That freedom ye, at length, bestow, And bid me bless my envied fate: Yet tell me I am free to go · Where? I am desolate ! the spring of joy, Felt when the spirit's strength is young; Which slavery only can alloy, The mockeries to which I clung, The eyes, whose fond and sunny ray "Bring back the chain! its clanking sound "Bring back the chain! that I may think "T is that which weighs my spirits so; And, gazing on each galling link, Dream as I dreamt My days are gone; of bitter woe! of hope, of youth, These traces now alone remain ; (Hoarded with sorrow's sacred truth) "Freedom! though doomed in pain to live, THE CHRISTENING. BY CHARLES LAMB. ARRAYED- —a half-angelic sight — Close by the babe the priest doth stand— Which must assoil the soul within The infant eyes the mystic scenes, Nor knows what all this wonder means; And now he smiles, as if to say, "I am a Christian made this day." Are, as Bethesda's waters, good. Strange words-the World, the Flesh, the Devil; Poor babe, what can it know of evil? But we must silently adore Mysterious truths, and not explore. And more and more will strive to flee All that my sponsors kind renounced for me." CHANGE. BY MISS LANDON. We say that people and that things are changed; WHERE are the flowers, the beautiful flowers That haunted your homes and your heart in the spring? Where is the sunshine of earlier hours? Where is the music the birds used to bring? Where are the flowers? springing, - why, thousands are And many fair strangers are sweet on the air ; And the birds to the sunshine their welcome are singing Look round on our valley, and then question, "Where?" Alas, my heart's darkness! I own it is summer, 'Tis my spirits are wasted-my hopes that are weary; These made the gladness and beauty of yore: To the worn and the withered even sunshine is dreary, And the year has its spring, though our own is no more. THE EMIGRANT'S CABIN. BY THOMAS PRINGLE. WHERE the young river, from its wild ravine, And willows bending o'er in graceful ranks, This morning, musing in that favourite seat, |