Thy years a halcyon train

Of blessings smiling round; That bliss I sought in vain

To find-by thee be found:

May love and friendship bless thee,
Nor woe nor want oppress thee.

Tho' others' emblem be

The deadly cypress shade,

Be thine the citron tree

That knows not how to fade;

But, through each change of weather, Bears fruit and flowers together.

Thy childhood be as gay

As spring-tide just begun;

Thy youth a bright May day,

And ardent as its sun;

Thy prime, midsummer-sweeping

O'er harvests ripe and reaping.

Nor let thy sun's decline

One noble thought assuage;

But rather, like old wine,
Grow generous with age:
Thro' life thy soul be chainless,
In death thy name be stainless.

And when he who writes this verse Shall smile not nor repine,

Be thou beside his hearse

He could not look on thine!

And, when thy shroud is o'er thee, May a son of thine deplore thee.

FAREWELL

Farewell! farewell! but oh to thee

This fervent wish is breathed with pain,

For who can tell if ever we

May meet on earth again?

When, like the clouds of winter day,
My hopes were driving to their doom,
Thou wast upon my pilgrim way,

A sunburst in the gloom.

But now I feel a deeper shade

Than earlier grief had o'er me thrown; Thy parting tears the truth betrayed

I do not weep alone!

Farewell! farewell! but oh, to thee

This fervent wish is breathed with pain;

For who can tell if ever we

May meet on earth again?

H

ΤΟ

A BEAUTIFUL IRISHWOMAN

MET UNDER PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES, AND ONLY FOR

A FEW MOMENTS.

O Lady! though on many a shore
My soul hath basked in beauty's light,
I never did believe before

That love could triumph at first sight:

And still in sceptic pride I might
Have wandered on, secure and free,
But love, indignant at the slight,
Convinced me by one glance of thee.