NATURE WITH FOLDED HANDS SEEMED THERE,

A SPRING LANDSCAPE.

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Each morning sees some task begin,

Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,

For the lessons thou hast taught:
Thus at the flaming forge of life

Our fortunes must be wrought-
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.

[HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.]

"THE HEIGHTS BY GREAT MEN REACHED and kept, weRE NOT ATTAINED BY SUDDEn flight;"-(Longfellow)

"BUT THEY, WHILE THEIR COMPANIONS SLEPT, WERE TOILING UPWARD IN THE NIGHT."-Longfellow.

A SPRING LANDSCAPE.

HE green trees whispered low and mild:
It was a sound of joy ;

They were my playmates when a child,
And rocked me in their arms so wild,—
Still they looked at me and smiled,
As if I were a boy;

And ever whispered, mild and low,
"Come, be a child once more!"
And waved their long arms to and fro,
And beckoned solemnly and slow:
Oh! I could not choose but go
Into the woodlands hoar;

Into the blithe and breathing air,

Into the solemn wood

KNEELING AT HER EVENING PRAYER."-LONGFELLOW.

"LONG HAVE I LOVED WHAT I BEHOLD, THE NIGHT THAT CALMS, THE DAY THAT CHEERS."-WORDSWORTH.

"MAN MAY BE BLEST WITH ALL THE EARTH CAN GIVE; BUT EARTH CAN GIVE NO REST."-QUARLES.

THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS.

T was the schooner Hesperus,

That sailed the wintry sea;

And the skipper had taken his little daughter,
To bear him company.

Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,
Her cheeks like the dawn of day,

And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds

That ope in the month of May.

GOD HATH WRITTEN IN THOSE STARS ABOVE."-I.ONGFELLOW.

"THE AIR IS FULL OF FAREWELLS FOR THE DYING, AND MOURNINGS FOR THE DEAD;"-(LONGFELLOW)

Down came the storm, and smote amain
The vessel in its strength;

She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed,
Then leaped her cable's length

"Come hither, come hither, my little daughter,
And do not tremble so ;

For I can weather the roughest gale
That ever wind did blow."

He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat,
Against the stinging blast;

He cut a rope from a broken spar,

And bound her to the mast.

THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN WHOLLY TOLD."-LONGFELLOW

"THE HEARt of rachel, FOR HER CHILDREN CRYING, WILL NOT BE COMFORTED."-LONGFELLOW.

let the deaD PAST BURY ITS DEAD!"-LONGFELLOW. "TRUST NO FUTURE, HOWEVER PLEASANT !

HOW BEAUTIFUL THE RAIN, AFTER THE DUST AND HEAT

THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS.

"O father, I hear the church-bells ring!
O say, what may it be?"

"'Tis a fog-bell on a rock-bound coast!"
And he steered for the open sea.

"O father, I hear the sound of guns!

O say, what may it be?"

"Some ship in distress, that cannot live
In such an angry sea!"

"O father, I see a gleaming light!
O say, what may it be?"

But the father answered never a word

A frozen corpse was he!

Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark,
With his face to the skies,

The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow
On his fixed and glassy eyes.

Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed
That saved she might be ;

And she thought of Christ, who stilled the waves
On the Lake of Galilee.

And fast through the midnight dark and drear,
Through the whistling sleet and snow,

Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Towards the reef of Norman's Woe.

And ever, the fitful gusts between,
A sound came from the land;
It was the sound of the trampling surf
On the rocks and the hard sea-sand.

IN THE BROAD AND FIERY STREET!"-LONGFELLOW.

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"ACT, ACT IN THE LIVING PRESENT-HEART WITHIN, AND GOD O'ERHEAD."-LONGFELLOW.

"NO ONE IS SO ACCURSED BY FATE, NO ONE SO UTTERLY DESOLATE," (LONGFELLOW)

BENEATH THE BRIGHT AND SILVER SEA !"-LONGFELLOW.

"BUT SOME HEART, THOUGH UNKNOWN, RESPONDS UNTO HIS OWN."-LONGFELLOW.