110 LECHMERE LEA. And the cock, his clarion sounding, At his call the village waketh— Where the stream with windings myriad There, within the stillest corner, 'Midst the sedge and 'midst the reeds, Floats a form, whose golden ringlets Tangled mingle with the weeds. And the face, with pallid features, Cloudless with its azure hue. LECHMERE LEA. For that form no more the morning With its stir and busy noise. All is past! life's joy and sorrow Ah! forgive that form that sleepeth OXFORD. 111 C. T. S, when the wind is high, with fearful roar The booming breakers wake the shingly shore, When lightnings dance abroad, and air is rent; A few short hours,-and all their rage is spent: Without a ripple sleeps the peaceful brine, And on its dimpled face the sunbeams shine: So come misfortunes: o'er the heads of men With fearful force they break ofttimes, but then Subside, and leave him placid as before, And roll away to shake another shore. EXETER COLL., Oxford. P. W. L. Preferences. Favourite and most disliked characters in history. Favourite and most disliked characters in romance Favourite and most disliked characters in men and women. VOL. VII. SF all the names inscribed on History's page, Of king or statesman, soldier or of sage, First in the rank brave William Wallace stands, While infamy the traitor Menteith brands. If in the pages of Romance you seek To view reflected mirrored scenes of life: The noblest virtues that a man can have I 114 PREFERENCES. Chief ambition and hindrance in life. Favourite style of beauty. Favourite colour. Favourite flower. Favourite scent. Favourite drink. To do the actions that I would not do, And leave undone the actions that I would: Blue eyes and flaxen hair and cherry lips, Blue roll the waves of the eternal sea; None lovelier bloom, none sweeter scent exhale, Sweetest the scent that Nature sheds around, Pindar said water, Horace wine was best; C.C.C., OXFORD. S. |