MARCH THE stormy March is come at last That through the snowy valley flies. Ah, passing few are they who speak, For thou, to northern lands, again And, in thy reign of blast and storm, Then sing aloud the gushing rills The year's departing beauty hides AN INDIAN STORY. Thou bring'st the hope of those calm skies, CONSUMPTION. Ay, thou art for the grave; thy glances shine AN INDIAN STORY. 'I KNOW where the timid fawn abides In the depths of the shaded dell, Where the leaves are broad and the thicket hides. With its many stems and its tangled sides, From the eye of the hunter well. "I know where the young May violet grows, In its lone and lowly nook, On the mossy bank, where the larch-tree throws Its broad dark boughs, in solemn repose, Far over the silent brook. "And that timid fawn starts not with fear Thus Maquon sings as he lightly walks "Tis a song of his maid of the woods and rocks, With her bright black eyes and long black locks, And voice like the music of rills. He goes to the chase-but evil eyes For she was lovely that smiled on his sighs, The boughs in the morning wind are stirred, And Maquon has promised his dark-haired maid, Ere eve shall redden the sky, A good red deer from the forest shade, That bounds with the herd through grove and glade, At her cabin-door shall lie. AN INDIAN STORY. The hollow woods, in the setting sun, And his shafts are spent, but the spoil they won He stops near his bower-his eye perceives At once to the earth his burden he heaves, But the vines are torn on its walls that leant, 61 By struggling hands have the leaves been rent, And there hangs on the sassafras, broken and bent, One tress of the well-known hair. But where is she who, at this calm hour, She is not at the door, nor yet in the bower; It is not a time for idle grief, The horror that freezes his limbs is brief- And he looks for the print of the ruffian's feet, And he darts on the fatal path more fleet Twas early summer when Maquon's bride But at length the maples in crimson are dyed, But far in the pine-grove, dark and cold, And the Indian girls, that pass that way, "And how soon to the bower she loved," they say, Returned the maid that was borne away From Maquon, the fond and the brave." SUMMER WIND. Ir is a sultry day; the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in the lofty elm That canopies my dwelling, and its shade Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint And interrupted murmur of the bee, Settling on the sick flowers, and then again Instantly on the wing. The plants around Feel the too potent fervors: the tall maize Rolls up its long green leaves; the clover droops Its tender foliage, and declines its blooms. But far in the fierce sunshine tower the hills, |