SYDNEY DOBELL. LXVII. HOME: IN WAR-TIME. SHE turned the fair page with her fairer hand- New motes into the sun; and as a bee Sings through a brake of bells, so murmured she, And so her patient love did understand The reliquary room. Upon the sill She fed his favourite bird. "Ah, Robin, sing! He loves thee." Then she touches a sweet string Of soft recall, and towards the Eastern hill Smiles all her soul for him who cannot hear The raven croaking at his carrion ear. LXVIII. DON QUIXOTE. BEHIND thy pasteboard, on thy battered hack, Yet would to-day, when Courtesy grows chill, Some fire of thine might burn within us still ! Ah! would but one might lay his lance in rest, And charge in earnest-were it but a mill. THOMAS DOUBLEDAY. LXIX. THE SEA CAVE. HARDLY we breathe, although the air be free: How that clear pool lies sleeping tranquilly, The printless footsteps of some sea-born maid, LXX. ANGLING. Go, take thine angle, and with practised line, Beneath the shadow, where the waters creep, Perchance the monarch of the brook shall leapFor fate is ever better than design. Still persevere; the giddiest breeze that blows, For thee may blow, with fame and fortune rife; Be prosperous-and what reck if it arose Out of some pebble with the stream at strife, Or that the light wind dallied with the boughs? Thou art successful;-such is human life. EDWARD DOWDEN. LXXI. AN INTERIOR. THE grass around my limbs is deep and sweet; Of tempered light where fair things fair things meet; Alone, white-robed she sits; a fierce macaw |