Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow;

Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.

5. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form
Glasses itself in tempests; in all time,

Calm or convulsed-in breeze, or gale, or storm,
Icing the pole, or in torrid clime,

Dark heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime
The image of Eternity-the throne

Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

6. And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy

Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy
I wanton'd with thy breakers- they to me
Were a delight; and if the freshening sea
Made them a terror, 't was a pleasing fear;

For I was, as it were, a child of thee,
And trusted to thy billows far and near,
And laid my hand upon thy mane

as I do here.

BYRON.

LXXXI. THE PALMETTO AND THE PINE.

VIRGINIA L. FRENCH (1830-1881) was born on the eastern shore of Virginia, and in 1848 became a teacher in Memphis, Tenn., where she wrote much under the name of "L'Inconnue." She was, for a time, editor of the Crusader, Atlanta, Ga. Among her works are Wind Whispers (poems), Iztalilzo, and Legends of the South.

1. THEY planted them together—our gallant sires of old — Though one was crowned with crystal snow, and one with solar gold.

They planted them together—on the world's majestic height; At Saratoga's deathless charge; at Eutaw's stubborn fight; At midnight, on the dark redoubt, 'mid plunging shot and shell;

At noontide, gasping in the crush of battle's bloody swell. With gory hands and reeking brows, amid the mighty fray Which surged and swelled around them on that memorable day

When they planted Independence as a symbol and a sign, They struck deep soil, and planted the palmetto and the pine.

2. They planted them together-by the river of the yearsWatered with our fathers' hearts'-blood, watered with our mothers' tears;

In the strong, rich soil of freedom, with a bounteous benison From their prophet, priest, and pioneer -our father, Washington!

Above them floated echoes of the ruin and the wreck,

Like "drums that beat at Louisburg, and thundered at Que

bec";

But the old lights sank in darkness as the new stars rose to

shine

O'er those emblems of the sections-the palmetto and the

pine.

3. And we'll plant them still together-for 't is yet the selfsame soil

Our fathers' valor won for us by victory and toil;

On Florida's fair everglades, by bold Ontario's flood

And through them send electric life, as leaps the kindred

blood!

For thus it is they taught us who for freedom lived and died

The Eternal's law of justice must and shall be justified,
That God has joined together, by a fiat all divine,

The destinies of dwellers 'neath the palm-tree and the pine.

4. God plant them still together! Let them flourish side by side In the halls of our Centennial, mailed in more than marble

pride!

With kindly deeds and noble names we'll grave them o'er and o'er,

With brave historic legends of the glorious days of yore; While the clear, exultant chorus, rising from united bands, The echo of our triumph peals to earth's remotest lands; While "faith, fraternity, and love" shall joyfully entwine Around our chosen emblems, the palmetto and the pine.

5. "Together!" shouts Niagara, his thunder-toned decree; "Together!" echo back the waves upon the Mexic Sea;

Together!" sing the sylvan hills where old Atlantic roars; Together!" boom the breakers on the wild Pacific shores; "Together!" cry the people. And "together" it shall be, An everlasting charter-bond forever for the free!

Of liberty the signet-seal, the one eternal sign,

Be those united emblems—the palmetto and the pine.

VIRGINIA L. FRENCH.

I know not where His islands lift

Their fronded palms in air;

I only know I cannot drift

Beyond His love and care.

-WHITTIER, in "The Eternal Goodness."

LXXXII. ON STUDIES.

FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626) was born in London, and was one of the greatest of modern philosophers. At 12 years of age he was sent to Cambridge, some time after leaving which he was admitted to the bar, and in 1590 became counsellor-extraordinary to the queen- - almost the greatest honor known to have been given to one so young. Unluckily for his reputation, in order to advance his interests at court he employed his talents to ruin the character of his former friend, the Earl of Essex, that he might vindicate the conduct of the queen. After James I. took the throne, Bacon enjoyed the highest favor at court, but later he was accused and found guilty of accepting bribes, was fined a large sum and imprisoned, but in two days set at liberty, and allowed a large income by the king. His greatest work was his Novum Organum, published in 1620, and the most popular of his writings are his Essays.

FRANCIS BACON.

1. STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in the quiet of private life; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels and the plots and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned.

2. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

3. Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use, but that there is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and to confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

4. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Some books may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.

5. Reading maketh a full man; conversation a ready man; and writing an exact man; and therefore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little he had need have much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.

6. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral philosophy, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Indeed, there is no stand or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may, by appropriate exercises.

7. Bowling is good for the back; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head, and the like: so, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wits be called away never so little, he must begin again.

8. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let