WE MET WHEN LIFE AND HOPE WERE NEW. BY ALARIC A. WATTS. I. WE met when life and hope were new, Can know no second spring! II. What though our love was never told,— By signs that would not be controlled, In one short moon, as brief as bright, That tender truth proclaimed ! 266 WE MET WHEN LIFE AND HOPE WERE NEW. III. We parted, chilling looks among; IV. Yet still a spell was in thy name, Of magic power to me; That bade me strive for wealth and fame, And long, through many an after-year, V. More sacred ties, at length, are ours, And later joys, like autumn-flowers, But never canst thou be again, I glory in another's chain,— VI. Thy stream of life glides calmly on, (A prosperous lot is thine,) The brighter, that it did not join The turbid waves of mine! Yet oh! could fondest love relume Joy's sunshine on my brow, Thine scarce can be a happier doom Than I might boast of now! AILSA-CRAG. BY THE REV. C. HOYLE. LONE, inaccessible, forbidden steep, And hiding in the cloud thy furrowed brow! In hoarse defiance scream. The winter's night, The summer's noontide, are alike to thee,- For what are time, or earthquake, what the power Thy date and place are from creation's hour, Till heaven dissolve, and flames the globe devour. REGULUS. BY THE REV. THOMAS DALE. I. URGE me no more-your prayers are vain, Then will I seek once more a home, II. Accursed moment! when I woke From faintness all but death; Betrayed no sign of agony, Inly I cursed my breath ; Wherefore, of all that fought, was I III. To darkness and to chains consigned, I recked not;-could they chain the mind, Or plunge the soul in gloom? And there they left me, dark and lone, They led me forth-I thought, to die O, in that thought was ecstasy! IV. But no ;-kind Heaven had yet in store For me, a conquered slave, A joy I thought to feel no more, Or feel but in the grave. They deemed, perchance, my haughtier mood Was quelled by chains and solitude; Was I not brave!-had now become V. They bade me to my country bear The offers these have borne;— They would have trained my lips to swear, |