"LOOK AT YON OAK THAT LIFTS ITS STATELY HEAD, AND DALLIES WITH THE AUTUMNAL STORM, WHOSE RAGE-SOUTHEY) BEWARE A SPEEDY FRIEND, THE ARABIAN SAID,-(SOUTHEY) ROBERT SOUTHEY. TEMPESTS THE GREAT SEA-WAVES; SLOWLY IT ROSE, SLOWLY ITS STRENGTH INCREASED THROUGH MANY AN AGE."-SOUTHEY. But oh, the joy! the blessed sight! AND WISELY WAS IT HE ADVISED DISTRUST."-R. SOUTHEY. LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, GRATEFUL DUTY IN ITS HEIGHT; MEEKNESS AND TRUTH, THAT KEEP ALL STRIFE APART, OBEDIENCE IN ITS LAWS THAT TAKES DELIGHT A SCENE IN THE DESERT. A SCENE IN THE DESERT. TILL o'er the wilderness Settled the moveless mist. The timid antelope, that heard their steps, Young Thalaba lay down; The morning came, and not one guiding ray The same deep, moveless mist that mantled all. Oh, for the vulture's scream, Who haunts for prey the abode of human-kind! Oh, for the plover's pleasant cry To tell of water near! Oh, for the camel-driver's song! As in his dreams he heard The sound of rushing winds, Started the anxious youth, and looked abroad, The water-skin was drained; For there was motion in the air! That scattered the thick mist, WAS THEIRS; SIMPLICITY THAT KNOWS NO ART; 423 AND FAITH AND HOPE WHICH ELEVATE THE HEART UPON ITS HEAVENLY HERITAGE INTENT."-ROBERT SOUTHEY. "LOOK AT YON OAK THAT LIFTS ITS STATELY HEAD, AND DALLIES WITH THE AUTUMNAL STORM, WHOSE RAGE-SOUTHEY) BEWARE A SPEEDY FRIEND, THE ARABIAN SAID,-(SOUTHEY) ROBERT SOUTHEY. TEMPESTS THE GREAT SEA-WAVES; SLOWLY IT ROSE, SLOWLY ITS STRENGTH INCREASED THROUGH MANY AN AGE."-SOUTHEY. But oh, the joy! the blessed sight! AND WISELY WAS IT HE ADVISED DISTRUST."-R. SOUTHEY. THE FLOWER THAT BLOSSOMS EARLIEST FADES THE FIRST."-SOUTHEY. MY LIBRARY. Azure and yellow like the beautiful fields The blue-bell bends, the golden king-cup shines, In the merry month of May! O joy! the travellers Gaze on each other with hope-brightened eyes, For sure through that green meadow flows Sees the restoring sight! Hope gives his feeble limbs a sudden strength, He hurries on!.... 425 [From "Thalaba, the Destroyer," a wild and wonderful poem, of rare imaginative power, rising in many places to a high dramatic interest.] "FOR THEN I SOON WOULD WING MY EAGER FLIGHT TO THAT LOVED HOME WHERE FANCY EVEN NOW HATH FLED, AND HOPE LOOKS ONWARD THROUGH A TEAR, COUNTING THE WEARY HOURS THAT HOLD HER HERE."-SOUTHEY. "OH, THOU SWEET LARK, THAT I HAD WINGS LIKE THEE. -R. SOUTHEY. OF GLORY SHEDDEST, WITH BENIGNANT RAY, BEAUTY, AND LIFE, AND JOYAUNCE FROM ABOVE."—SOUTHEY. John Sterling. DOWN STERLING, says an able critic,* must have been a man of genius, as he certainly was of the greatest promise. His friends remember him as a marvelous talker; and his gentle disposition endeared him to all who knew him. The writings which he published in his life-time, and Dowe which have been given to the world since, indicate rather what the kuchor might have done, with good health and a settled purpose, than the insded compositions of a writer in full vigour of understanding, enjoying Yanquilly a mand and body. Sterling possessed neither. He was delicast rom his boyhood, and for many years of his life wholly occupied in yahudig. De resolute pursuit of disease and death. die was born a Kaunes Castle, in the Isle of Bute, on the 20th of July received his preliminary education at various private schools, and shoqata & at the Universities of Glasgow 1821-23) and Cambridge At the lacter his tute was Jus Hare, afterwards Archdeacon **** * # 3s nemoir of Sterling, does justice to his great mental jd ki jeans moure, and redle aspirations. On leaving Cambridge, 1 ti vod but 20 % Kuzum, and his papers are characterized Just mperfect, yet singularly beautiful and attractive.” ANA BON Jus 3 ew weeks after was seized with a dangerous 4 kcompanied by his wife, repaired in quest of Auled in Wan Sani & & Vincent, where his mother had ****** He Guined a Bag and in 134 took orders; became Teld at Nisser dissatisfied with himself, and ill in |