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'T is not that sweet herbs and flow'rs alone
Start up, like spirits that have lain asleep

In their great mother's iced bosom deep
For months, or that the birds, more joyous grown,
Catch once again their silver summer tone;
And they who late from bough to bough did creep,
Now trim their plumes upon some sunny steep,
And seem to sing of winter overthrown.
No-with an equal march the immortal mind,
As though it never could be left behind,
Keeps pace with every movement of the year;
And (for high truths are born in happiness)
As the warm heart expands, the eye grows clear,
And sees beyond the slave's or bigot's guess.

BARRY CORNWALL.

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"Here's a health to thee, Jessie."-BURNS.

ERE'S a health to thee, Mary,

Here's a health to thee;

The drinkers are gone, and I am alone,

And I am alone,

To think of home and thee, Mary.

There are some who may shine o'er thee, Mary,

And many as frank and free,

And a few as fair,

But the summer air

Is not more sweet to me, Mary.

I have thought of thy last low sigh, Mary,

And thy dimmed and gentle eye;

And I've called on thy name
When the night winds came,
And heard my heart reply, Mary,

Song.

Be thou but true to me, Mary,
And I'll be true to thee;

And at set of sun,

When my task is done,

Be sure that I'm ever with thee, Mary.

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BARRY CORNWALL.

THE BIRTH OF THE ANEMONE.

By this the boy that by her side lay killed,
Was melted like a vapour from her sight,
And in his blood, that on the ground lay spill'd,

A purple flower sprung up, chequer'd with white: Resembling well his pale cheeks, and the blood Which in round drops upon their whiteness stood.

She bows her head, the new sprung flower to smell, Comparing it to her Adonis' breath;

And says, within her bosom it shall dwell,

Since he himself is reft from her by death: She crops the stalk. and in the breach appears Green dropping sap, which she compares to tears. SHAKSPEARE'S "Venus and Adonis,"

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