And the sobs of low bewailing
Filled the pauses of their prayer.
Then up spake a Scottish maiden,
With her ear unto the ground:
"Dinna ye hear it? dinna ye hear it?-
The pipes o' Havelock sound!"

5. Hushed the wounded man his groaning; Hushed the wife her little ones;

Alone they heard the drum roll
And the roar of Sepoy guns.

But to sounds of home and childhood
The Highland ear was true;-

As her mother's cradle-crooning
The mountain pipes she knew.

6. Like the march of soundless music
Through the vision of the seer,
More of feeling than of hearing,
Of the heart than of the ear.
She knew the droning pibroch,
She knew the Campbell's call:
"Hark! hear ye no' Macgregor's,-
The grandest o' them all!"

7. Oh, they listened, dumb and breathless,
And they caught the sound at last;
Faint and far beyond the Goomtee
Rose and fell the pipers' blast!
Then a burst of wild thanksgiving
Mingled woman's voice and man's;
"God be praised!-the march of Have-
lock-

The piping of the clans!"

8. Louder, nearer, fierce as vengeance,
Sharp and shrill as swords at strife,
Came the wild Macgregor clan-call,
Stinging all the air to life.

But when the far-off dust-cloud
To plaided legions grew,
Full tenderly and blithesomely
The pipes of rescue blew !

9. Round the silver domes of Lucknow,
Moslem mosque and pagan shrine,

Breathed the air to Britons dearest-
The air of Auld Lang Syne.
O'er the cruel roll of war-drums

Rose that sweet and homelike strain;
And the tartan clove the turban,
As the Goomtee cleaves the plain.

10. Dear to the corn-land reaper
And plaided mountaineer,-
To the cottage and the castle
The piper's song is dear.
Sweet sounds the Gaelic pibroch
O'er mountain, glen, and glade ;
But the sweetest of all music
The pipes at Lucknow played!

ON STUDIES.

or-na-ment, that which adorns
or makes beautiful.
ex-e-cute, to perform.

ex-pert, quick, clever.
con-temn, despise.
ob-ser-va-tion, taking notice.

1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in the quiet of private life; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business: for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and arranging of affairs, come best from those that are learned.

2. To spend too much time in studies, is

sloth; to use too much for ornament, is pretence; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experi

ence.

3. Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use, but that there is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

4. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

5. Reading maketh a full man; conversation a ready man; and writing an exact man: and therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.

6. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy,

deep; moral philosophy, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Indeed there is no stand or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body may, by appropriate exercises.

7. Bowling is good for the back; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head and the like so, if a man's wits be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

8. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the disputations of the schoolmen; if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call upon one thing to beat and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases: so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.

THE CHARM O THE SEASONS.

1. There's a charm in spring,
When everything

Is bursting from the ground,

When pleasant showers

Bring forth the flowers,

And all is life around.

2. In summer's day

The fragrant hay