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WHEN MORNING, LIKE A BLUSHING BRIDE.

BY F. HILL.

WHEN morning, like a blushing bride,
Looks o'er the earth and sea, love,
And to their homes night spirits glide,
Oh, then I'll think of thee, love.

And every mirrored orb that glides
Across the summer sea, love,
Like silvery glances on our dreams,
Shall wake a thought of thee, love.

Then fare thee well, and bear with thee
This smile-for not one tear, love,
Shall dim thy precious memory,

So fondly treasured here, love.

For oh! these eyes with fond truth shine,
And this fond melting heart, love,

Declare that I am ever thine,

That still mine own thou art, love.

THERE'S BEAUTY IN THE DEEP.

BY J. G. C. BRAINARD.

THERE'S beauty in the deep The wave is bluer than the sky;

And, though the light shine bright on high,

More softly do the sea-gems glow

That sparkle in the depths below;
The rainbow's tints are only made
When on the waters they are laid,
And sun and moon most sweetly shine
Upon the ocean's level brine.
There's beauty in the deep.

There's music in the deep:-
It is not in the surf's rough roar,
Nor in the whispering, shelly shore-
They are but earthly sounds, that tell
How little of the sea-nymph's shell,
That sends its loud, clear note abroad,
Or winds its softness through the flood,
Echoes through groves with coral gay,
And dies, on spongy banks, away.
There's music in the deep.

There's quiet in the deep :

Above, let tides and tempests rave,

And earth-born whirlwinds wake the wave;

Above, let care and fear contend,
With sin and sorrow to the end:
Here, far beneath the tainted foam
That frets above our peaceful home,
We dream in joy, and wake in love,
Nor know the rage that yells above.
There's quiet in the deep.

ANDRE'S REQUEST TO WASHINGTON.

BY NATHANIEL P. WILLIS.

IT is not the fear of death
That damps my brow,

It is not for another breath

I ask thee now;

I can die with a lip unstirred

And a quiet heart

Let but this prayer be heard
Ere I depart.

I can give up my mother's look

My sister's kiss;

I can think of love-yet brook

A death like this!

I can give up the young fame
I burned to win-

All-but the spotless name
I glory in.

Thine is the power to give,
Thine to deny,

Joy for the hour I live

Calmness to die.

By all the brave should cherish,
By my dying breath,

I ask that I may perish

By a soldier's death!

THEY SAY THAT NE'ER BY FORTUNE'S

GALE.

BY GEORGE D. STRONG.

THEY say that ne'er by fortune's gale
My hero's brow was fanned,
That round his tall and graceful form
No powdered menials stand:
What care I for the glittering dross
That lures but to betray?

Love claims affection's holier gems

To cheer his lonely way!

They tell me that my charmer owns
No proud ancestral line,

That, sparkling on his manly breast,
No courtly emblems shine:

Alas, o'er many a courtier's brow

Dark falsehood's ensigns wave,
And jewels oft have flashed around
Foul passion's palsied slave.

Then cease, the fruitless theme forego,
Nor mock my pure desire;

Not mine the transient, flickering flame
That kindles to expire!
Fortune I spurn, her gifts despise ;

Be mine the blissful lot

With him life's ills and joys to share
In palace or in cot.

HOME, SWEET HOME.

BY J. HOWARD PAYNE.

MID pleasures and palaces, though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with else-
where.

Home, home, sweet, sweet home,

There's no place like home.

An exile from home, splendour dazzles in vain,
O give me my lowly thatched cottage again;

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