Should betray thee when sorrows like clouds | Light is my heart since the day we were I'll pull you sweet flowers to wear if you choose them, Or after you've kissed them they'll lie on my bosom; Should they who are dearest-the son of thy I'll fetch from the mountain its breeze to heart, The wife of thy bosom-in sorrow depart, Look aloft from the darkness and dust of the tomb To that soil where affection is ever in bloom. And oh, when Death comes in his terrors to cast His fears on the future, his pall on the past, inspire you; sing you sweet songs till the stars rise above me, In that moment of darkness, with hope in Then, wandering, I'll wish you in silence to love me. We'll look through the trees at the cliff and the eyrie; We'll tread round the rath on the track of the fairy; COME in the evening or come in the We'll look on the stars, and we'll list to the river, morning, Come when you're looked for or come with- Till you ask of your darling what gift you out warning, can give her. Kisses and welcome you'll find here before Oh, she'll whisper you, "Love as unchangeably beaming, you; And the oftener you come here, the more I'll And trust, when in secret, most tunefully streaming, adore you. Till the starlight of heaven above us shall If with no lawless fire it gleamed, quiver But through the dews of kindness beamed, As our souls flow in one down eternity's That eye shall be for ever bright river." So come in the evening or come in the morning, When stars and sun are sunk in night. Within this hollow cavern hung Come when you're looked for or come with- If Falsehood's honey it disdained, out warning, And when it could not praise was chained; Kisses and welcome you'll find here before If bold in Virtue's cause it spoke,. Yet gentle concord never broke, you; And the oftener you come here, the more I'll This silent tongue shall plead for thee adore you. IT That homage should be paid to the Most There is a temple, one not made with hands The vaulted firmament. Far in the woods, THE PALACES OF ARABY. THE palaces of Araby! How beautiful they were, Rearing their golden pinnacles unto the sunny air 'Mid fragrant groves of spice and balm and waving orange trees, And clear-toned fountains sparkling up to kiss the passing breeze! The palaces of Araby! Oh, still there is a dream, A vision, on my brain of all as long extinct and dim; They rise upon my fancy yet, vast, beautiful | That dream hath fled, that pageant passed : and grand, As in past centuries they stood through all Why rise ye up so vividly, so brightly, to that radiant land. my brain? The desert hath no palaces, the sands no fountain-stream, And the brave and beautiful are frail and shadowy as my dream. And urns of massive crystal bright stood on The palaces of Araby! Oh, there is not a each marble floor, stone Where odors of a thousand lands burned To mark the splendor and the pride for ever And the gleaming of uncounted geins and Lost Araby, lost Araby, the world's extin- Streamed down from every fretted dome Thou liest dark and desolate, a thing of shame I see them now" so fancy deems"-those Binding with glittering gems and flowers their dark and flowing curls, Or sweeping with their long rich robes Or holding in their rose-clad bowers gay, I see them now-" so fancy deems "—those Draining their draughts of ruby wine from Or dashing on their battle-steeds like meteors With the dazzling gleam of helm and shield and blight; tears Counted my moments through the blessed day. And then to this there was a dull, strange ache For ever sleeping in my breast-a numbing pain That would not for an instant be forgot. very arm to which I clung so oft, More is my shame—I made excuses for him: "Just this or that had forced him to the course: Perhaps he loved me yet-a little yet. And turned and whispered Dora, and she laughed. Ah! then I saw it all. I've been awake GEORGE H. BOKER. WARDEN, KEEP A PLACE FOR ME. INCIDENT OF PRISON LIFE IN THE KINGS COUNTY PENITENTIARY. DISCHARGED again! Yes, I am free, But, warden, keep a place for me; For I'll come back. It's seven years But when I went away I said, |