POEMS OF AN INTERVAL.

BY

ALFRED SAXELBY WEST.

AUTHOR OF

"YOUTHFUL ECHOES" AND "THE CITY ON THE RIVER.'

LONDON:

WILLIAM MACINTOSH, 24, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1863.

280. h. 66.

POEMS OF AN INTERVAL.

THE loppéd tree in time may grow again;
Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower;
The sorriest wight may find release of pain;
The driest soil suck in some moistening shower.

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No joy so great but runneth to an end-
No hap so hard but may in time amend.

ROBERT SOUTHWELL.

Tombs where lonely love repines,
Glastly tenements of tears
Wear the look of happy shrines

Through the golden mist of years.

R. MONCKTON MILNES.

To Sorrow I was cast

To act and suffer; but remount at last

With a fresh pinion.

LORD BYRON.

Centred Stars. (Composed for the Islington Young Men's

Christian Benevolent Society)

NATIONAL POEMS.

On the Departure of Her Royal Highness the Princess

Frederic William of Prussia, January, 1858

Britain's Watchfulness

Britain's Peace

53

56

60

Lines on the lamented Death of His Royal Highness the

• Prince Consort, December 14, 1861.

The Two Messages

Britain's Record

Three Poems in commemoration of the Arrival and Marriage

of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, March