Shall love, like these sweet lingerers, seem
Still lovelier for thy faded prime,
And gild with softer, holier beam

The waste of Beauty's Autumn time!

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AN ORANGE-TREE RECEIVED FROM THE WEST INDIES LATE IN

AUTUMN.

W. P. Palmer.

ROM thine Eden of the sea

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Hapless tree!

Where eternal Summer smiles
On the green Caribbean isles,
Borne to this ungenial clime
In the scowling Autumn time,
Poor forlorn one, be of cheer,
Hope is here!

Little prattling ones shall play 'Mid the leafy shades so sweet, At thy feet.

So then, prithee, come with me, Hapless tree!

And beneath my lowly roof, Let thy greeting be a proof That the peasant's humble door To the wretched evermore,

With as wide a welcome swings

As a king's!

Winter Piece.

James Russell Lowell.

DOWN swept the chill wind from the mountain peak,

From the snow five thousand Summers old;

On open wold and hill-top bleak

It had gathered all the cold.

And whirled it like sleet on the wanderer's cheek;

It carried a shiver every where

From the unleafed boughs and pastures bare;

The little brook heard it, and built a roof
'Neath which he could house him, Winter-proof;
All night by the white stars' frosty gleams
He groined his arches and matched his beams;
Slender and clear were his crystal spars

As the lashes of light that trim the stars;
He sculptured every Summer delight
In his halls and chambers out of sight;
Sometimes his tinkling waters slipt

Down through a frost-leaved forest crypt,
Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees,
Bending to counterfeit a breeze;

"or the gladness of heaven to shine through, and here He had caught the nodding bulrush-tops

nd hung them thickly with diamond drops,
Which crystalled the beams of moon and sun,
nd made a star of every one:

To mortal builder's most rare device
ould match this Winter-palace of ice;
Twas as if every image that mirrored lay
n his depths serene through the Summer day,
Each flitting shadow of earth and sky,
Lest the happy model should be lost,
Had been mimicked in fairy masonry

By the elfin builders of the frost.