering pleasure as they fly,
Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky

Their gather'd fragrance fling.

In fo

Or chil

Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch

A broader, browner shade,
Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech

O’er-canopies the glade,
Beside some water's rushy brink
With me the muse shall sit, and think

(At ease reclin'd in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How low, how little are the proud,

How indigent the great!

Still is the toiling hand of Care;

The panting herds repose :
Yet hark, how through the peopled air

The busy murmur glows!
The insect youth are on the wing,
Eager to taste the honey'd spring,

And float amid the liquid noon:
Some lightly o’er the current skim,
Some show their gaily gilded trim

Quick-glancing to the Sun.

To Contemplation's sober eye

Such is the race of man:
And they that creep, and they that fly,

Shall end where they began.
Alike the busy and the gay.
But flatter through life's little day,

In fortune's varying colours dress’d:
Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance,
Or chill'd by age, their airy dance

They leave, in dust to rest.

Methinks I hear, in accents low,

The sportive kind reply :
Poor moralist! and what art thou

A solitary fly!
Thy joys no glittåring female meets,
No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets,

No painted plumage to display:
On hasty wings thy youth is flown;
Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone:
We frolic while 'tis May.'