Happy when her welfare calls, In the mines of knowledge: Nature's wealth and learning's spoil Win from school and college; Minds are of celestial birth; Closer, closer let us knit Hearts and hands together, In the wildest weather; FRIEND AFTER FRIEND DE- FRIEND after friend departs; Were this frail world our final rest, Beyond the reign of death, There surely is some blessed clime Where life is not a breath; Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire There is a world above Where parting is unknown: Formed for the good alone: Thus star by star declines, Till all are past away, As morning high and higher shines, To pure and perfect day; Nor sink those stars in empty night, But hide themselves in heaven's own light. The sweetnesses of love are gone, And hearts, so lately mingled, seem That smiling left the mountain's brow, As though its waters ne'er could sever, Yet e'er it reached the plain below, Breaks into floods that part forever. O you, that have the charge of love, Keep him in rosy bondage bound! As in the fields of bliss above He sits, with flowerets fettered round; Loose not a tie that round him clings, Nor ever let him use his wings For even an hour, a minute's flight Will rob the plumes of half their light. Like that celestial bird,— whose nest Is found beneath far eastern skies, Whose wings, though radiant when at rest, Lose all their glory when he flies. [From Lalla Rookh.] RECOGNITION OF A CONGENIAL SPIRIT. OH! there are looks and tones that dart Like broken clouds, or like the An instant sunshine through the |