118 THE PLEASURE BOAT. From that far isle the thresher's flail Strikes close upon the ear; Of yonder sloop sound near. The parting sun sends out a glow Touching with glory all the show. Careening to the wind, they reach, Goddess of Beauty, must I now Vowed worship to thee pay? Dear goddess, I grow old, I trow :— LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. BY W. LEGGETT. THE birds, when winter shades the sky, Where laughing isles in sunshine lie, And thus the friends that flutter near While fortune's sun is warm, Are startled if a cloud appear, And fly before the storm. But when from winter's howling plains Each other warbler's past, The little snow bird still remains, And cherups midst the blast. Love, like that bird, when friendship's throng With fortune's sun depart, Still lingers with its cheerful song, And nestles on the heart, LINES FOR MUSIC. BY T. S. FAY. OVER forest and meadow the night breeze is stealing, I have watched from the beach which your presence enchanted, In the star-lighted heaven each beautiful gem, And I sighed as I thought, ere the break of the morning, In the ripples of silver which roll to the shore. But when summer has fled, and yon flowers have faded, And the fields and the forests are withered and sere LINES FOR MUSIC. 121 When the friends now together, by distance are parted, I lingered at evening to bid you adieu; When I paused by the stream, with the stars so delighted, And wished I might linger for ever with you? Oh, forget not the time when that night-breeze was stealing, Though desolate oceans between us inay roar, The beach-and the stars-and the waters revealing Thoughts bright as the ripples which break on the shore. [The following lines were suggested by an anecdote, said to have been related by the late Dr. Godman, of the ship-boy who was about to fall from the rigging, and was only saved by the mate's characteristic excla. mation, "Look aloft, you lubber."] In the tempest of life, when the wave and the gale If thine eye should grow dim, and thy caution depart― "Look aloft" and be firm, and be fearless of heart. If the friend, who embraced in prosperity's glow With a smile for each joy and a tear for each wo, Should betray thee when sorrows like clouds are arrayed, "Look aloft" to the friendship which never shall fade. Should the visions which hope spreads in light to thine eye, Like the tints of the rainbow, but brighten to fly, Then turn, and through tears of repentant regret, "Look aloft" to the sun that is never to set. |