21. By various arts of love and hate. Where roam the lion, wolf, and boar. 22. Till he becomes a wayward babe, 23. The trees bring forth sweet ecstasy And many a pleasant shepherd's home. 24. But, when they find the frowning babe, Terror strikes through the region wide: They cry-" The babe-the babe is born!" And flee away on every side. 25. For who dare touch the frowning form, 26. And none can touch that frowning form She nails him down upon the rock, And all is done as I have told. WILLIAM BOND. WONDER whether the girls are mad, And I wonder whether they mean to kill, And I wonder if William Bond will die, For assuredly he is very ill. He went to church on a May morning, He went not out to the field nor fold, And an angel of Providence at his feet, And in the midst the sick man on his bed. And on his right hand was Mary Green, And on his left hand was his sister Jane, "Oh William, if thou dost another love, "Yes, Mary, I do another love, Another I love far better than thee, And another I will have for my wife: Then what have I to do with thee? "For thou art melancholy pale, And on thy head is the cold moon's shine, But she is ruddy and bright as day, And the sunbeams dazzle from her eyne." Mary trembled, and Mary chilled, And Mary fell down on the right-hand floor, That William Bond and his sister Jane Scarce could recover Mary more. When Mary woke and found her laid And saw her William Bond so near; The fairies that fled from William Bond They danced over the pillow white, And the angels of Providence left the bed. "I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine, I thought to find Love in the heat of day, "Seek Love in the pity of others' woe, In the gentle relief of another's care, In the darkness of night and the winter's snow, With the naked and outcast,-seek Love there." COUPLETS AND FRAGMENTS. I. WALKED abroad on a snowy day, And the Winter called it a dreadful crime. II. TINENCE sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair; But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. HE look of love alarms, Because 'tis filled with fire, But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire : Soft deceit and idleness, These are beauty's sweetest dress. IV. O Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole. V. CROWN old in love from seven till seven times seven, I oft have wished for hell, for ease from heaven. VI. HE Sword sang on the barren heath, VII. REAT things are done when men and mountains meet; These are not done by jostling in the street. VIII. HE errors of a wise man make your rule, Rather than the perfections of a fool. |