LOCHINVAR.* (SCOTT.) O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, | He staid not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, The bride had consented, the gal·lant came late:| So, boldly he entered the Netherby hall, | Among bridesmen, and kinsmen, and brothers, and all:1 Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword, "I long woo'd your daughter, my suit you denied; | * The ballad of Lochinvar is in a very slight degree founded on a ballad called "Katharine Janfarie," which may be found in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border." ↑ See the novel of Redgauntlet, for a detailed picture of some of the extraordinary phenomena of the spring-tides in the Solway Fritn. The bride kiss'd the goblet; the knight took it up, I So stately his form, and so lovely her face, | And the bride-maidens whisper'd, ""T were better by far To have match'd our fair cousin with young Lochinvar." | One touch to her hand, | and one word in her ear, | When they reach'd the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung 66 She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush and scaur;b They'll have fleet steeds that follow," quoth young Lochinvar. There was mounting 'mong Græmes of the Netherby clan; | Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran:| There was racing, and chasing, on Cannobie Lee, / But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. | So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant, like young Lochinvar! | Gål'yård. b Skår, a craggy, stony hill; a cliff, cleft, or divi sion, or separation in a bank, hill, or any thing else. CASABIANCA. (MRS. HEMANS.) The boy stood on the burning deck, | Yet beautiful and bright he stood, | A proud, though child-like form. I The flames roll'd on- he would not go, ' That father, faint in death below,¦ He call'd aloud-"Say, father, say | He knew not that the chieftain lay | "Speak, father!" once again he cried, I And fast the flames roll'd on. | Upon his brow he felt their breath, | And look'd from that lone post of death, *Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the admiral of the Orient, remained at his post (in the battle of the Nile,) after the ship had taken fire, and all the guns had been abandoned; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. And shouted but once more, aloud, | While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, They wrapt the ship in splendor wild, | There came a burst of thunder sound With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, | MEETING OF SATAN, SIN, AND DEATH. Meanwhile the adversary of God and man, | He scours the right hand coast, sometimes the left; ¦ As when far off at sea a fleet descried | Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Ply, stemming nightly toward the pole: | so seem'd At last appear Hell bounds, high, reaching to the horrid roof, | And thrice three fold the gates: three folds were brass, Three iron, three of adamantine rock Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire, | The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair; | Far less abhorr'd than these Vex'd Scylla,a | bathing in the sea that parts Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore; | Nor uglier follow the night hag, when, call'd In secret, riding through the air, she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon | Eclipses at their charms. | The other shape, | If shape it might be call'd that shape had none | Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd ; | And shook a dreadful dart; | what seem'd his head | The likeness of a kingly crown had on. | a SCYLLA, a fabled monster, of whom mention is made in the Odyssey. She is said to have twelve feet and six long necks, with a terrific head, and three rows of close-set teeth, on each. b CALABRIA, the part of Italy occupied by the ancient Calabri. • TRINACRIA, one of the ancient names of Sicily. |