XI. Knights, little used to pity, sighed ; For her voice to their hearts was felt to glide, Like music from a lute; "Our arms," Gonsalvo said, "achieve The buttress, not the bower; My falchion's edged the oak to cleave, And not to crush the flower. XII. "Peace be to both; you both are free! To you a Christian bends his knee, Believe Gonsalvo there!" They silent kissed his robes and sped To their own dear Darro's water, Granada's noblest daughter! Woburn Abbey. R. THE MUSIC OF THE REEDS. I. A VOICE of music swells from yonder reeds, As peals the distant choir,—and hushed again, Like Hope that cheers Despair-or Grief that weeps in vain! II. It is the native harmony of earth,— • Where fountains in their leafy twilight rise, Grief's golden emblem, with the plant which vies In name with Friendship's self, in hue like summer's skies. III. And well the Arcadian Deity of yore, Beneath the shade of moss-grown boughs reclined, Where nodding thickets crowned the pebbled shore, And raised the reed its answer to the wind, Amidst the whispered melody might find The infant breathings of that conquering power, The first, and mightiest mistress of the mind, While lasts Affliction's storm, or Danger's hour, Raising the drooping soul, as dews the withered flower. IV. Sigh on thou breeze, and ye, light leaves, that make And fill with sounds of peace each rustling brake; I would not change the strains which ye bestow, For all that art can teach-for all that skill can shew. J. F. H. BORRODAILE. BY BARRY CORNWALL. THE Gulfs of Borrodaile !-My soul delights Nor streams of silver, such as Echo once Haunted; or on whose banks the Wood-nymphs played; Or pensive pale Narcissus loved to lie. But here a wilful, riotous torrent comes Mad from the mountains, and when July drought The muttering river drags its lazy course, And makes hoarse discord with the rocks and stones. No solitary tree puts forth its head, Nor flowering shrub: the palmy fern' has left A place so desolate; and the clinging moss The last friend of the desart, here has died! SONNET TO THE SWALLOW TRIBE. BY THE AUTHOR OF SOLITARY WALKS THROUGH WHITE-bosomed strangers, wandering tribe, that bring I To shew us your red beak, and purple wing? |