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·POEMS.

·Cambridge:
PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY I'RESS.

·POEMS
BY
FREDERIC W. H. MYERS.
Vassi in Sanico, c discendesi in Noli:
Muntasi 512 Bismantova in cacume
Con esso i pie ; ma qui convien ch'uom voli:
Dico con l'ali nello e con le piume
Del gian disio, diretro a quel condotto,
Che speranza mi dava, e facea lume.
l'urgatori, IV. 25.
London and Cambridge :
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1870.
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·A third Edition of ‘S. Paul' being required I publish with it four poems which have already appcared in Macmillan's Magazine' and some hitherto unpublished pieces. MARCU, :870.

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·CONTENTS. PAGE S. PAUL I 0 49 S. JOHN THE BAPTIST. FINAL PERSEVERANCE THE TRANSLATION OF FAITH 70 74 A SONG 84 86 Two SISTERS. LOVE AND FAITH 90 FRIENDSHIP AND HOPE 93 οίκοθεν οίκαδε 96 SIMMENTHAL. 100 ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD 103 ON AN INVALID 104 FROM ALFRED DE MUSSET 108 RETROSPECT. I10 ANTE DIEM 112 ·viii CONTENTS PAGE WIND, MOON ANJ) TIDES 115 PARIS A MACON 117 PRAYER. 119 WOULD GOD IT WERE EVENINC I20 WOULD GOD IT WERE MORNING 121 IMMORTALITY. 122 AFTER AN INTERVIEW, 124 126 PALLIDA MORTE FUTURA A CHILD OF THE AGE. 128 . A VISION. 130 SOLOMON 133 LOVER'S SONG. 135 SUNRISE 137 FRAGMENTS 141 A LAST APPEAL . .144

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·SAINT PAUL.
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor frec, there
is neither malc nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
CHRIST! I am Christ's ! and let the name suffice you,
Ay, for me too He greatly hath sufficed:
Lo with no winning words I would entice you,
Paul has no honour and no friend but Christ.
Yes, without cheer of sister or of daughter,
Yes, without stay of father or of son,
Lone on the land and homeless on the water
Pass I in patience till the work be done.
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SAINT PAUL,
Yet not in solitude if Christ anear me
Waketh him workers for the great employ,
Oh not in solitude, if souls that hear me
Catch from my joyaunce the surprise of joy.
Hearts I have won of sister or of brother
Quick on the earth or hidden in the sod,
Lo every heart awaitcth me, another
Friend in the blameless family of God.
What was their sweet desire and subtle yearning,
Lovers, and ladies whom their song enrols ?
Faint to the flame which in my breast is burning,
Less than the love with which I ache for souls.
Oh ye are kind, I shall abide and teach you,
Ye will not fail as men have failed before,
Seek me and leave, ashamed when I beseech you,
Ever less loving as I love the more.

·SAINT PAUL.
3
Yet it was well, and Thou hast said in season
"As is the master shall the servant be':
Let me not subtly slide into the treason,
Seeking an honour which they gave not Thee;
Never at even, pillowed on a pleasure,
Sleep with the wings of aspiration furled,
Hide the last mite of the forbidden treasure,
Keep for my joys a world within the world,
Nay but much rather let me late returning
Bruised of my brethren, wounded from within,
Stoop with sad countenance and blushes burning,
Bitter with weariness and sick with sin :-
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·SAINT PAUL.
So to thy presence get me and reveal it,
Nothing ashamed of tears upon thy feet,
Show the sore wound and beg thine hand to heal it,
Pour thee the bitter, pray thee for the sweet.
Then with a ripple and a radiance thro' me
Rise and be manifest, o Morning Star!
Flow on my soul, thou Spirit, and renew me,
Fill with Thyself, and let the rest be far.
Safe to the hidden house of thine abiding
Carry the weak knees and the heart that faints,
Shield from the scorn and cover from the chiding,
Give the world joy, but patience to the saints.

·SAINT PAUL.
Saint, did I say? with your remembered faces,
Dear men and women, whom I sought and slew !
Ah when we mingle in the heavenly places
How will I weep to Stephen and to you !
Oh for the strain that rang to our reviling
Still, when the bruised limbs sank upon the sod,
Oh for the eyes that looked their last in smiling,
Last on this world here, but their first on God!

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SAINT PAUL..
Let no man think that sudden in a minute
All is accomplished and the work is done ;-
Though with thine earliest dawn thou shouldst begin it
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Scarce were it ended in thy setting sun.
Oh the regret, the struggle and the failing !
Oh the days desolate and useless years!
Vows in the night, so fierce and unavailing !
Stings of my shame and passion of my tears !

·SAINT PAUL.
7
How have I seen in Araby Orion,
Seen without seeing, till he set again,
Known the night-noise and thunder of the lion,
Silence and sounds of the prodigious plain !
How have I knelt with arms of my aspiring
Lifted all night in irresponsive air,
Dazed and amazed with overmuch desiring,
Blank with the utter agony of prayer!
Shame on the flame so dying to an ember!
Shame on the reed so lightly overset!
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Yes, I have seen him, can I not remember?
Yes, I have known him, and shall Paul forget?
I, even I who from the fleshly prison
Caught, (I believe it but I dare not say,)
Rose to the mid light of the Lord arisen,
Woke to the waking rapture of the day,

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SAINT PAUL.
Ah they are shut, the ears of my divining,
Sealed are the eyes that should have seen Him then :
Look what a beam from the Beloved shining !
Look what a night of treasonable men!
What was their tale of some one on a summit,
Looking, I think, upon the endless sea, -
One with a fate, and sworn to overcome it,
One who was fettered and who should be free?
Round him a robe, for shaming and for searing,
Ate with empoisonment and stung with fire,
He thro' it all was to his lord uprearing
Desperate patience of a brave desire.
Ay and for me there shot from the beginning
Pulses of passion broken with my breath;
Oh thou poor soul, enwrapped in such a sinning,
Bound in the shameful body of thy death!

·SAINT PAUL.
Well, let me sin, but not with my consenting,
Well, let me die, but willing to be whole :
Never, o Christ,--so stay me from relenting,
Shall there be truce betwixt my flesh and soul.

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SAINT PAUL.
Oft shall that flesh impcril and outweary
Soul that would stay it in the straiter scope,
Oft shall the chill day and the even dreary
Force on my heart the frenzy of a hope :-
Lo as some ship, outworn and overladen,
Strains for the harbour where her sails are furled ;
Lo as some innocent and eager maiden
Leans o'er the .wistful limit of the world,
Dreams of the glow and glory of the distance,
Wonderful wooing and the grace of tears,
Dreams with what eyes and what a sweet insistance
Lovers are waiting in the hidden years :

·SAINT PAUL.
Lo as some venturer, from his stars receiving
Promise and presage of sublime emprise,
Wears evermore the seal of his believing
Deep in the dark of solitary eyes,
Yea to the end, in palace or in prison,
Fashions his fancies of the realm to be,
Fallen from the height or from the deeps arisen,
Ringed with the rocks and sundered of the sea :-
So even I, and with a heart more burning,
So even I, and with a hope more sweet,
Groan for the hour, o Christ! of thy returning,
Faint for the flaming of thine advent feet.

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SAINT PAUL.
What can we do, o'er whom the unbeholden
Hangs in a night with which we cannot cope?
What but look sunward, and with faces golden
Speak to each other softly of a hope?
Can it be true, the grace He is declaring ?
Oh let us trust Him, for his words are fair!
Man, what is this, and why art thou despairing ?
God shall forgive thee all but thy despair.
Truly He cannot, after such assurance,
Truly He cannot and He shall not fail ;
Nay, they are known, the hours of thine endurance,
Daily thy tears are added to the tale:

·SAINT PAUL.
13
Never a sigh of passion or of pity,
Never a wail for weakness or for wrong,
Has not its archive in the angels' city,
Finds not its echo in the endless song.
Not as one blind and deaf to our beseeching,
Neither forgetful that we are but dust,
Not as from heavens too high for our up-reaching,
Coldly sublime, intolerably just :-
Nay but thou knewest us, Lord Christ thou knowest,
Well thou rem
memberest our feeble frame,
Thou canst conceive our highest and our lowest,
Pulses of nobleness and aches of shame.
Therefore have pity !_not that we accuse thee,
Curse thee and die and charge thee with our woe:
Not thro' thy fault, o Holy One, we lose thee,
Nay, but our own,--yet hast thou made us so !

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SAINT PAUL.
Then tho' our foul and limitless transgression
Grows with our growing, with our breath began,
Raise thou the arms of endless intercession,
Jesus, divinest when thou most art man !

·SAINT PAUL.
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Also I ask, but ever from the praying
Shrinks my soul backward, eager and afraid,
Point me the sum and shame of my betraying,
Show me, o Love, thy wounds which I have made !
Yes, thou forgivest, but with all forgiving
Canst not renew mine innocence again :
Make thou, o Christ, a dying of my living,
Purge from the sin but never from the pain !
So shall all speech of now and of to-morrow,
All he hath shown me or shall show me yet,
Spring from an infinite and tender sorrow,
Burst from a burning passion of regret :

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SAINT PAUL.
Standing afar I summon you anigh him,
Yes, to the multitudes I shout and say,
*This is my King! I preach and I deny him,
Christ! whom I crucify anew to-day.'

·SAINT PAUL.
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See, when a fireship in mid ocean blazes
Lone on the battlements & swimmer stands,
Looks for a help, and findeth not, and raises
High for a moment melancholy hands;
Then the sad ship, to her own funeral flaring,
Holds him no longer in her arms, for he
Simple and strong and desolate and daring
Leaps to the great embraces of the sea.
So when around me for my soul's affrighting,
Madly red-litten of the woe within,
Faces of men and deeds of their delighting
Stare in a lurid cruelty of sin,

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SAINT PAUL,
Thus as I weary me and long and languish,
Nowise availing from that pain to part,-
Desperate tides of the whole great world's anguish
Forced thro' the channels of a single heart,
Then let me feel how infinite around me
Floats the eternal peace that is to be,
Rush from the demons, for my King has found me,
Leap from the universe and plunge in Thee!

·SAINT PAUL.
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Thou with strong prayer and very much entreating
Willest be asked, and thou shalt answer then,
Show the hid heart beneath creation beating,
Smile with kind eyes and be a man with men.
Were it not thus, o King of my salvation,
Many would curse to thee and I for one,
Fling thee thy bliss and snatch at thy damnation,
Scorn and abhor the shining of the sun,
Ring with a reckless shivering of laughter
Wroth at the woe which thou hast seen so long,
Question if any recompense hereafter
Waits to atone the intolerable wrong:
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SAINT PAUL.
Is there not wrong too bitter for atoning?
What are these desperate and hideous years ?
Hast Thou not heard Thy whole creation groaning,
Sighs of the bondsmen, and a woman's tears ?
Yes, and to her, the beautiful and lowly,
Mary a maiden, separate from men,
Camest thou nigh and didst possess her wholly,
Close to thy saints, but thou wast closer then.
Once and for ever didst thou show thy chosen,
Once and for ever magnify thy choice;-
Scorched in love's fire or with his freezing frozen,
Lift up your hearts, ye humble, and rejoice!
Not to the rich He came and to the ruling,
(Men full of meat, whom wholly He abhors)
Not to the fools grown insolent in fooling
Most, when the lost are dying at the doors ;

·SAINT PAUL.
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Nay but to her who with a sweet thanksgiving
Took in tranquillity what God might bring,
Blessed Him and waited, and within her living
Felt the arousal of a Holy Thing.
Ay for her infinite and endless honour
Found the Almighty in this flesh a tomb,
Pouring with power the Holy Ghost upon her,
Nothing disdainful of the Virgin's womb.

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SAINT PAUL.
East the forefront of habitations holy
Gleamed to Engedi, shone to Eneglaim:
Softly thereout and from thereunder slowly
Wandered the waters, and delayed, and came.
Then the great stream, which having seen he showeth,
Hid from the wise but manifest to him,
Flowed and arose, as when Euphrates floweth,
Rose from the ankles till a man might swim.
Even with so soft a surge and an increasing,
Drunk of the sand and thwarted of the clod,
Stilled and astir and checked and never-ceasing
Spreadeth the great wave of the grace of God;

·SAINT PAUL.
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Bears to the marishes and bitter places
Healing for hurt and for their poisons balm,
Isle after isle in infinite embraces
Floods and enfolds and fringes with the palm.
Ay and afar to 'realms and to recesses
Seen in a storm, discovered in a dream,
Fields which no folk nor any power possesses,
Oceans ungirdled of the ocean-stream:
Yes or if loose and free, as some are telling,
(Little I know it and I little care,)
This my poor lodge, my transitory dwelling,
Swings in the bright deep of the endless air,
Round it and round His prophets shall proclaim Him,
Springing thenceforth and hurrying therethro',
Each to the next the generations name Him,
Honour unendingly and know anew.

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SAINT PAUL.
Great were his fate who on the earth should linger,
Sleep for an age and stir himself again,
Watching Thy terrible and fiery finger
Shrivel the falsehood from the souls of men.
Oh that thy steps among the stars would quicken!
Oh that thine ears would hear when we are dumb !
Many the hearts from which the hope shall sicken,
Many shall faint before thy kingdom come.
Lofor the dawn, (and wherefore wouldst thou screen it?)
Lo with what eyes, how eager and alone,
Seers for the sight have spent themselves, nor seen it,
Kings for the knowledge, and they have not known.

·SAINT PAUL.
Times of that ignorance with eyes that slumbered
Seeing He saw not, till the days that are,
Now, many multitudes whom none hath numbered,
Seek Him and find Hím, for He is not far.
Ay and ere now, a triumph and a token,
Flown o'er the severance of the sundering deep,
Came there who called, and with the message spoken
Followed the winging of the ways of sleep.
Ay and ere now above the shining city
Full of all knowledge and a God unknown
Stood I and spake, and passion of my pity
Drew Him from heaven and showed Him to His own.

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SAINT PAUL.
Heard
ye
of her who faint beneath the burthen
Strained to the cross and in its shadow fell?
Love for a love, the angels' for the earthen,
Lord and Redeemer, surely it was well!
She as one wild, whom very stripes enharden,
Leapt many times from torture of a dream,
Shrank by the loathly olives of the garden,
Groves of a teacher, and Ilissus' stream:
Then to their temple Damaris would clamber,
High where an idol till the dawn was done
Bright in a light and eminent in amber
Caught the serene surprises of the sun.
Thence the strong soul, which never power can pinion,
Sprang with a wail into the empty air,
Thence the wide eyes upon a hushed dominion
Looked in a fierce astonishment of prayer:

·SAINT PAUL.
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Looked to Hymettus and the purple heather,
Looked to Peiræus and the purple sea,
Blending of waters and of winds together,
Winds that were wild and waters that were free.
So from the soft air, infinite and pearly,
Breathed a desire with which she could not cope,
Could not, methinks, so eager and so early,
Chant to her loveliness the dirge of hope:
Could not have done with weeping and with laughter
Leaving men angry and sweet love unknown,
Could not go forth upon a blank hereafter
Weak and a woman, aimless and alone.
Therefore with set face and with smiling bitter
Took she the anguish, carried it apart -
Ah, to what friend to speak it? it were fitter
Thrust in the aching hollows of her heart.

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SAINT PAUI..
Then I preached Christ: and when she heard the
story,
Oh, is such triumph possible to men ?
Never, my King, had I beheld Thy glory,
Never had known Thinc excellence till then.
Thou from on high perceivest it were better
All men and women should on earth be free:
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Laws that blaspheme and tyrannies that fetter
Snap and evanish at the touch of Thee.
Where is the soul with which thou wilt not tarry,
Raise from her nothingness and love her long?
His, shall I say? who to the end must carry
Hid in his body the extremest wrong?
Nay, but for him a birth and a baptizing
Came in the fair flow of the stranger stream,
Whence he arose as when a seer arising
Wears in his eyes the wonder of a dream.

·SAINT PAUL.
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Gone was the saint, nor staying for another,
Home thro' the wilderness he read and ran,
Bought and adopted, and in Christ a brother,
Claimed and completed, and in Christ a man.

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SAINT PAUL.
Once for the least of children of Manasses
God had a mission and a deed to do,
Wherefore the welcome that all speech surpasses
Called him and hailed him greater than he knew;
Asked him no more, but took him as he found him,
Filled him with valour, slung him with a sword,
Bade him go on until the tribes around him
Mingled his name with naming of the Lord.
Also of John a calling and a crying
Rang in Bethabara till strength was spent,
Cared not for counsel, stayed not for replying,
John had one message for the world, Repent.

·SAINT PAUL.
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John, than which man a saddler or a greater
Not till this day has been of woman born,
John like some iron peak by the Creator
Fired with the red glow of the rushing morn.
This when the sun shall rise and overcome it
Stands in his shining desolate and bare,
Yet not the less the inexorable summit
Flamed him his signal to the happier air.
This is His will: He takes and He refuses,
Finds him ambassadors whom men deny,
Wise ones nor mighty for his saints He chooses,
No, such as John or Gideon or I.
He as He wills shall solder and shall sunder,
Slay in a day and quicken in an hour,
Tune him a chorus from the Sons of Thunder,
Forge and transform my passion into power.

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SAINT PAUL.
Ay, for this Paul, a scorn and a reviling,
Weak as you know him and the wretch you see,
Even in these eyes shall ye behold His smiling,
Strength in infirmities and Christ in me,

·SAINT LAUL.
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Often for me between the shade and splendour
Ceos and Tenedos at dawn were grey,
Welling of waves, disconsolate and tender,
Sighed on the shore and waited for the day.
Then till the bridegroom from the east advancing
Smote him a waterway and flushed the lawn
God with sweet strength, with terror, and with trancing,
Spake in the purple niystery of dawn.
Oh what a speech, and greater than our learning !
Scarcely remembrance can the joy renew;
What were they then, the sights of our discerning,
Sorrows we suffer, and the deeds we do?
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SAINT PAUL.
Lo every one of them was sunk and swallowed,
Morsels and motes in the eternal sea;
Far was the call, and farther as I followed
Grew there a silence round the Lord and me.

·SAINT PAUL.
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Oh could I tell ye surely would believe it!
Oh could I only say what I have seen!
How should I tell or how can ye receive it,
How, till He bringeth you where I have been?
Therefore, o Lord, I will not fail nor falter,
Nay but I ask it, nay but I desire,
Lay on my lips thine cmbers of the altar,
Seal with the sting and furnish with the fire ;
Give me a voice, a cry and a complaining,
Oh let my sound be stormy in their ears !
Throat that would shout but cannot stay for straining,
Eyes that would weep but cannot wait for tears.
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SAINT PAIL.
Quick in a moment, infinite for over,
Send an arousal better than I pray,
Give me a grace upon the faint endeavour,
Souls for my hire and Pentecost to clay!

·S.1721T PAUL.
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Lo as some bard on isles of the Aegean
Lovely and cager when the carth was young,
Burning to hurl his heart into a paean,
Praise of the hero from whose loins he sprung;
He, I suppose, with such a care to carry,
Wandered Jisconsolate and waited long,
Smiting his breast, wherein the notes would tarry,
Chiding the slumber of the seed of song:
Then in the sudden glory of a minute
Airy and excellent thc proöm came,
Rending his bosom, for a god was in it,
Waking the seed, for it had burst in flame.

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SAINT LAUL.
So even I athirst for his inspiring,
I who have talked with Him forget again,
Yes, many days with sobs and with desiring
Offer to God a patience and a pain;
Then thro' the mid complaint of my confession,
Then thro' the pang and passion of my prayer,
Leaps with a start the shock of his possession,
Thrills me and touches, and the Lord is there.
Lo if some pen should write upon your rafter
Mene and mcne in the folds of flame,
Think you could any memories thereafter
Wholly retrace the couplet as it came?
Lo if some strange intelligible thunder
Sang to the earth the secret of a star,
Scarce could ye catch, for terror and for wonder,
Shreds of the story that was pealed so far:

·SAINT FAUL.
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Scarcely I catch the words of his revealing,
Hardly I hear Him, dimly understand,
Only the lower that is within me pealing
Lives on my lips and beckons to my hand.
Whoso has felt the Spirit of the Highest
Cannot confound nor doubt Him nor deny:
Yca with one voice, o world, tho' thou deniest,
Stand thou on that side, for on this am I.
Rather the carth shall doubt when her retrieving
Pours in the rain and rushes from the sod,
Rather than he for whom the great conceiving
Stirs in his soul to quicken into God.
Ay, tho' thou then shouldst strike him from his glory
Blind and tormented, maddened and alone,
Even on the cross would he maintain his story,
Yes and in hell would whisper, I have known.

·SAINT PAUL.
God, who at sundry times in manners many
Spake to the fathers and is speaking still,
Eager to find if ever or if any
Souls will obey and hearken to His will, --
Who that one moment has the least descried Him,
Dimly and faintly, hidden and afar,
Doth not despise all excellence beside Him,
Pleasures and powers that are not and that are,-

·SAINT PAUL.
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Ay amid all men bear himself thereafter
Smit with a solemn and a sweet surprise,
Dumb to their scorn and turning on their laughter
Only the dominance of earnest eyes ?-
God, who whatever frenzy of our fretting
Vexes sad life to spoil and to destroy,
Lendeth an hour for peace and for forgetting,
Setteth in pain the jewel of his joy -
Gentle and faithful, tyrannous and tender,
Ye that have known Him, is He sweet to know?
Soſtly he touches, for the reed is slender,
Wisely enkindles, for the flame is low.
God, who when Enoch on the carth was holy
Saved him from death and Noe from the sea,
Planned Him a purpose that should ripen slowly,
Found in Chaldaea the elect Chaldee,

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SAINT PAUL.
God, who for sowing of the seed thereafter
Called him from Charran, summoned him from Ur,
Gave to his wife a weeping and a laughter,
Light to the nations and a son for her,-
God, who in Israel's bondage and bewailing
Heard them and granted them their heart's desire,
Clave them the deep with power and with prevailing,
Gloomed in the cloud and glowed into the fire,
Fed them with manna, furnished with a fountain,
Followed with waves the raising of the rod,
Drew them and drave, till Moses on the mountain
Died of the kisses of the lips of God,
God, who was not in earth when it was shaken,
Could not be found in fury of the flame,
Then to his seer, the faithful and forsaken,
Softly was manifest and spake by name,

·SAINT PAUL.
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Showed him a remnant barred from the betrayal,
Close in his Carmel, where the caves are dim,
So many knees that had not bent to Baal,
So many mouths that had not kissed him,-
God, who to glean the vineyard of his choosing
Sent them evangelists till day was done,
Bore with the churls, their wrath and their refusing,
Gave at the last the glory of His Son :-
Lo as in Eden when the days were seven
Pison thro' Havilah that softly ran
Bare on his breast the changes of the heaven,
Felt on his shores the silence of a man:
Silence, for Adam when the day departed
Left him in twilight with his charge to keep
Careless and confident and single-hearted
Trusted in God and turned himself to sleep :

·SAINT PAUL.
Then in the midnight stirring in his slumber
Opened his vision on the heights and saw
New without name or ordinance or number,
Set for a marvel, silent for an awe,
Stars in the firmament above him beaming,
Stars in the firmament, alive and free,
Stars, and of stars the innumerablc streaming,
Deep in the deeps, a river in the sea;
These as he watched thro' march of their arising,
Many in multitudes and one by one,
Somewhat from God with a superb surprising
Breathed in his eyes the promise of the sun.
So tho' our Daystar from our sight be taken,
Gone from his brethren, hidden from his own,
Yet in his sctting are we not forsaken,
Suffer not shadows of the dark alone.

·SAINT PAUL.
45
Not in the west is Thine appearance ended,
Neither from night shall Thy renewal be,
Lo, for the firmament in spaces splendid
Lighteth her beacon-fires ablaze for Thee:
Holds them and hides and crowns them and discovers,
Throngs them together, kindles them afar,
Sheweth, o Love, Thy multitude of lovers,
Souls that shall know Thee and the saints that are.
Look what a company of constellations !
Say can the sky so many lights contain?
IIath the great earth these endless generations ?
Are there so many purified thro' pain?
These thro' all glow and eminence of glory
Cry for a brighter, who delayeth long :
Star unto star the everlasting story
Peals in a mystic sanctity of song,

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SAINT PAUL.
Witness the hour when many saints assembled
Waited the Spirit, and the Spirit came;
Ay with hearts tremulous and house that trembled,
Ay with cleft tongues, and the Holy Ghost, and flame.
Witness the men whom with a word He gaineth,
Bold who were base and voiceful who were dumb:-
Battle, I know, so long as life remaineth,
Battle for all, but these have overcome.
Witness the women, of His children sweetest,
Scarcely earth seeth them but carth shall see,-
Thou in their woe Thine agony completest,
Christ, and their solitude is nigh to Thee.
What is this psalm from pitiable places
Glad where the messengers of peace have trod ?
Whose are these beautiful and holy faces
Lit with their loving and aflame with God? .

·SAINT PAUL.
47
Eager and faint, empassionate and lonely,
These in their hour shall prophesy again :
This is His will who hath endured, and only
Sendeth the promise where He sends the pain.
Ay unto these distributeth the Giver
Sorrow and sanctity, and loves them well,
Grants them a power and passion to deliver
Hearts from the prison-house and souls from hell.
Thinking hereof I wot not if the portal
Opeth already to my Lord above :
Lo there is no more mortal and immortal,
Nought is on earth or in the heavens but love.
Hark what a sound, and too divine for hearing,
Stirs on the earth and trembles in the air !
Is it the thunder of the Lord's appearing?
Is it the music of His people's prayer?

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Surely He cometh, and a thousand voices
Shout to the saints and to the deaf are dumb;
Surely He cometh, and the earth rejoices
Glad in His coming who hath sworn, I comc.
This hath He done and shall we not adore Him?
This shall He do and can we still despair?
Come let us quickly fling ourselves before Him,
Cast at his feet the burthen of our care,
Flash from our eyes the glow of our thanksgiving,
Glad and regretful, confident and calm,
Then thro' all life and what is after living
Thrill to the tireless music of a psalm.
Yea thro' life, death, thro' sorrow and thro' sinning
He shall suffice me, for He hath sufficed :
Christ is the end, for Christ was the beginning,
Christ the beginning, for the end is Christ.

·SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST.
"And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be oftended in Me."
10 Jesus, if one minute, if one hour!
Thou wouldst come hitherward and speak with John!
Nay, but be present only, nay, but come:
And I shall look, and as I look on thee
Find in thine eyes the answer and the end.
And I am he who once in Nazareth,
A child, nor knowing yet the prophet's woe,
In childly fashion sought thee, and even then
Perceived a mute withdrawal, open eyes
That drooped not for caressing, brows that knew
Dominion, and the babe already king.
Ah Mary, but thou also, thou as I,
With eager tremulous humilities,
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With dumb appeal and tears that dared not flow,
Hast laid thy loving arms about the boy,
And clasped him wistfully and felt him far.
And ever as I grew his loveliness
Grew with me, and the yearning turned to pain.
Then said I,-“Nay, my friends, no need is now
For John to tarry with you; I have seen,
I have known him; I go hence, and all alone
I carry Jesus with me till I die.”
And that same day, being past the Passover,
I gat me to the desert, and stayed to see
Joseph and Mary holding each a hand
Of one that followed meekly; and I was gone,
And with strange beasts in the great wilderness
I laid me, fearing nothing, and hardly knew
On what rough meat in what unwonted ways
I throve, or how endured the frost and fire;
But moaned and carried in my heart for him

·SAINT JOIN TIIE BAPTIST.
A first and holy passion, boy for boy,
And loved the hills that look on Nazareth
And every fount that pours upon the plain.
Then once with trembling knees and heart afire
I ran, I sought him: but my Lord at home
Bright in the full face of the dawning day
Stood at his carpentry, and azure air
Inarched him, scattered with the glittering green:
I saw him standing, I saw his face, I saw
His even eyebrows over eyes grey-blue,
From whence with smiling there looked out on me
A welcome and a wonder,-"Mine so soon?"-
Ah me, how sweet and unendurable
Was that confronting beauty of the boy!
Jesus, thou knowest I had no answer then,
But leapt without a word, and flung away,
And dared not think thereof, and looked no more.

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And after that with wonder rose in me
Strange speech of early prophets, and a tale
First learnt and last forgotten, song that fell
With worship from the lonely Israelites,
Simcon and Anna, for these twain as one
Fast by the altar and in the courts of God
Led a long age in fair expectancy.
For all about them swept the hecdless folk,
Unholy folk and market merchandise,
They each from each took courage, and with prayer
Made ready for the coming of a King.
So, when the waves of Noe on forest and hill
Ran ruinous, and all herbs had lost the life
Of greenness and the memory of air,
The cedar-trees alone on Lebanon
Spread steadfastly invulnerable arms.
That was no sleep when clear the vision came,

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Bright in the night and truer than the day :-
For there with brows newborn and locks that flew
Was Adam, and his eyes remembered God;
And Eve, already fallen, already in woe,
Knowing a lovelier promise for the pain;
And after these, unknown, unknowable,
The grave gigantic visage of dead men,
With looks that are not ours, with speech to say
That no man dares interpret; then I saw
A maiden such as countrymen afield
Greet reverently, and love her as they see;
And after that a boy with face so fair,
With such a glory and a wonder in it,
I grieved to find him born upon the earth
To man's life and the heritage of sin;
And last of all that Mary whom I knew
Stood with such parted lips and face a-glow
As long-since when the angel came to her;

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And all these pointed forward, and I know
That each was prophet and singer and sire and seer,
That each was priest and mother and maid and king,
With longing for the babe of Nazareth,
For that man-child who should be born and reign.
And once again I saw him, in latter days
Fraught with a deeper meaning, for he came
To my baptizing, and the infinite air
Blushed on his coming, and all the earth was still;
Gently he spakc; I answered; God from heaven
Called, and I hardly heard him, such a love
Streamed in that orison from man to man.
Then shining from his shoulders either-way
Fell the flood Jordan, and his kingly eyes
Looked in the east, and star-like met the sun.
Once in no manner of similitude,
And twice in thunderings and thrice in flame,
The Highest ere now hath shown him secretly;

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But when from heaven the visible Spirit in air
Came verily, lighted on him, was alone,
Then knew I, then I said it, then I saw
God in the voice and glory of a man.
And one will say, “And wilt thou not forget
The unkindly king that hath forgotten thee?"
Nay, I remember; like my sires who sat
Faithful and stubborn by Euphrates' stream,
Nor in their age forgot Jerusalem,
Nor reared their children for another joy.
O Jesus, if thou knewest, if thou couldst know,
How in my heart through sleep and pain and prayer
Thy royalty remaineth ; how thy name
Falls from my lips unbidden, and the dark
Is thick with lying shades that are not thou,
Couldst thou imagine it, o tender soul!
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I should not only hear of dumb that sing
And lame that leap around thee, and all thy ways
Joyful, and on thy breast another John.
How should I not remember? Is dusk of day
Forgetful, or the winter of the sun?
Have these another glory? or whom have I
In all the world but Jesus for my love?
Whereinsoever breath may rise and die
Their generations follow on, and earth
Each in their kind replenisheth anew,
Only like him she bears not nor hath borne
One in her endless multitude of men.
And these were ever about me; morn by morn
Mine eyes again desired him, and I saw
The thronging Hebrews thicken, and my heart
Sank, and the prophet served another day.
Yet sometimes when by chance the rulers came,

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Encharnelled in their fatness, men that smile,
Sit in high seats, and swell with their desire,
My strong limbs shook, and my heart leapt and fell
With passion of sheer scorn, with speech that slew,
With glances that among them running dealt
Damnation, as on Egypt ran the flame.
For such men never when I look on them
Can keep their pride or smiling, but their brow
Droops from its base dominion, and their voice
Rings hollower with a stirring fear within,
Till flushes chill to paleness, and at length
From self-convicted eyes evanishcth
The false and fickle lumour of their joy.
For quick and fitfully with feast and song
Men make a tumult round them, and console
With sudden sport a momentary woe;
But if thou take one hence, and set him down
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Or swimming at night alone upon the sea,
His lesser life falls from him, and the dream
Is broken which had held him unaware,
And with a shudder he feels his naked soul
In the great black world face to face with God.
This also for that miserable man
Is a worse trouble than his heart can know,
That in the strait and sodden ways of sin
He has made him alien to the plenteous day,
Cut off from friendliness with woods that wave
And happy pasture and carousing sea,
And whatsoever loving things enjoy
Simply the kind simplicity of God.
For these are teachers; not in vain his seers
Have dwelt in solitudes and known that God
High up in open silence and thin air
More presently reveals him, having set
His chiefest temples on the mountain-tops,

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His kindling altar in the hearts of men.
And these I knew with peace and lost with pain,
And oft for whistling wind and desert air
Lamented, and in dreams was my desire
For the flood Jordan, for the running sound
And broken glitters of the midnight moon.
But now all this fades from me, and the life
Of prophecy, and summers that I knew.
Yea, and though once I looked on many men,
And spake them sweet and bitter speech, and heard
Such secrets as a tempest of the soul .
Once in a lifetime washes black and bare
From desperate recesses of shut sin,
Yet all is quite forgotten, and to-day
From the strange past no sign remains with me
But simple and tremendous memories
Of morning and of even and of God.
Ah me, ah me,
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Gold or great wealth or marriage with a maid
How easily he wins her, having served
Seven years perchance, and counting that for gain;
But whoso wants God only and lets life go,
Seeks him with sorrow, and pursues him far,
And finds him weeping, and in no long time
Again the High and Unapproachable
Evanishing escapeth, and that man
Forgets the life and struggle of the soul,
Falls from his hope, and dreams it was a dream.
Yet back again perforce with sorrow and shame
Who once hath known him must return, nor long
Can cease from loving, nor endures alone
The dreadful interspace of dreams and clay,
Once quick with God; nor is content as those
Who look into each other's eyes and seek
To find one strong enough to uphold the earth,
Or sweet enough to make it heaven: aha,

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Whom seek they or whom find? for in all the world
There is none but thee, my God, there is none but thee.
And this it is that links together as one
The sad continual companies of men;
Not that the old carth stands, and Ararat
Endureth, and Euphrates till to-day
Remembers where God walked beside the strcam;
Nay rather that souls weary and hearts afire
Have everywhere besought him, everywhere
Have found and found him not; and age to age,
Though all else pass and fail, delivereth
At least the great tradition of their God.
For even thus on Ur and Mahanaim
By Asian rivers gathering to the sea,
When the huge stars shone gold, and dim and still
Dewed in the dusk the innocent yearlings lay,
With constant eyes the serious shepherd-men

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Renewed the old desiring, sought again
The mute eternal Presence; and for these
Albeit sometimes the sundering firmament
One moment to no bodily sense revealed
Unspeakably an imminence of love;-
Yet by no song have our forefathers known
To set the invisible in sight of men,
Nor in all years have any wisdom found
But patient hope and dumb humility.
Yea, Lord, I know it, teach me yet anew
With what a fierce and patient purity
I must confront the horror of the world.
For very little space on either hand
Parts the sane mind from madness; very soon
By the intenser pressure of one thought
Or clearer vision of one agony
The soothfast reason trembles, all things fade

·SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST.
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In blackness, and the demon enters in.
I would I never may be left of thee,
O God, my God, in whatsoever ill;
Be present while thou strikest, thus shall grow
At least a solemn patience with the pain ;-
When thou art gone, what is there in the world
Seems not dishonoured, desperate with sin?
The stars are threatful eyeballs, and the air
Hangs thick and heavy with the wrath of God,
And even pure pity in my heart congeals
To idle anger with thy ways and thee,
Nor any care for life remains to me,
Nor trust in love, nor fellowship with men,
But past my will the exasperated brain
Thinks bitter thoughts, and I no more am John.
It is not when man's heart is nighest heaven
He hath most need of servant-seraphim,-

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Albeit that height be holy and God be still,
And lifted up he dies with his desire,
That only once the Highest for dear love's sake
Would set himself in whispers of a man:-
Nay, but much rather when one flat on earth
Knows not which way to grovel, or where to flee
From the overmastering agony of sin,
Then his deed tears him till he find one pure
To know it and forgive: "For God," saith he,
“Still on the unjust sends unchangeable
These scornful boons of summer and of rain,
And howsoever I fall, in dawn and day
Drowns me, and splendidly ignores my sin.”
And how should pity and anger cease, or shame
Have done with blushes, till the prophet know
That God not yet hath quite despaired of men?
Oh that the heavens were rent and one came down
Who saw men's hurt with kindlier eyes than mine,

·SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST.
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Fiercelier than I resented every wrong,
Sweated more painful drops than these that flow
In nightly passion for my people's sin,-
Died with it, lived beyond it,-nay, what now?
If this indeed were Jesus, this the Lamb
Whom age by age the temple-sacrifice
Not vainly had prefigured, and if so
In one complete and sacred agony
He lifted all the weight of all the world,
And if men knew it, and if men clung to him
With desperate love and present memory,
I know not how,-till all things fail in fire;
That were enough, and, o my God, for them,
For them there might be peace, but not for me.
And even Elias often on the hills
Towered in a flaming sunset, sick at heart;
Often with bare breast on the dewy earth
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Lay all night long, and all night comfortless
Poured his abounding bitterness of soul :
I know that not without a wail hc bore
The solitude of prophets till that day
When death divine and unbelievable
Blazed in the radiant chariot and blown fire,
Whereof the very memory melts mine eyes
And holds my heart with wonder: can it be
That thus obscurely to his ministers
Jehovah portioneth eternal love?
Here in the hazardous joy of woman and man
Consider with how sad and eager eyes
They lean together, and part, and gaze again,
Regretting that they cannot in so brief time,
With all that sweet abandonment, outpour
Their flowing infinity of tenderness.
God's fashion is another; day by day
And year by year he tarrieth ; little need

·SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST.
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The Lord should hasten ; whom he loves the most
He seeks not oftenest, nor wooes him long,
But by denial quickens his desire,
And in forgetting best remembers him,
Till that man's heart grows humble and reaches out
To the least glimmer of the feet of God,
Grass on the mountain-tops, or the early note
Of wild birds in the hush before the day,
Wherever sweetly in the ends of the earth
Are fragments of a peace that knows not man.
Then on our utter weakness and the hush
Of hearts exhausted that can ache no more,
On such abeyance of self and swoon of soul
The Spirit hath lighted oft, and let men see
That all our vileness alters God no more
Than our dimmed eyes can quench the stars in
heaven:
From years ere years were told, through all the sins,
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Unknown sins of innumerable men,
God is himself for ever, and shows to-day,
As erst in Eden, the eternal hope.
Wherefore if anywise from mom to morn
I can endure a weary faithfulness,
From minute unto minute calling low
On God who once would answer, it may be
He hath a waking for me, and some surprise
Shall from this prison set the captive free
And love from fears and from the flesh the soul.
For even thus beside Gennesaret
In solemn night some denion-haunted man
Runs from himself, and nothing knows in heaven
But blackness, yet around him unaware
With standing hills and high expectancy,
With early airs and shuddering and calm,
The enormous morning quickens, and lake and tree

·SAINT JOHN TIIE BAPTIST.
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Perceive each other dimly in a dream :
And when at last with bodily frame forspent
He throws him on the beach to sleep or die,
That very inoment rises full and fair
Thy sun, o Lord, the sun that brings the day.
I wait it; I have spoken; even now
This hour may sct me in one place with God.
I hear a wantoning in Herod's hall,
And feet that seek me; very oft some chance
Leaps from the folly and the wine of kings;-
O Jesus, spirit and spirit, soul and soul,
O Jesus, I shall seek thee, I shall find,
My love, my master, find thee, though I be
Least, as I know, of all men woman-born.

·FINAL PERSEVERANCE.
Say is it true that if a soul up-springing
Once, -for I know not nor it matters when,-
Plainly hath heard the seraphs at their singing,
Clearly hath looked upon the Light of men,-
Say ye that afterward tho' fast and faster
Downward she travel, daily she decline,
Marred with defeat and broken with disaster,
Filled with the earth, forgetting the divine,

·FINAL PERSEVERANCE.
Yet shall the fiend not utterly undo her,
Cannot constrain her living in the grave, --
Cod at the last shall know her as he knew her,
Come as he came and as he sought shall save ?
Yes! tho' the darts exasperate and bloody
Fell on the fair side of Sebastian faint,
Think ye the round wounds and the gashes ruddy
Scar in God's house the beauty of the saint?
Who were the Lord to mock him and imprison,
Cheat with an endless agony of breath,
Bid him arise, and in his body risen
Carry the trouble and the pains of death?
No! if he wake it is a king's awaking
Fresh from the night and fairer for his rest:
Aye and the soul, to resurrection breaking,
Springs in her flower and blossoms at her best.

·FINAL PERSEVERANCE.
Then tho' the man with struggle and with straining
Find not the faith and passion of the boy,
Yet shall he march upon the years remaining
Clad with a bitter and courageous joy ;-
Morn after morn renewing the endeavour,
Eve after eve regretting : it is vain !
..
Ah the sea-snake! a demi-god forever
Smote it and slew it and it was not slain.-
So, while the great deep round the king and under
Rose to the blowiny, bellowed to the roar,
Fierce in the storm and fearless in the thunder
Sought he a sweet and visionary shore.
Once, as they say, in seeking it he found it,
Found in the sunset, lost it in the foam,
Westward and north and past it and around it
Fared in the homeless passion of a home.

·FINAL PERSEVERANCE.
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Then with great heart amid the sailors craven
Spake he: 'I leave you, be at rest again,
Sail without me for harbour and for haven,
Sail happy-hearted for your loves and Spain.'
So to the waves he leapt, but ere his leaping
Cried, 'Yet a hope ! there is a hope for me,
Soon shall my corse upon that isle be sleeping,
Washed by the welter of the friendly sea.'

·THE TRANSLATION OF FAITH.
I.
High in the midst the pictured Pentecost
Showed in a sign the coming of the Ghost,
And round about were councils blazoned
Called by the Fathers in a day long dead,
Who once therein, as well the limner paints,
Upbuilt the faith delivered to the saints.
Without the council-hall, in dawning day,
The mass of men had left a narrow way
i Public Session of the (Ecumenical Council, in St. Peter's
Rome, January 6 (Feast of the Epiphany), 1870.

·THE TRANSLATION OF FAITII.
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Where ever-burning lamps enlock the tomb
In golden glamour and in golden gloom.
There on the carth is peace, and in the air
An aspiration of eternal prayer ;
So many a man in immemorial years
Has scarcely seen that image for his tears,
So oft have women found themselves alone
With Christ and Mary on the well-worn stone.
Thereby the conclave of the bishops went,
With grave brows cherishing a dim intent,
As men who travelled on their eve of death
From every shore that man inhabiteth,
Not knowing wherefore, for the former things
Fade from old eyes of bishops and ot kings.
With crimson raiment one from Bozrah came,
On brow and breast the rubies flashed in flame;
And this from Tyre, from Tunis that, and he
From Austral islands and the Austral sea;

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And many a swarthy face and stern was there,
And many a man who knows deep things and rare,
Knows the Chaldaic and the Coptic rite,
The Melchian-Greek and Elio-Maronite,
Strange words of men who speak from long ago,
Lived not our lives, but what we know not know.
And some there were who never shall disdain
The Orders of their poverty and pain;
Amidst all pomp preferring for their need
The simple cowl and customary weed, -
Some white and Carmelite, and some alway
In gentle habit of Franciscan grey.
O Francis ! never may thy sainted name
Be thought or written save with soul aflame,
Nor spoken openly nor breathed apart
Without a stir and swelling of the heart ;-
O mate of Poverty! O pearl unpriced !
O co-espoused, co-transforate with Christ!

·TILE TRANSLATION OF FAITH.
And lo, the sovereign Pontiff, Holy Sire,
Fulfilled anew the Catholic desire;-
Beneath the scroll of Peter's charge unfurled
He sat him at the centre of the world,
Attending till the deeds of God began,
And the One Sacrifice was slain for man.
But yet to me was granted to behold
A greater glory than the Pontiff's gold ;--
To my purged eyes before the altar lay
A figure dreamlike in the noon of day;
Nor changed the still face, nor the look thereon,
At ending of the endless antiphon,
Nor for the summoned saints and holy hymn
Grew to my sight less delicate and dim :-
How faint, how fair that immaterial wraith!
But, looking long, I saw that she was Faith,

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II.
Last in the midst of all a patriarch came,
Whose nation none durst ask him, nor his name,
Yet 'mid the Eastern sires he seemed as one
Fire-nurtured at the springing of the sun,
And in robe's tint was likest-hued to them
Who wear the Babylonian diadem.
His brows black yet and white unfallen hair
Set in strange frame the face of his despair,
And I despised not, nor can God despise,
The silent splendid anger of his eyes.
A hundred years of search for flying Truth
Had left them glowing with no gleam of youth,
A hundied years of vast and vain desire
Ha 1 lit and filled them with consuming fire;
Therethrough I saw his fierce eternal soul
Gaze from beneath that argent aureole ;

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I saw him bow his hoar majestic head,
I heard him, and he murmured, “Faith is dead."
Through arch and avenue the rumour ran,
Shed from the mighty presence of the man ;
Through arch and avenue and vault and aisle
He cast the terror of his glance awhile,
Then rose at once and spake with hurrying breath,
As one who races with a racing Death.
"How long ago our fathers followed far
That false flame of the visionary star!
Oh better, better had it been for them
To have perished on the edge of Bethlehem,
Or cre they saw the comet stoop and stay,
And knew the shepherds, and became as they !
Better for us to have been, as men may be,
Sages and silent by the Eastern sea,
Than thus in new delusion to have brought
Myrrh of our prayer, frankincense of our thought,

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For Onc whom knowing not wc held so dear,
For One who sware it, but who is not here.
Better for you, this shrine when ye began,
An earthquake should have hidden it from man,
Than thus through centuries of pomp and pain
To have founded and have finished it in vain,-
To have vainly arched the labyrinthine shade,
And vainly vaulted it, and vainly made
For saints and kings an everlasting home
High in the dizzying glories of the dome.
Since not one minute over hall or Host
Flutters thc pcerless presence of the Ghost,
Nor falls at all, for art or man's device,
On mumbled charm and mumming sacrifice,--
But either cares not, or forspent with care
Has flown into the infinite of air.
Apollo left you when the Christ was born,
Jehovah when the temple's veil was torn,

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And now, cven now,
this last time and again,
The presence of a God has gone from men.
Live in your dreams, if ye must live, but I
Will find the light, and in the light will die."
III.
At that strange specch the sons of men amazed
Each on the other tremulously gazed,
When lo, herself,--herself the age to close,
From where she lay the very Faith arose ;
She stood as never she shall stand again,
And for an instant manifest to men:
In figure like the Mother maid who sees
The deepest heart of hidden mysteries,
On that strange night when from her cyes she shed
A holy glory on the painter's bed,
And Agnes and the angels hushed awhile,
Won by her sadness sweeter than a smile.
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Such form she wore, nor yet henceforth will care
That form, or form at all, on earth to wear;
For those sweet eyes, which once, with flag unfurled,
So many a prince would follow through the world,
That face, the light of dreams, the crown of day,
Lo, while we looked on her, was rapt away;
O mystic end and o evanished queen!
When shall we see thee as our sires have seen ?
And yet, translated from the Pontiff's side,
She did not die, o say not that she died !
She died not, die not, o the faint and fair!
She could not die, but melted into air.
In that high dome I neither know nor say
What Power and Presence was alive that day,
No, nor what Faith, in what transfigured forin,
Rode on the ghostly spaces of the storm :
For sight of cyes nor ear with hcaring knew

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That windless wind that where it listed blew;
Yet seeing eyes and cars that hear shall be
As dust and nothingness henceforth for me,
Who once have felt the blowing Spirit roll
Life on my life, and on my soul a Soul.
And first the conclave and the choir, and then
The immeasurable multitude of men,
Bowed and fell down, bowed and fell down, as though
A rushing mighty wind had laid them low;
Yea to all hearts a revelation came,
As flying thunder and as flying flame;
A moment then the vault above him seemed
To each man as the heaven that he had dreamed ;
A moment then the floor whereon he trod
Became the pavement of the courts of God;
And in the aisles was silence, in the dome
Silence, and no man knew that it was Rome.
ROME, January 7, 1870.
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·A SONG.
The pouring music, soft and strong,
Some God within her soul has lit,
Her face is rosy with the song
And her grey eyes are swcet with it.
A woman so with singing firer,
Has earth a lovelier sight than this?
Oh he that looked had soon desired
Her lips to fasten with a kiss.

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But love is life or love is sin,
I hate the pains beyond control;
Give me an hour for drinking in
Her fragrant and her carly soul.
To happier hearts I leave the rest,
Wło less and more than I shall know,
For me, the weary, it is best
To listen for an hour and go :
To lift her hand, and press, and part,
And think upon her long and long,
And bear for ever in my heart
The tender traces of a song.

·TWO SISTERS.
FIRST SISTER.
WHEN dusk descends and dews begin
She sees the forest ghostly fair,
And, half in heaven, is drinking in
The moonlit melancholy air :
The sons of God have charge and care
Her maiden grace from focs to keep,
And Jesus sends her unaware
A maiden sanctity of sleep.
SECOND SISTER.
In dreams, in dreams, with sweet surprise
I see the lord of all these things;
From night and nought with eager eyes
He comes, and in his coming sings :

·TIVO SISTERS.
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His gentle port is like a king's,
His open face is free and fair,
And lightly from his brow he flings
The young abundance of his hair.
FIRST SISTER.
Oh who hath watched her kneel to pray
In hours forgetful of the sun ?
Or seen beneath the dome of day
The hovering seraph seek the nun?
Her wcary years at last have won
A life from life's confusion free:
What else is this but heaven begun,
Pure peace and simple chastity ?
SECOND SISTER.
Oh never yet to mortal maid
Such sad divine division came
From all that stirs or makes afraid
The gentle thoughts without a name;

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7110 SISTERS.
Through all that lives a sacred shame,
A pulse of pleasant trouble, flows,
Ind tips the claisy's tinge of Hamne,
And blushes redder in the rose.
FIRST SISIR.
lirom liſted head the golden hair
Is soft and blowing in the breeze,
And softly on her brows of prayer
The summer-shadow tlits and flees:
Then parts a pathway thru the trees,
A vista sunlit and serene,
And there and then it is she sees
What none but such as she have seen.
SECONI) SISTER.
Oh if with him by lca and lawn
I pressed but once the silvery sod,
And scattered sparkles of the lawn
From aster and from golden-rod,

·TIPO SISTERS.
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I would not tread where others trod,
Nor crean as other maidens do,
Vor more should need to ask of God,
Il'hen God had brought me thereunto.

·LOVE AND FAITH.
Lo if a man, magnanimous and tender,
Lo if a woman, desperate and true,
Make the irrevocable sweet surrender,
Show to each other what the Lord can do,--
Each, as I know, a helping and a healing,
Each to the other strangely a surprise,
Heart to the heart its mystery revealing,
Soul to the soul in melancholy eyes,

·LOVE TAT) FAITI. 21 Where wilt thou find a riving or a rending Able to sever them in twain again? God hath begun, and God's shall be the ending, Safe in His bosom and aloof from men. Hicr thou mayst separate but shalt not sunder Tho' thou distress her for a little while; Rapt in a worship, ravished in a wonder, Stayed on the stedfast promise of a sinile, Scarcely she knoweth if his arms have found her- Waves of his breath make tremulous the air- Or if the thrill within her and around her Be but the distant echo of his prayer. Nay, and much more; for love in his demanding Will not be bound in limits of our breath, Calls her to follow where she sees him standing Fairer and stronger for the plunge of death;-

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LOIE 4.10 :1/771.
Waketh a vision and a voice within her
Sweeter than dreams and clearer than cumplaint,
“Is it a man thou lovest, and a sinner?
No! but a soul, o woman, and a saint!"
Well,--if to her such prophecy be given,
Strong to illuminate when sight is dim,
Then tho' my Lordl be holy in the heaven
How should the heavens sunder me from Him?
She and her love --- how dimly has she seen him
Dark in a dream and windy in a wraith!
I and my Lord,---between me and between Him
Soareth the lucent ladder of
my
faith.
Ay, and thercon, descending and ascending,
Suns at my side and starry in the air,
Angels, His ministers, their tasks are blending,
Bear me the blessing, render Him the prayer.

·FRIENDSHIP AND HOPE.
LOVING and loved and delicate and lowly,
Rich in all blessing that thy God can send,
Take yet a gift, the simple and the holy
Gift of the faith and honour of a fiend.
Sicet were the woods thro' which we went together,-
Gladly thou wentest and one glad with thee,--
Drowned in the glow and glory of the weather,
Kissed with the breath of summer and the sea.

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FRIEADSIIIP IND IOPE.
There the great home, above the shadows' sleeping,
Rises and reddens in the sunset-fires,
There the brave saint, a warrior-vigil keeping,
Crowns with his crest the forest of the spires.
Often the moon above the moorland gleaming
Lovely and silent on the mere shall shine,
Oft shall the sweet air thro' the twilight streaming
Moan in the sombre spaces of the pine.
Oh from the hush and dying of the splendour
Take thou a patience and a comfort then!
Oh let thine eyes be satisfied and tender
Knowing the common brotherhood of men!
Children of God! and each as he is straying
Lights on his fellow with a soft surprise,
Hearkens, perchance, the whisper of his praying,
Catches the human answer of his eyes.

·FRIEADSIIN AND NO1E.
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Then having met they speak and they remember
All are one family, their sire is one,
Cheers them with June and slays them with December,
l'ortions to each the shadow and the sun.
Therefore His children hold to one another,
Speak of a hope and tarry till the end,
Strong in the bond of sister and of brother,
Safe in the fellowship of friend and friend.

·Οίκοθεν οίκαδε.
WHEN summer even softly dies,
When summer winds are free,
A thousand lamps, a thousand eyes,
Shall gliminer in the sea :
o look how large, behind, below,
The lucid crcatures glance and glow!
They strew with soft and ficry foam
Her streaming way from home to home.
So shines the deep, but high above,
Beyond the cloudy bars,
The old infinity of love
Looks silent from the stars :

·Οίκοθεν οίκαδε.
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When parted friends no more avail
Those sleepless watchers shall not fail,
They learn her looks, they list her sighs,
They love her soft beseeching eyes.
Then in the wonian's heart is born
The child's delight anew,
The Highland glory of the morn,
The rowans bright with dew;
She hears the flooding stream that falls
By those ancestral castle-walls,
Her father's woods are tossing free
Between her and the southern sea.
Or lovely in a lovely place
One offers as she stands
Sister to sister sweet embrace
And hospitable hands;
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Οίκοθεν οίκαδε.
White-robed as once in happy hours
She stood a rose among the flowers,
And heart to heart would speak and tell
The reason why we loved her well.
So in a dream the nights go by,
So in a dream the days,
Till, when the good ship know's anigh
The Asian waterways,
From home to home her love shall set
And hope be stronger than regret,
And rest renew and prayer control
Her sweet unblemishable soul.
The waves subside; she stems at last
That swiſt eternal stream;
Her occan-dreams are overpast, -
Or is this too a dream ?

·Οίκοθεν οίκαδε.
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For child and husband, fast and fain,
Have clasped her in their arms again :-
Let only mothers murmur this,
Hlow Txaloe and mother clasp and kiss.

·SIMMENTHAL
FAR off the old snows evernew
With silver edges cleft the blue
Aloft, alone, divine;
The sunny meadows silent slept,
Silence the sombre armies kept,
The vanguard of the pine.
In that thin air the birds are still,
No ringdove murnurs on the hill
Nor mating cushat calls;

·SIMMENTHAL.
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But gay cicalas singing sprang,
And waters from the forest sang
The song of waterfalls.
U Fate! a few enchanted hours
Beneath the firs, among the flowers,
High on the lawn we lay,
hen turned again, contented well,
While bright about us flamed and fell
The rapture of the day.
And softly with a guileless awe
Beyond the purple lake she saw
The embattled summits glow;
She saw the glories melt in one,
The round moon rise, while yet the sun
Was rosy on the snow.

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SILE.IT/I.IL.
Then like a newly-singing biru
The child's soul in her bosom stirred;
I know not what she sung ::
Because the soft wind caught her hair,
Because the golden moon was fair,
Because her heart was young
I would her sweet soul ever may
Look thus from those glad eyes and grey,
Unfcaring, undefiled :
I love lier; when her face I sce,
Her simple presence wakes in me
The imperishable child.

·ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD,
Herr let us leave him ; for his shroud the snow,
For funeral lamps he has the planets seven,
l'or a great sign the icy stair shall go
Between the heights to heaven.
One moment stood he as the angels stand,
High in the stainless cminence of air;
The next, he was not, to his fatherland
Translated unaware.

·ON AN INVALID.
Lo, as the poet finds at will
Than tenderest words a tenderer still
For one beside him prest;
So from the Lord a mercy flows,
A sweeter balm from Sharon's rose,
For her that loves him best.
And ere the early throstles stir
With some sweet word from God for her
The morn returns anew;

·ON AN INVALID.
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For her His face in the east is fair,
For her His breath is in the air,
His rainbow in the dew.
At such an hour the promise falls
With glory on the narrow walls,
With strength on failing breath;
There comes a courage in her eyes,
It gathers for the great emprize,
The deeds of after death.
Albeit thro' this preluding woe
Subdued and softly she must go
With half her music dumb,
What heavenly hopes to her belong,
And what a rapture, what a song,
Shall greet His kingdom come!

·106
OV 4X UTILID.
So climbers by some Alpine mere
Walk very softly thro' the clear
Unlitten dawn of day:
The morning star before them shows
Beyond the rocks, beyond the snows,
Their never-travelled way.
Or so, ere singers have begun,
The master-organist has won
The folk at i've to prayer:
So soſt the tune, it only seems
The music of an angel's dreams
Macle audible in air.
But when the mounting treble shakes,
When with a noise the anthem wakes
A song forgetting sin,

·0.1.1.1 I.VTILID.
IC
Thru' all her pipes the organ pcals,
With all her voice at last reveals
The storm of praise within.
The trump: the trump! how pure and high!
Ilus clear the fairy flutes reply!
llon Doll the clarions blow!
Xor God Himser has scorned the strain,
But hears it and shall hear again,
And heard it long ago.

·FROM ALFRED DE MUSSET
I HAVE lost my life, I have lost my strength,
And joy, and hope that lingered long,
And, losing all, have lost at length
The spirit and the pride of song.
How quickly spent a man's desire
Falls from the mistress of his youth !
And so I loved, and so I tire
Of my last mistress, ay, of Truth.

·FROM ALFRED DE MUSSET.
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And yet she is immortal ; they
Who, ere they know her, pass away,
Have wasted foolish years :
My God, Thy creature answers Thee;
One only good remains with me,--
The memory of tears.

·RETROSPECT.
ALAs the darkened vault of day!
The fading stars that shine no more:--
Alas mine eyes that cloud with grey
That beauty lucid as before !
Alone on some lesertech shore,
Forgetting happy hope, I stand,
And to my own sad self deplore
The stillness of the empty lund.
2.
And I am he who long ago,--
( How well my heart recalls it yet!)-
Beheld an early sun and low
In fields I never shall forget;

·RETROSPECT.
III
The roses round were bright and wet
And all the garden clear with dew,
In pleasant paths my steps were set
And life was young and love was new.
3.
How changed is this from that estate !
How vexed with unfamiliar fears!
And from that chill more separate
Than friend from friend of other years,
Who strains quick sight and eager ears
Forgiveness from the dead to win,
But only sees the dark, and hears
A soundless echo of his sin.

·ANTE DIE M.
“O SEEK not with untimely art
To ope the bud before it blows,
Bewitching from the folded heart
Reluctant petals of the rose !
Too quickly cherished, quickly dear,
She came, the graceful child and gay,
o leave her in her early year
Till April crimson into May !
The golden sun shall glance and go,
Shall rest and tremble in her hair;
Beside her cheek shall love to blow
The soft and kindly English air ;

·ANTE DIEM.
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o leave her glad with such caress,
In such embraces clasped and free,
Nor teach thy hasty heart to guess
The woman and the love to be."
Thus with myself my thoughts complain,
And so by night shall I be wise,
Till on my heart arise again
Her open and illumined eyes.
A moment then the past prevails
And in the man is manhood strong,
Then froin the bruised soul exhales
The sweet and quivering flame of song.
Oh if indeed with time and tide
Too fast the changeful seasons flow,
And loving life from life divide
And shape and sunder as they go,
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·AVTE DIEM.
Yet with what airy bonds I may
Her flying soul shall I retain,
And sometimes, dreaming in the day,
Shall see her, as she smiled, again
it girlish joy shall haunt the spot,
A presence shall illume the shade,
Ind unembraced and unforgot
Shall rise the vision of a maid.

·WIND MOON AND TIDES,
LOOK when the clouds are blowing
And all the winds are free,
In fury of their going
They fall upon the sea :
But though the blast is frantic
And though the tempest raves
The cleep immense Atlantic
is still beneath the waves.
Then while the Zephyrs tarry,
Or when the frost is nigh,
The maiden none can marry
Will beckon from the sky :-
S?

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IVIND MOON AND TIDES.
Then with a wild commotion,
Then with a rush and roar,
The whole enormous ocean
Is flung upon the shore.

·PARIS
A MACON.
I SAW, I saw the lovely child,
I watched her by the way,
I learnt her gestures sweet and wild,
Her loving eyes and gay.
Her name?--I heard not, nay, nor care. ---
Enough it was for me
To find her innocently fair
And delicately free.
Oh cease and go cre dreams be done,
Nor trace the angel's birth,
Nor find the paradisal one
1 blossom of the earth!

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PARIS A MACON.
Thus is it with our subtlest joys --
How quick the soul's alarm!
How lightly deed or word destroys
That evanescent charm!
It comes unbidden, comes unbought,
Unfettered flees away,
His swiftest and his sweetest thought
Can never poet say.

·PRAYER.
GOI), Goul, how oft in what assault of prayer
Just man subclue the soul and bend the knee,
How often in the infinite of air
Must hurl the lituies that cry for thee,
And look to heaven, and tell himself that there
No voice hath been and yet a voice shall be :-
() say how often, till the last despair
Seize him and macklen, as it maddens me?
But who contends with God? it is in vain :
How should a sinner of the Just complain?
From the Almighty shall a man be free?
Nay, till I die must I beseech again,
Yea, till I die the pulses of my pain
Beat with the flow and falling of the sea.

·WOULD GOD IT WERE EVENING.
IMPRISONED in the soul and in the sin,
Imprisoned in the body and the pain,
The accustomed hateful memories within,
Without, the accustomcı limbs that ache again :
Alas! a melancholy peace to win
With all their notes the nightingales complain,
And I such music as is mine begin,
Awake for nothing and alive in vain.
I find few words and falter; then in scorn
My lips are silent ; uncreate, unborn,
Evanishes the visionary lay;
While from clear air upon my soul forlorn
Balls thro' the heedless splendour of the morn
A sadness as the sadness of to-day.

·WOULD GOD IT WERE MORNING.
My God, how many times ere I be dead
Must I the bitterness of dying know?
How often like a corpse upon my bed
Compose me and surrender me and so
Thro' hateful hours and ill-remembered
Between the twilight and the twilight go,
By visions bodiless obscurely led
Thro' many a wild enormity of woe?
And yet I know not but that this is worst,
When with that light, the feeble and the first,
I start and gaze into the world again,
And gazing find it as of old accurst
And grey and blinded with the stormy burst
And blank appalling solitude of rain.

·IMMORTALITY,
I.
So when the old (lelight is born anew
And God re-animates the early bliss
Seems it not all as one first trembling kiss
Ere soul knew soul with whom she has to do?
'() nights how desolate, o days how few,
() death in life, if life be this, be this!
() weighed alone as one shall win or miss
The faint eternity which shines therethro'!
Lo all that age is as a speck of sand
Lost on the long beach where the tides are free,
And no man metes it in his hollow hand
Nor cares to ponder it, how small it be;
At ebb it lies forgotten on the land
And at full tide forgotten in the sea.'

·LILUORTALITY.
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II.
Yet in my hid soul must a voice reply
Which knows not which may seem the viler gain,
To sleep for ever or be born again,
The blank repose or drear eternity.
A solitary thing it were to die
So late begotten and so early slain,
With sweet life withered to a passing pain,
Till nothing anywhere should still be I.
Yet if for evermore I must convey
These weary senses thro' an endless day
And gaze on God with these exhausted eyes,
I fear that howsoe'er the seraphs play
My life shall not be theirs nor I as they,
But homeless in the heart of Paradise.

·AFTER AN INTERVIEW.
So while the careless crowd have gazed and gone
Sits one man stedfast in a chosen place,
And of all faces which they gaze upon
Desires one only face:
For early morning finds the lover there,
Also at eventide his eyes are dim,
Till at the last he slowly is aware
His soul has flown from him.
So also he whom vanished organ-lays
Have stung to jubilance and thrilled to tears
Sits with sonorous memories of praise
Tranced in his echoing cars :

·AFTER AN INTERVIEW.
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Thro' all his blood the billowy clangours roll,
Thro' all his body leaps the living strain,
And sweetly, stilly, in his hidden soul
The soft notes sink again.
Then while the trooping singers outward range
He waits enthralled in that superb surprise ;
Like airy ghosts they pass him by, nor change
His wide and wistful eyes.
So stays he in high heaven a little space,
Then treads the portal which the others trod,
And issues into silence, face to face
With darkness and with God.

·PALLIDA MORTE FUTURA
1.
This is not shame in her courageous eyes,
Nor on those lids the glitter of a tear,--
Nay, but å rapt seclusion of surprise
After such woe to find an end so near :-
How lorn in heaven the hurrying winds arise !
How black the slow waves sway upon the pier !
On the edge of death her haunting memory flies,
And the utmost marvel has not place for fear.
() waves that ebb), o shadowy airs that err,
With you she speaks, with you she would confer,
Demanding dumbly what it is to dic:
Yet hush ye winds, nor let the billows stir,
I with a single look shall answer her,
For death knows death and what she is am I.

·PALLID.1 MORTE FUTURA.
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II.
For even so forlorn and so forsaken,
So shut and severed from all homes that are,
While in the vault the auroral glories waken,
False flames, and dying ere the morning star,
My soul in solitude her post has taken,
Between the two seas, on the narrowing bar,-
Sees on cach hand the stormful waters shaken,
The twin Eternitics unite afar.
There mid faiths slain and idols shattered low,
And many a fallcn friend and fallen foe,
She waits by night the flooding tides to be;
And only to herself, and hushed, and slow,
Makes hidden melodies and wails her woe
Till roar meet roar and sea be mixt with sca.

·A CHILD OF THE AGE.
I.
Oh for a voice that in a single song
Could quiver with the hopes and moan the fears
And speak the speechless secret of the years,
And rise, and sink, and at the last be strong!
O for a trumpet-call to stir the throng
Of doubtful fighting-men, whose eyes and ears
Watch till a banner in the East appears
And the skies ring that have been still so long!
O age of mine, if one could tune for thee
A marching music out of this thy woe!
If one could climb upon a hill and see
Thy gates of promise on the plain below,
And gaze a minute on the bliss to be
And knowing it be satisfied to know !

·A CHILD OF TIIE AGE.
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11.
I thought to stand alone upon a height
Above the waters where my kinsmen lie;
I seemed to hear a promise in the night,
I dreamed I saw a dawning in the sky :
I said, 'For you, for you, with keener sight,
I watch till on the waves the dawn be nigh :'
I said, “While these men slumber, what delight
That we two should be waking, God and I!
Ah me! the deathful waters climb and creep,
Far off the melancholy deep to deep
Murmurs a tidal infinite reply:
6
Oh fool, oh foolish prodigal of sleep,
Remains, remains but with the waves to weep,
Or in the darkness with the dead to die.'
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·A VISION.
What heart by waiting broken
Shall speak the word unspoken,
And who by tears betoken
The wisdom he has won ?
Or say to him that grieveth
'The hope thy soul believeth
l'erchance, perchance, deceiveth,-.
But other hope is none.

·A VISION.
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'Ay, deep beyond thy telling
A bitter fount is welling,
Tar off a bell is knelling
The ruin of thy youth:
Hide, hide the futurc's rising
With dreams and thin disguising ;-
Can any man's devising
Be sadder than the truth?'
Then I with hope undying
Will rise and make replying,
Will answer to his sighing
In specch that is a sigh,
“The bonds that press and fetter,
That chafe the soul and fret her,
What man can know them better,
O brother men, than I?

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A VISION.
And yet, my burden bearing,
The five wounds ever wearing,--
I too in my despairing
Have seen him as I say ;--
Gross darkness all around him
Enwrapt him and enwound him,--
O late at night I found him
And lost him in the day !
• Yet bolder grown and braver
At sight of one to save her
My soul no more shall waver,
With wings no longer furled, -
But cut with one decision
From doubt and men's derision
That sweet and vanished vision
Shall follow thro' the world.'

·SOLO NION.
STANDS the great king regarding as he stands
The bright perfected labour of his hands :
Then with no doubtful voice or trembling tone
Calls to the Presence he has made his own:
*All gold within and gilded
This house that I have builded,
It is ready for a King in his array:
Behind the curtain's hiding
The Highest is abiding;
We have found Him, He is with us from to day.'

·13+
SOLOJION.
But we grown wiser than the wise and made
For all our wisdom all the more afraid,
Each man of each despairingly inquires
For God whom with despairing he desires :
Have ye for all your duty
Beheld him in his beauty ?
Are there others who have known him otherwhere?
The days around us darken,
He hears not nor will hearken,
He is gone into the infinite of air.'

·LOVER'S SONG.
I TILANK thee, dear, for words that fleet,
For looks that long endure,
l'or all caresses simply sweet
And passionately pure ;
For blushes mutely understood,
For silence and for sighs,
For all the yearning womanhood
Of grey love-laden eyes.

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LOVER'S SONG.
Oh how in words to tell the rest?
My bird, my child, my dove !
Behold I render best for best,
I bring thee love for love.
Oh give to God the love again
Which had from him its birth,-
Oh bless him, for he sent the twain
Together on the carth.

·SUNRISE.
LOOK o blinded eyes and burning,
Think, o heart amazed with yearning,
Is it yet beyond thine earning,
That delight that was thine all ?
Wilful eyes and undiscerning,
Heart ashamed of bitter learning,
It is flown beyond returning,
It is lost beyond recall.

·138
SUNRISE.
Who with prayers has overtaken
Those glad hours when he would waken
To the sound of branches shaken
By an early song and wild,
When the golden leaves woull flicker,
And the loving thoughts come thicker,
And the thrill of life beat quicker
In the sweet heart of the child?
Yet my soul, tho' thou forsake her,
Shall adore thee, till thou take her,
In the morning, o my Maker,
For thine oriflamme unfurled :
For the lambs beneath their mothers,
For the bliss that is another's,
For the beauty of my brothers,
For the wonder of the world.

·SUVRISE.
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From above us and from under,
In the ocean and the thunder,
Thou preludest to the wonder
Of the Paradise to be:
For a moment we may guess thee
From thy creatures that confess thee
When the morn and even bless thee
And thy smile is on the sea.
Then from something seen or heard,
Whether forests softly stirred,
Or the speaking of a word,
Or the singing of a bird,
Cares and sorrows cease :
For a moment on the soul
Falls the rest that maketh whole,
Falls the endless peacc.

·140
SUNRISE.
O the hush from earth's annoys!
O the heaven, o the joys
Such as priest and singing-boys
Cannot sing or say !
There is no more pain and crying,
There is no more death and dying,
As for sorrow and for sighing,-
These shall flee away.

·FRAGMENTS.
I.
O for one minute hark what we are saying!
This is not pleasure that we ask of Thee!
Nay, let all life be weary with our praying,
Streaming of tears and bending of the knee :-
Only we ask thro' shadows of the valley
Stay of thy staff and guiding of thy rod,
Only, when rulers of the darkness rally,
Be thou beside us, very near, O God!

·142
FRAGMENT'S.
II.
I WAILED as one who scarce can be forgiven,
But the good God had pity from afar,
And saw me desolate, and hung in heaven
The signal of a star.
III.
O God, how many years ago,
In homes how far away,
A people I shall never know
Have humbled them to pray!
Not once or twice we cry to thee,
Not once, or now and then,--
Wherever there is misery,
Wherever there are men.

·FR.1 GILENT'S.
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IV.
() THAT the sorrowful joy, that the fears and the
tumult of loving
Ill could have vent in the one passionate sigh
of a prayer!
All that my tongue could pronounce, that my eyes
and my tears could letoken,
.All that could never be told, God, let me tell it
to Thee!
V.
I AM tired of all the years can give,
I am weary of all these things;
Tho' men should ask, I would not live
The life of seers or kings.
I care no more to learn or teach,
I love no more my breath,
And all but silence is my speech,
My life is all but death.

·A LAST APPEAL.
O SOMEWHERE, somewhere, God unknown,
Exist and be!
I am dying; I am all alone;
I must have Thee !
God! God! my sense, my soul, my all,
Dies in the cry:
Saw'st thou the faint star flame and fall ?
Ah! it was I.
CAMBRIDGE: PRINTEI) A1 THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

·16, BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON. December, 1869. MACMILLAN á CO'S GENERAL CATALOGUE of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, With some short Account or Critical Notice concerning each Book. SECTION 1. HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, and TRAVELS. Baker (Sir Samuel W.).—THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. By SIR SAMUEI. W. BAKER, M.A., F.R.G.S. With Portraits, Maps, and Illustrations. Third Edition, 8vo. 215. Sir Samuel Baker here describes twelve months' exploration, during which he examined the rivers that are tributary to the Nils from Abyssinia, including the Athara, Settite, Royan, Salaam, Angrab, Rahad, Dinder, and the Blue Nile. The interest attached to these portions of Africa differs entirely from that of the White Nile regions, as the whole of Upper Egypt and Abyssinia is capable of dez'ciopnient, and is inhabited by ruces herring some degree of civilisation; while Central Africa is peopled by a race of savaga's, whose future is more problematical. THE ALBERT N'YANZA Great Basin of the Nile, and Exploration of the Nile Sources. New and cheaper Edition, with Portraits, Maps, and Illustrations. Two vols. crown 8vo. 16s. "Bruce won the source of the Blue Nile; Speke and Grant'won the Victoria source of the great Il'hite Nile; and I have been permitted to succeed in completing the Nile Sources by the discovery of the great reservoir of the equatorial unters, the Ilbert Aranga, from which the river issues as the entire White Nile."_PREFACE. 3 A ·GENERAL CATALOGUE. Baker (Sir Samuel W.) (continued) CAST UP BY THE SEA; or, The Adventures of NED GREY. By SIR SAMUEL W. BAKER, M.A., F.R.G.S. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. cloth gilt, 7s. 60. "A story of adventure hy sea and land in the good old style. It appears to us to be the best book of the kind since Mastermin krudi',' and it runs that established forvurite n'ery close."--PALL MALL GAZETTE. “No hook written for boven has for a long time crentet .w much interest, or been so successful. Every part ought to provide his boy with a copy." DAILY TELEGRAPH. Baxter (R. Dudley, M.A.). THE TAXATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. By R. DUDLEY BAXTER, M.A. 8vo. cloth, 4s. 614. The First Part of this coork, originally read hefore the Statistical Society of London, deals with the amount of Taxation ; the Second Part, which now constitutes the main portiva of the work, is almost entirely neil, and embraces the important questions of Kating, of the relatire Tuxation of Land, Personalty, and Industry, and of the direct effect of Taxes upon Prices. The author trusts that the body of fonts here collected may be v permanent value as a murd of the past progress anil present condition of the population of the United Kingdom, independently of the transitury circumstances of its present Taxation. NATIONAL INCOME. With Coloured Diagrams. 8vo. 36. 6d. PART I.--Classification of the population, per, Middle, and Labour Classes. II.--Income of the United Kingdom. A painstaking and certainly most interesting inquiry." --PALL MALL GAZETTE.

·HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, & TRAVELS. 3 Bernard.-FOUR LECTURES ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH DIPLOMACY. By MOUNTAGUE BERNARD, M.A., Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Oxford. Svo. gs. Four Lectures, dealing with (1) The Congress of Westphalia; (2) Systems of Policy"; (3) Diplomacy, Past and Present; (4) The Obligations of Treaties. Blake.-TIIE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, TIIE ARTIST. By ALEXANDER GULCHRIST. With numerous Illustrations from Blake's designs, and Fac-similcs of his studies of the “Book of Job." Two vols. medium 8vo. 328. These rolumes contain a Life of Blake: Selections from his Writings, including Tirms; Lettersi innotuhl Catalogue of Pretures cavid Drawings ; List, with ovisional notis, of Blurke's ringrazings and li'ritings. There are appendet tingmured Designs by Blake: (1) The Book of you, twenty. one photo-lithographs from the origiuls; (2) Songs of Innocence and Experience, sixteln of the original l'lates. + Bright (John, M.P.).-SPECIES ON QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC POLICY. By Join BRIGHT, M.,P. Edited by Profesor THOROLI) ROGERS. Two Vols. 8vo. 256. Second Edition, with Portrait. "I hare diridal the Specches contained in these wlumes into groups. The materuals for scutron une su abundant, that I huile been constrainer to omit many a spark which is wrthy of careful perusal. I have naturally girien prominence to those subjects anth which Nir. Bright has been especially identifiut, «s, for example, Imlia, ulmericu, Ireland, and Parliamentury Reform. But nearly every topic of grant public interest on which Nir. Bright hus spokon is represented in these a'lumes." EDITOR'S PREFACE. AUTHOR'S POPULAR EDITION. Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth. Second Edition. 3.5. 6d. A 2 ·4 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Bryce.--THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. By JAMES BRYCE, B.C.L., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. [Reprinting CAMBRIDGE CHARACTERISTICS. See MULLINGER. Clay.-- THE PRISON CHAPLAIN. A Memoir of the Rev. Join CLAY, B.D., late Chaplain of the Preston Gaol. With Selections from his Reports and Correspondence, and a Sketch of Prison Discipline in England. By his Son, the Rev. W. L. CLAY, M.A. 8vo. 155. "Few books have appeared of late years better cntitled to an attentive perusal. It presents a complete narrative of all that has been done and attempted by various philanthropists for the amelioration of the condition and the improvement of the morals of the criminal classes in the British dominions."-LONDON REVIEW. Cooper.-_ATHENZE CANTABRIGIENSES. By CHARLES HENRY COOPER, F.S.A., and THOMPSON COOPER, F.S.A. Vol. I. 8vo., 1500.--85, 18s. Vol. II., 1586_1609, 18s. This elaborate work, which is dedicated by permission to Lord Macaulay, contains lives of the eminent men sent forth by Cambridge, after the fashion of Anthony d Wood, in his famous " Athcna Oxonienses." Dilke..GREATER BRITAIN. A Record of Travel in Englishspeaking Countries during 1866-7. (America, Australia, India.) By Sir CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, M.P. Cheap Edition, Crown 8vo. 6s. "Mr. Dilke has written a book which is probably as well worth reading as any book of the same ains and character that ever was written. Its merits are that it is written in a lively and agreeable style, that it implies a great deal of physical pluck, that no page of it fails to show an acute and highly intelligent observer, that it stimulates the imagination as well as the judgment of the reader, and that il is on perhaps the most interesting subject that can attract an Englishman who cares about his country.' SATURDAY REVIEW.

·HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, & TRAVELS. 5 Sa EARLY EGYPTIAN IIISTORY FOR THE YOUNG. "JUVENIL SECTION.” Forbes.--LIFE OF PROFESSOR EDWARD FORBES, F.R.S. By GEORGE Wilson, M.D., F.R.S.E., and ARCHIBALD) GEIKIE, F.R.S. 8vo. with Portrait, 145. "From the first page to the last the book claims careful rending, as being a full but not o'erirauded rehearsal of a most instructive life, and the true picture of a mind that was rare in strength and beanty." -EXAMINER. Freeman.-IIISTORY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, from the Foundation of the Achaian League to the Disruption of the C'nited States. By EDWARD A. FREEMAN, M.A. Vol. I. General Introduction. History of the Greek Federations. Svo. 2IS. " The task Ir. Fræman has undertaken is vne of great magnitude and importance. It is also a task of an almost entirely noel character. No other work professing to gire the history of a political principle occurs to us, except the slight contributions to the history of representative government that is contained in a course of Mr. Guizot's lectures . ... The history of the development of « principle is at least as important as the history of a dynasty, or of a nice.' SATURDAY REVIEW. French (George Russell). --SHAKSPEAREANA GENEALOGICA. 8vo. cloth extra, 155. Uniform with the "Cambridge Shakespeare." Part 1.-Identification of the dramatis persona in the historical plays, from King John to King Henry VIII.; Notes on Characters in Macbeth and Hamlet ; Persons and I'laces belonging to Warwickshire alluded to. Part II.-The Shakspare and Arden families and their connexions, with Tables of descent. The present is the first attempt to give a detailed description, in consecutir order, of each of the dramatis personæ in Shak- ·6 GENERAL CATALOGUE. speurr's immorlal chromcli'-histories, and some of the charniters here been, it is belier'cd, herein identified for the first time. I clue is furnished which, followed up with ordinary inligence, may enable any one, with a tuste for the pursuit, to trace a distinguished Shakspearean worthy to his lineul representutive in the present day. Gladstone (Right. Hon. W.E., M.P.). ---JUVENTUS MUNDI. The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age. Crown Svo. cloth extra. With Nap. Ios. 6d. This new work of r. Gladstone dents especully with the historic element in Ilomer, expounding that clement, and furnishing by its aid a full account of the Ilomeric men and the Ilomric religion. It starts, after The introductory chapter, with a discussion of the several rea's then existing in llellas, including the influence of the Phanicuns an Egyptians. It contuins chapters on the Olympin system, with its servral dcilics ; on the Ethics and the Polity of the Iwi age; on the gangraphy of Ilomar; un the characters of the Poems; presenting, in fini, a view of primilire life and primitir sveicly as found in the prems of Ilomir. "GLOBE" ATLAS OF EUROPE. Uniform in size with Macmillan's Clobe Series, containing 45 Coloured Majs, on a uniform scale and projection ; with Plans of London and l'aris, and a copious Index. Strongly bound in half-morocco, with flexible back, 9s. This Atlırs includes all the countries of Europe in a series of 48 Maps, drawn on the same scale, with an ellphabetical Index to the situation of more than ten thousand places, and the relation of the various maps and countries to each other is defined in a gineral key-map will the maps being on a uniform scale facilitates the comparison of extent and distance, and connys a just impression of the relatie magnitude of different countries. The size suffices to show the provincial divisions, the railways and main roads, the principal rivers and mountain ranges. "This atlas," writes the British Quarterly, “will be an invaluable boon for the school, the desk, or the traveller's portmanteau."

·HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, E TRAVELS. 7 Guizot.-(Author of "JOHN IIALIFAX, GENTIEMAN.")--M. DE BARANTE, A Memoir, Biographical and Autobiographical. By M. GUIZOT. Translated by the Author of "Joix IIALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." Crown 8vo. Os. 6. “The highest purposes of luth history and hivgraphy are ansu'cred by a mienwir so lifeliki, so forthful, and so philosophicul." BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. HISTORICAL SELECTIONS. Readings from the best Authorities on English and European IIistory. Selected and arranged by E. M. SLWELL and C. M. YONGE. Crown Svo, 6s. When young children have a quired the outlines of history from abridgemients and ratehisms, and it becomes darable to giz'e a more enlarged Urew of the subject, in order to render it really useful and interesting, a difficulty often dras as to the shore of louks. Ta' COW/SS ure open, either to take a general and consequently dry history of facts, suh as Russell's Modern Furope, or tv chows some anerk treating of a particular period or subject, such as the works of Macaulay und troudle. The former (04) SE usually rulers history uninteresting ; the latter is unsatisfactory', hecause it is not sufficiently comprehensize. To namely this difficulty', selections, continuous and chronologual, hurre in the present owlume bern taken from the Inrger anks of Fireman, Jhilman, Palghumle, and others, which may serve as distinct landmarks of historical reading: We know of scarcely anything, " sury's the Guardian, of this tolume, " which is so likely to raise to a higher lez'cl the acurare shndard of English education." 66 Hole.- GENEALOGICAL STEMMA OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE. By the Rev. C. IIOLE, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. On Shect, 1s. The different fimilics are printed in distinguishing colours, thus facila. tating reference.

·8 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Hole (continued) - A BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. Compiled and Arranged by the Rev. CHARLES IIOLE, M.A. Second Edition. 18mo, neatly and strongly bound in cloth, 45. 6d. One of the most comprehensive and accurate Biographical Dictionaries in the world, containing more than 18,000 persons of all countries, with dates of birth and death, and what they were distinguished for. Extreme care has been bestowed on the verification of the dates, and thus numerous crrors, current in previous works, have been corrected. Its size aulapts it for the desk, portmanteau, or pocket. “An invaluable addition to our manuals of reference, and, from its moderate price, cannot fail to become as popular as it is useful."-TIMES. Hozier.-THE SEVEN WEEKS WAR; Its Antecedents and its Incidents. By. H. M. HOZIER. With Maps and Plans. Two vols. 8vo. 28s. This work is based upon letters reprinted by permission from "The Times." For the most part it is a product of a personal eye-witness of some of the most interesting incidents of a war which, for rapidity and decisive results, may claim an almost unrivalled position in history. Irving.-TIIE ANNALS OF OUR TIME A Diurnal of Events, Social and Political, which have happene in or had rclation to the Kingdom of Great tain, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Opening of the present Parliament. By JOSEPH IRVING. Svo. half-bound. 18s. “We have before us a trusty and ready guide to the events of the past thirty years, available equally for the statesman, the politician, the public writer, and the general reader. If Mr. Irving's object has been to bring before the reader all the most noteworthy occurrences which have happened since the beginning of Her Majesty's reign, he may justly claim the credit of having done so most briefly, succinctly, and simply, and in such a manner, too, as to furnish him with the details necessary in each case to ·HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS. 9 comprehend the event of which he is in scarch in an intelligent manner. Reflection will serve to show the great value of such a work as this to the journalist and statesman, and inced to emicry one who feels an interest in the progress of the age; and we may add that its value is considerably increased by the addition of that most important of all appendices, an accurate and instructive index."-TIMES. Kingsley (Canon).-ON THE ANCIEN REGIME as it Existed on the Continent before the FRENCH REVOLUTION. Three Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. By the Rev. C. KINGSLEY, M.A., formerly I'rofessor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. Crown 8vo. 6s. These three lectures discuss semerally (1) Caste, (2) Centralization, (3) The Laplvsize Forces hy which the Reolution was superinduced. The Preface deals at some length with certain political questions of the present inny. TIIE ROMAN AND THE TEUTON. A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge. By Rev. C. KINGSLEY, M.A. Svo. 125. CONTENTS :-- Inaugural Lirture; The Forest Children; The Dying limpire; The Ilumun Deluge; The Gothic Cavilizi; Dietrich's End; The Vemesis of the Goths; Paulus Diaconus ; The Clergy and the Ileathen : The Monka Civilizer ; The Lombard Laws; The Popes and the Lombards; The Strategy of Providence. Latham.--BLACK AND WHITE: a Journal of a Three Months' Tour in the United States. By IIENRY LATHAM, M.A., Barrister at-Law. 8vo. 10s, 6d. "The spirit in which 11r. Latham has written about our brethren in merica is commendable in high degree."-ATUENÆUM.

·10 GENERAL. CATALOGUE. 2IS. Law.--THE ALPS OF HANNIBAL. By WILLIAM JOIN LAW, M.A., formerly Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Two vols. 8vo. "No one can read the work and not acquire a conviction that, in addition to a thorough grasp of a particular topic, its writer has al command a large store of reading and thought upon many cgnate points of ancient history and geography ”. -QUARTERLY REVIEW. Liverpool.-TIIE LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION OF ROBERT BANKS, SECOND) EARL OF LIVERPOOL, K.G. Compiled from Original Family Documents by CHARLES DUKE YONGE, Regius Professor of IIistory and English Literature in Queen's College, Belfast ; and Author of "The History of the British Navy," " The Ilistory of France umer the Bourbons," etc. Threc vols. 8vo. 425. Since the time of Lord Burleigh w one, crcept the second Pitt, c'er enjoyed so long a tenure of power ; with the same crreption, no one ezer held office at so critical u time. Loril Liturpool is the very last minister roho has been able fully lo carry out his own politiial m'ui's ; who has been so strong that in matters of general policy the Opposition could extort no concessions from himn which were not sanctioned by his own deliberate judgment. The present work is foundal almost entirely on the correspondence lift behind him by Lord lirerpool, and now in the possession of Colonel and Lady Catherine Ilarcourt. " Full of information and instruction.”FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. Maclear.-See Section, "ECCLESIASTICAI. IIISTORY." Macmillan (Rev. Hugh).— HOLIDAYS ON HIGH LANDS ; or, Rambles and Incidents in search of Alpine Plants. By the Rev. LUGH MACMILL IN, Author of "Bible Teachings in Nature," ctc. Crown 8vo, cloth. Os. "Botanical knowledge is blended with a love of nature, a pious en. thusiasm, and a rich felicity of diction not to be met with in any works of kindred character, if we except those of Hugh Miller." - DAILY TELEGRAPH.

·HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, EN TRAVELS. Macmillan (Rev. Hugh), (continucl)-- With FOOT-NOTES FROM THIE PAGE OF NATURE. numerous Illustrations. Fcap. Svo. 55. “ Those who have derired pleasure and profit from the study of flower's and ferns--subjects, it is plirsing to find, now c'erg zwhere popular-- by descending lower into the arcana of the progrtable kingdom, ull find a still more interesting and delightful field of research in the objects brought under review in the following pages."--PRETACE. Martin.--THE STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK FOR 1869. By FREDERICK MARTIN. (Sixth Annual Publication.) A Statistical, Mercantile, and Historical Account of the Civilized World for the Year 1868. Forming a Manual for Politicians and Merchants. Published annually. Crown 8vo. IOS, 6. < Everybody who knows this courk is aauure that it is a book that is indispensable to writers, financiers, politicians, sturtesmen, and all who are directly or indirectly interested in the political, social, industrial, commercial, and financial condition of their fellozti-creatures at home and abroad. Ur. Jartın deserves wurm commendatwn for the care he turkes in making. The Statesman's Pear Bonk' complete and correct.' STANDARD. Martineau. --BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1852-1868. By IIARRILT MARTINEAU. Third Edition, with New Preface. Crown 8vo. 8s. 60. A Collection of Memoirs under these sez'eral sections :-(1) Royal, (2) Politicians, (3) Professional, (4) Scientific, (5) Social, (6) Literary. These Memoirs appeursi originally in the columns of the “Daily News." Masson (Professor).-ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, Sec Scction headed" POETRY AND BELLES LETTRES."

·12 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Masson (Professor) (continued')-- LIFE OF JOHN MILTON. Narratel in connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary Iristory of his Tinc. By DAVID Masson, M.A., LL.I)., Professor of Rhetoric at Edinburgh. Vol. I. with Portraits. 8vo. 185. Vol. II. in the Press. It is intended to exhibit Milton's life in its connexions with all the more notable phenomena of the period of British history in which it was castits state politics, its ecclesiustical zariations, its literature and speculatire thought. Commencing in 1608, the Life of Milton proceeds through the last sixteen years of the reign of Fames I., includes the whole of the reign of Charles I. una the subsequent years of the Commonwealth and the Protectorale, and then, passing the Restoration, extends itself to 1674, or through fourteen years of the new state of things under Charles II. The first volume deals with the life of Milton as extending from 1608 to 1640. which was the period of his education and of his minor poems. Morison.---THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAINT BERNARD, Abbot of Clairvaux. By JAMES COTTER MORISON, M.A. New Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. 75. 6d. One of the best contributions in our literature towards a vivid, intel. ligent, and worthy knowledge of European interests and thoughts and feelings during the truelfth century. A delightful and instructive volume, and one of the best products of the modern historic spirit." L'ALL MALL GAZETTE. Morley (John).-EDMUND BURKE, a Historical Study. By JOHN MORLEY, B.A. Oxon. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d. The style is terse and incisive, and brilliant with epigram and point. It contains pithy aphoristic sentences which Burke himself would not have disowned. But these are not its best features : its sustained power of reasoning, its wide sweep of observation and reflection, its elevated ethical and social tone, stamp it as a work of high excellence, and as such we cordially recommend it to our readers."-SATURDAY REVIEW.

·HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, & TRAVELS. 13 Mullinger.-CAMBRIDGE CIIARACTERISTICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By J. B. MULLINGER, B.A. Crown 8vo. 45. 6d. " It is a very entertaining and readable book."-SATURDAY Review. “ The chapters on the Cartesian Philosophy and the Cambridge Platonists are admirable,"-ATHENÆUM. Palgrave.-HISTORY OF NORMANDY AND OF ENG- LAND. By Sir Francis PALGRAVE, Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty's Public Records. Completing the History to the Death of William Rufus. Four vols. 8vo. £4 45. Volume I. Gencral Relations of Mediæval Europe - The Carlovingian Empire-The Danish Expeditions in the Guuls–And the Establishment of Rollo. Volume II. The Three First Dukes of Normandy ; Rollo, Guillaume Longue-Épéc, and Richard Sans-Peur-The Carlovingian line supplantat by the Capets. l'olume III. Richard Sans-Prur Richard Le-Bon-Richard III.Kobert Le Diable-William the Con. Volume IV, William Rufus-Accession of Henry Beauclerc. ueror. Palgrave (W. G.).-A NARRATIVE OF A YEAR'S JOURNEY THROUGH CENTRAL, AND EASTERN ARABIA, 1862–3. By WILLIAM GIFFORD PALGRAVE, late of the Eighth Regiment Bombay N. I. Fourth and cheaper Edition. With Maps, Plans, and Portrait of Author, engraved on steel by Jeens. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d. Considering the extent of our previous ignorance, the amount of his achievements, and the importance of his contributions to our knowledge, we cannot say less of him than was once said of a far greater discorrer. Mr. Palgrave has indeed given a new world to Europe."-PALL MALL GAZETTE.

·14 GENERAL CATALOGUE. 66 Parkes (Henry).–AUSTRALIAN VIEWS OF ENGLAND. By HENRY PARKES. Crown 8vo. cloth. 35. 6d. The following letters were written during a residence in England, in the years 1861 and 1862, and were published in the Sydncy Morning Herald on the arrival of the monthly mails On re-perusal, these letters appear to contain views of English life and impressions of English notahilities which, as the views and impressions of an Englishman on his return to his native country after an absence of turnty peurs, may not be without interest to the English rader. The writm had opportunities of mixing with different classes of the British people, and of hearing opinions on passing events from opposite standpoints of observation."-Autior's PREFACE. Ralegh.--THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER RALEGII, based upon Contemporary Documents. By EDWARD Enwards. Together with Ralogh's Letters, now first collected. With Portrait. Two vols. 8vo. 325. "Mr. Edwards has certainly critten the Life of Ralogh from fuller information than any previous biographer. IIc is intelligent, industrious, sympathetic : and the wild has in his two ziolumes larger means afforded it of knowing Ralegrh than it eer possessed before. The new letters and the newly-edited old letters are in themselves a boon."--L'ALL MALI. GAZETTE. Robinson (Crabb).- DIARY, REMINISCENCES, AND CORRESPONDENCE OF CRABB ROBINSON. Selected and Edited by Dr. SADLER. With Portrait. Three vols. 8vo. cloth. 365. Mr. Crabb Robinson's Diary extends a 'cr the greater part of threequarters of a century. It contains personal reminiscences of some of the most distinguished characters of that period, including Goethe, Wicland, De Quincey, Wordsworth (with whom Mr. Crabb Robinson was on ternis of great intimacy), Madame de Staël, Lafayette, Coleridge, Lamb, Milman, Gor. &c.: and includes a unst variety of subjects, political, literary, aclesi. astical, and miscellaneous.

·HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, E TRAVELS. 15 Rogers (James E. Thorold).--HISTORICAL GLEAN. INGS: A Series of Sketches. Montague, Walpole, Adam Smith, Cobbett. By Rev. J. E. T. Rogers. Crown 8vo. 45. 6.. Professor Rogers's object in the following sketches is to present a set of historical fact. rouped round a principal figure. The essays are in form of lectures. Smith (Professor Goldwin).-- TIIREE ENGLISH STATESMEN : PYM, CROMWELL, PITT. A Course of Lectures on the Political History of England. Ry GOLDWIN SMITHI, M.A. Extra ſcap. 8vo. New and Cheaper Elition. 5s. “A work which neither historian nor politician can safely afford to neglect."-SATURDAY REVIEW. Tacitus.-THE HISTORY OF TACITUS, translated into English. By A. J. CHURCH, M.A. and W. J. BRODRIDR, M.A. With a Map and Notes. Svo. Ios. 64. The translators hare endaw'oured to adhere as closely to the original as was thought consistent with a proper observance of English idiom. At the sume time it has been their aim to reproduce the precise ca pressions of the author. This work is characterised by the Spectator as at scholarly and faithful translation. Taylor (Rev. Isaac).---WORDS AND PLACES; or Etymological Illustrations of History, Etymology, and Geography. By the Rev. ISAAC TAYLOR. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 12s. 60, "Mr. Taylor has produced a really useful book, and one which stana's alone in our language."-SATURDAY REVIEW, THE AGRICOLA AND GERMANTA. Translated into English by A. J. CHURCH, M.A. and W. J. BRODRIBB, M.A. With Maps and Notes. Extra ſcap. 8vo. The translators have sought to produce such a version as may satisfy scholars who demand a faithful rendering of the original, and English 64 >) 25. 6d.

·16 GENERAL CATALOGUE, readers who are offended by the baldness and frigidity which commonly disfigure translations. The treatises are accompanied by introductions, notes, maps, and a chronological summary. The Athenacum sury's of this work that it is "a version at once readable and exact, which may be perused with pleasure by all, and consulted with advantage by the classical student." Trench (Archbishop).-GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS : Social Aspects of the Thirty Years' War. By R. CHENEVIX TRENCH, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. 6d. “Clear and lucid in style, these lectures will be a treasure to many whom the subject is unfamiliar."-DUBLIN EVENING MAIL. to Trench (Mrs. R).-Edited by ARCHBISHOP TRENCH. Remains of the late Mrs. RICHARD TRENCH. Being Selections from her Journals, Letters, and other Papers. New and Cheaper Issue, with Portrait, 8vo. 6s. Contains notices and anecdotes illustrating the social life of the period extending over a quarter of a century (1799-1827). It includes also poems and other miscellaneous pieces by Nirs, Trench. Trench (Capt. F., F.R.G.S.).--THE RUSSO-INDIAN QUESTION, IIistorically, Strategically, and Politically considered. By Capt. TRENCH, F.R.G.S. With a Sketch of Central · Asiatic Politics and Map of Central Asia. Crown 8vo. 75. 6d. “ The Russo-Indinn, or Central Asian question has for several obvious reasons been attracting much public attention in England, in Russia, and also on the Continent, within the last year or two. I have thought that the present volume, giving a short sketch of the history of this question from its earliest origin, and condensing much of the most recent and inter. esting information on the subject, and on its collateral phases, might perhaps be acceptable to those who take an interest in it." --AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

·HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY & TRAVELS. 17 Trevelyan (G.O., M.P.).--CAWNPORE. Iustrated with Plan. By G. O. TREVELYAN, M.P., Author of "The Competitiun Wallah." Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "In this book aut are not spared one fact of the sad story; but oui feelings are not hurround by the recital of imaginary outruges. It is good for us at home that we have one who tells his tale so well as does Mr. Trevelyun."--PALI. MALL GAZETTE. TIE COMPETITION WALLAH. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 63 “ The errlir letters are especially intercsting for their racy descriptions of Europem lifi in India. .... Those that follow are of more serious import, serking to tell the truth about the lindoo character and English influences, good and bad, upon it, as well as to suggest some better course of treatment than that hitherto adopted." - EXAMINER. Vaughan (late Rev. Dr. Robert, of the British Quarterly).---MEMOIR OF ROBERT A, VAUGIIAN. Author of "Hours with the Mystics." By ROBERT VAUGHAN, D.I), Second Edilion, revised and enlarged. Extra fcap. Svo. 55. "It deserz'cs a place on the same shelf with Stanley's 'Life of Arnold,' and Carlyle's 'Stirling' Dr. l'austhun has performed his painful but not all unpleasing task with exquisite god taste and feeling." -NONCON- FORMIST. Wallace. --THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO: the Land of the Orang Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travels with Studies of Man and Natuie. By ALFRED Russel WALLACE. With Maps and Illustrations. Second Edition. Two vols. crown 8vo. 245. "A carrfully and deliberately composed narrative. We advise our readers to do as we have done, read his book through."-TIMES. Ward (Professor).-THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA IN THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. Two Lectures, with Notes and Illustrations. By ADOLPILUS W. WARD, M.A., Professor of History in Owens College, Manchester. Extra fcap. 8vo. 25. 6d. Very compuct and instructiric.".FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. B ·18 GENERAL CATALOGUE Warren.-AN ESSAY ON GREEK FEDERAL COINAGE. By the Hon. J. LEICESTER WARREN, M.A. 8vo. 25. 6d. “The present essay is an attempt to illustrate Mr. Freeman's Federal Government by evidence deduced from the coinage of the times and countries therein treated of."-PREFACE. Wilson. A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, M. D., F.R.S.E., Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit." GUARDIAN. Wilson (Daniel, LL.D.).-PREHISTORIC ANNALS OF SCOTLAND. By DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., I'rofessor of History and English Literature in University College, Toronto. New Edition, with numerous Illustrations. Two vols, demy 8vo. 36s. This cluborate and lernal work is dir'ided into four Turls. Part I. deals with The Primeval or Stone P'eriod : Aboriginal Traces, Sepulchral Memorials, Dzellings, and Catacombs, Temples, Iliapons, Err. for. i Part 11., The Bronze Period: The Mitullurgic Trumsition, Primitive Brondi, Personal Ornaments, Religion, Arts, and Domestic Ilabits, with other topies; Part III., The Iron Period: The Introduction of Iron, The Roman Invasion, Strongholds, &c. &c.; Part IV., The Christian Period Historical Data, the Norri's Lutz Relics, Primitiru and Mcdiæva! Ecclesiology, Ecclesiastical and Miscellancous Antiquities. The work , furnished with an elaborate Index. PREHISTORIC MAN. New Edition, revised and partly re-written, with numerous Illustrations. One vol. 8vo. 215. This work, which carries out the principle of the preceding one, but with a wider scope, aims to " view Alan, as far as possible, unaffectel by those modifying influences which accompany the devlopment of nations and the maturity of a true historic period, in order therchy to ascertain the sources from whence such development and maturity proceed.” It contains, for example, chapters on the Primeval Transition ; Specch; Metals; the Mound-Builders ; Primitive Architecture; the American Type; the Red Blood of the West, &c. &c.

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·SECTION II.
POETRY AND BELLES LETTRES.
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·20 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Arnold (Matthew) (continued)— ESSAYS IN CRITICISM. New Edition, with Additions. Extra fcap. 8vo. 65, CONTENTS:Prefare ; The Function of Criticism at the present time ; The Litcrury Influence of cademics ; Maurice de Guerin ; Eugene de Guerin ; Ileinrich Heine ; Pigern und Judicial Religious Sentiment : Joubert ; Spinoza and the Bible ; Marcus Turelius. Barnes (Rev. W.).—-POEMS OF RURAL LIFT IN (ON- MON ENGLISII. By the Rev. W. BIRNES, Author of “Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect.” Forp. Svo. 65. "In a high degrer pleasent and noziel. The book is by no means om which the lours of descriptive poetry can afford to lose."--ATIIENAUM Bell.-ROMANCES AND MINOR POEMS. GLASSFORD Bel... Fcar. 8vo. 6s. Ry IIENKY & Full of life and genius.”--COURT CIRCULAR. Besant.--STUDIES IN EARLY FRENCH POETRY. By WALTER BESANT, M.A. Crown. 8vo. 8s. 61. A sort of impression rests on most minds that French literature begins with the “siècle de Louis Quatorze;" any previous literature bring for the most part unknown ur ignored. Vieme know anything of the enormous literary activity that began in the thirtenth century, was carried on by Rulebeuf, Marie de France, Gaston de l'vix, Thibault de Champagne, and Lorris; was foster:d by Charles of Orleans, by Margaret of Valois, by Francis the First ; that guve a crowd of z'ersifiers to livance, enriched, strengthened, dez'cloped, and fixed the French langunge, and prepared the way for Corncille and for Racine. The present work aims to afford information and diruction touching the carly efforts of France in poetical literature. In one moderately sized volume he has contrired to introduce us to the y my best, it not lo all of the early French poets." --ATHENÆUM. 66 ·POETRY E BELLES LETTRES. 21 Bradshaw.-AN ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN THE STATE OF CHAUCER'S WORKS, AS THIEY WERE LEFT AT HIS DEATH. With some Notes of their Subscquent llistory. By IIENRY BRADSHAW, of King's Collegc, and the University Library, Cambridge. [In the Press. Brimley.---ESSAYS BY THE LATE GEORGE BRIMLEY. M.J. Erlited by the Rev. W. G. CLARK, M.A. With Portrait Cheaper Edition. I'cap. 810. 35. 6d. tissury's un literary topics, such as Tonnyson's “Poems," Carlyle's · Life of Stirling," “ Bleak Ilouse," C., reprinted from Fraser, the Spectator, and like periodicals. 68 Clough (Arthur Hugh).---THE POEMS AND PROSE REMILLS OF ARTITUR TILGIl CLOUGH. With a Selection from luis Letters and a Memoir. Edited by his Wife. With Portrait. Two vols, crown 8vo. 215, Or Poems separately, as below. The late Professor Clough is all known as a grociful, tender poet, wud as the scholarly translator of Plutarch. The letters possess high interest, not lographical vily, but literari-idiscussing, as they do, the most important questwns of the time, alaus in a geniul spirit. The "Rimins" include papers on "kitrenchment at V.rford;" on Professor F.W. Viiman's book "The Soul ;" on Wordsworth ; on the Formation of Classical Linglish ; on some Ilodoru Poems (Mattheiv Arnold and the late Alexander Smith), Gur, &c. THE POEMS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. With a Memoir by F. T. PALGRAVE. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. "From the higher mind of cultivated, all-questioning, but still conservative England, in this our puzzled generation, we do not know of any utterance in literature so characteristic as the poems of Arthur Hugh Clough."-TRASER'S MAGAZINE.

·22 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Dante.—DANTE'S COMEDY, THIE HIELL. Translated by W. M. RosseTTI. Fcap Svo. cloth. 5s. The aim of this translation of Dante may be summed up in one word --Literality. To follow Dante sentence for sentenci, line for line, word for word--ucither more nor less--has becn my strenuous endeavour." -AUTHOR'S PREFACE. De Vere. -TIIL INFINT BRIDAL, and other Poems. Ву AUBREY DE VERE. Fcap. 8vo. 75. 6d. "Mr. De l’ere has taken his place among the poils of the day. Pure and tender feeing, and that polished restreint of style which is called classical, are the charms of the wolume."--SPECTATOR. Doyle (Sir F. H.).—Works lvy Sir FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE, Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford :-. THE RETURN OF TIIE GUARDS, AND UTIJER POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 75. * Good winc needs no bush, nor gooid verse ( prelucr; an Sir firancis Doyle's vcrses run bright and clear, and smuck v/ a classic inintage. .. llis chief characteristic, as it is his greatest charm, is the simple manliness which gives force to all heavitus. It is a characteristic in these days rare enough."-EXAMINER. LECTURES ON POETRY, delivered before the University of Oxford in 1868. Extra crown 8vo. 35. 6il. THREE LECTURES :-(1) Inaugural ; (2) Frozvincial Poetry: (3) Dr. Newman's "Dream of Gerontrus." “Full of thoughtful discrimmation and fine insight: the luture on * Provincial Poetry seems to us singularly th 112, ciment, and instructice." SPECTATOR. Evans.---BROTIIER FABIA'S MANUSCRIPT, AND) OTHER POEMS. By SENASTIAN EVANS, Fcap. 8vo. cloth. 6s. In this volume we have full assurance that he has the vision and the faculty livine.' . . . Clever and full of kindly humour."-GLOBE.

·POETRY'S BELLES LETTRES. 23 28. 6d. 6. Furnivall.-LE MORTE D'ARTHUR. Edited from the Ilarlcian M.S. 2252, in the British Museum. By F. J. FURNIVALL, M.A. With Essay by the late HERBERT COLERIDGE. Fcap. 8vo. 75. 6d. Looking to the interest shown by so many thousands in 1:[r. Tennyson's Arthuriun purms, the elitor and publishers have thought that the old i'ersion would possess considerable interest. It is a reprint of the celebrated llarlciun cupy; and is liomfanai by index and glossary. Garnett.-IDYLLS AND EPIGRAMS. Chiefly from the Greek Anthology. By RICHARD GARNETT. Fcap. 8vo. A charming little book. for English railrs, Atr. Garnett's translalutions will ofen a new world of thought."-WESTMINSTER REVIEW. GUESSES AT TRUTII. By Two BROTISERS. With Vignette, Title, and Frontispiece. New Edition, with Meinoir. I'cap. 8vo. 6s. “ The follning jurar quas nemorable for the commencement of the * Gresses at Truth.' lle ami his Oxford brother, long as they did in constant and free interchange of thought on questions of philosophy and terture and art; dilighting, each of them, in the epigrammatic terseness zuhuh is the charm of the Pensiis' of Puscul, and the Caractères' of La Bruyère-grenet tv utter thenselies in this form, anit the book appeared, nonymously', in two volumes, in 1827." --MEMOIR. Hamerton.-A PAINTER'S CAMP. By PHILIP GILBERT TAMERTON. Second Edition, revised. Extra fcap. 8vo. Os. BOUK I. In England; Book II. In Scotland; BOOK III. In France. This is the story of an Irtist's encampments and adventures. The headings of a few chapters may sert'e 10 conc'ey al notion of the churcter of the book: A Walk on the Lancashire Moors; the Author his own Ilousekeeper and Couk ; Tents and Boats for the Ilighlands; The sluthor encamps on an uninhabited Island; A Lake Voyage ; A Gipsy Journey to Glen Coe; Concerning Blounlight and Old Casties ; A little lirench City; A Farm in the Autunois, Sve. Soc. "Ilis pages spurkle with happy turns of expression, nut a few well-told nardotes, and many observations which are the fruit of attentive study and ·24 GENERAL CATALOGUE. wise reflection on the complicateil phenomena vf human life, as well as of unconscious nature,"_WLSTMINSTER REVIEW. Helps.--REALMAII. By ARTHUR HIELI'). Two Vols. Crown 8vo. 16s. Of this work, by the Author of "Friends in Cunnil," the Saturılay Review saj's: linderneath the form that of dialogue) is so much shroud. ness, funci', and above all, so much wise kudress, that we shoulil think all the better of a man or woman who likes the book." Herschel.--TULILIAI) OF TIONER. Translated into English Hexameters. By Sir John TIERSCHIEL, Bart. 8vo. 18s. A zvrsion of the Ilind in English llerometers. The question of Ilomerne translation is fully discussed in the Provinces “It is amrahlı, not only for many intrins merils, but as a great man's tribute to Genius."-ILUSTRATE) LONDOX VERS. HATUS: the Void in Modern Education. Its (ause und Antidote By ()utis. Svo. 8s. 61, The main object of this lisser is to point out how the cmtumnal clement which inderlus the line 1rts is disirgudi um nach pod ut this time su fur us (despite « pretence al filling it up) lo constitute an Educational Iliutus, HYMNI ECCLESIÆ. Sce "TILOLOGICAL SHTIOX." Kennedy. - LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS. Collected and Narratoil ly l'ATRICK KENNEDY. Crown 8vo. 75. 6d. "A very admirable popular selection of the Irish fairy stories and legends, in which those who are fumiliar with Ir. Croker's, and other selections of the same kind, will find much that is fresh, and full of the peculiar vivacity and humour, and sometimes ez'en of the ideal beauty', of the true Celtic Legend."-SPECTATOR.

·POETRY E BELLES LETTRES. 25 Kingsley (Canon).---Sev also "HIISTORIC Section,” “Works OF FICTION," and "PILLOSOPHY;" also "JUVENILE BOOKS," anul" TUEOLOGY." 19 THE SAINTS TRAGEDY: or, The True Story of Elizabeth uf Hungary. By the Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY. With a Preface by the Rev. F. D. MARICE. Third Edition. Fcap. 8v1). 5.5. ANDROMEDA, ANI) OTIIER POEMS. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 55. Third PITAETION ; or, Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers. Elition. Crown Svo. 29. Kingsley (Henry).--Sx"WORKS OF FICTION." Lowell.UNDEK TIE WILLOWS, AND OTHER POEMS By JAMES RUSSELL. LOUELL. Fcap. 8vo. Os. “Under the Willows is one of the most admirable bits of w/yllic work, short «rs il is, or perhups berunse it is short, that hat'e been done vil our gene's rut."-SATURDAY REVIEW, 12s, ou Masson (Professor).--ESSAI'S, BIOGRAPHICAL, AND CRITICAL. Chiefly on the British Poets. By DAVID MASSON, LL.1)., Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh. 8vo. Distinguished by a rimarkable pozelor of analysis, a ilar statement of the artual firits on which speculation is basert, and an appropriate beauty of Language. These essuys should be popular anth serious men. ATHLNÆUM. 66 19 BRITISTI NOVELISTS AND TIIEIR STYLES. Being a Critical Sketch of the IIistory of British Prosc Fiction. Crown 8vo. 7s.61. " Valuable for its lucid analysis of fundamental principles, its breadth of view, and sustained animation of style."-SPECTATOR.

·26 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Mistral (F.).—MIRELLE: a Pastoral Epic of Provence. Translated by H. CRICHTON. Extra ſcap. 8vo. 6s. "This is a capital translation of the clegant ana richly-coloured pastoral epic poem of 11. Alistral which, in 1859, he dedicated wit enthusiastic terins to Lamartine, It would be haril to Oz'er praise the sweeetness and pleasing freshness of this charming pic."-ATHENAEUM. 25. 6d. Myers (Ernest).-TILE PURITANS. By Ernest MYERS. Extra fcap. Svo. cloth. It is not too much to call it a really grand poem, stately and dignified, and sharing not only a high poetic mnd, but also great porter vier poetic expression."-LITERARY CHURCHIMAN. Myers (F. W. H.)--ST. PAUL. A Poem. By F. W. H. Myers. Second Edition. Extra fcap. 8vo. 2. 61. "It lircathes throughout the spirit of St. Paul, and ivith a singular stately melody of verse."-FURTNICIICLY RUTEW. Nettleship.- ESSAYS ON ROBERT BROWNING'S POETRY. By Join T. NETTLESHIP. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s, 6d. Noel.-BEATRICE, AND OTHER POEMS. By the Ilon. RODEN NOEL Fcap. 8vo. Os. “ Beatrice is in many respects a noble poem ; it displays a splendour of landscape painting, a strong definile precision of highly-coloured descrip tion, which has not often been surpassed." ---I'ALT. MALL GAZETTE. Norton.-THE LADY OF LA GARAYE. By the Hon. MRS NORTON. With Vignette and Frontispiece. Sixth Edition Fcap. 8vo. 45. 6d. “ There is no lack of vigour, no faltering of purver, plenty of passion, much bright description, much musical verse. ... Full of thoughts wellexpressed, and may be classed among her best works."-TIMES.

·POETRY E BELLES LETTRES.
27
Orwell.-THE BISHOPS WALK AND THE BISHOP'S
TIMES. L'ocms on the days of Archbishop Leighton and the
Scottish Covenant. By ORWELL. Fcap. 8vo. 5s.
"Pure taste and faultless precision of language, the fruits of deep thought,
insight into human nature, and lively sympathy."-NONCONFORMIST.
Palgrave (Francis T.).-ESSAYS ON ART. By FRANCIS
TURNER PALGRAVE, M.A., late Fellow of Exeter College,
Oxford. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s.
Aſulmudy--- Ille--Ilolman Ilunt ---Ierbert-Poetry, Prose, ana Serta
sationalism in Art-Sculpture in England --The Ilbert Cross, &c.
SIIAKESPEARE'S SONNETS AND SONGS. Edited by F. T.
PALGRAVE. Gem Edition. With Vignette Title by Jeens. 35. 6d.
Gom
" For minute clegance nu zolume could possibly excel the
Edition.'"-SCOTSMAN.
Patmore.Works by COVENTRY PATMORE :-
THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE.
BOOK I. The Bitrothal; Book II. The Espousals; BOOK III.
Frithjul for Ezer. With Tamcrton Church Torder, 720 vols. fcap.
Svo.
125.
*** A Vow and Charp Edition in one zol. 18mo., beautifully printed on
toned papir, price 25. 6d.
THE VICTORIES OF LOVE. Fcap. 8vo. 45. 6d.
The intrinsic merit of his poem will secure it a permanent place in
literature. Ar. Patmore has fully earned a place in the catalogue
of pocls by the finished idealization of domestic life."-SATURDAY
REVIEW.

·28 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Rossetti.--Works by CHRISTINA ROSSETTI :- GOBLIN MARKET, AND OTHER POEMS. With two Designs by D. G. Rossetti. Sccond Edition. F'cap. 8vo. 5s. "She handles her littlc marvel auth that rare poetie discrimination which neither exhausts it of its simple wonders by pushing symbolism too far, nor keeps those onders in the merely fabulous and capricious stagt: In fact she has promed a true childrn's poem, which is for more delightful to the mature thun to children, though it tevuld be delightful to all." SPECTATOR. TIIE PRIXCE'S PROGRESS, AND OTHER POEMS, With two. Designs by D. G. ROSSETTI, Fcap. 8vo. 6.. "Miss Rossetti's pooms are of the kind which ruails Shelky's difimtion of Puitry as the record of the best and happust moments of the best and happust minds. They are like the piping of a bird on the spray in the sunshin, or the qunnt singing auth which a child amuses atie!! when it forgets thut anybody is listening."-. SAI RDAY REVIEW. . Rossetti (W. M.).—DANTE'S HELL. See " DANTE." FINE ART, chiefly Contemporary. By William M. ROSSETTI. Crown 8vo. IOs, 6id. This volume consists of Criticism on Contemporary Irt, reprinteil from Fraser, The Saturday Review, The Pall Mall Gazette, and other publications. Raby.--STORY OF A HOUSEHOLI), AND OTHER POEMS. By MARY K. Rory. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. Shairp (Principal).-KILMAHOE, a Ilighland Pastoral, with other l'ocms. By Joun CAMBELL SHAIKP. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. “ Kilmahoe is a Highland Pastoral, redolent of the warm soft air of the Western Lochs and Moors, sketched out with remarkable grace and picturesqueness." --SATURDAY Review, ·POETRY S BELLES LETTRES. 29 Smith.--Works by ALEXANDER SMIT! :-- A LIFE DRAMA, ANI) OTIIER POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 25, 6.2. CITY POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. EDWIN OF DEIRA. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. "A pou'm which is markeit Inge the strength, sustained succtness, and compact tcxture of real life."-NORTI BRITISI REVIEW. Smith.-POEAS. BY CATHERINE BARNARD SMITH. Fcap. 8vo. 55. Il’ealthy in ferling, meaning, finish, and grace; not without passion, which is suppressed, but the kerner for that."—ATUPNEUM. Smith (Rev. Walter).-JIYMNS OF CHRIST AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. By the Rev. WALTER C. SMITHI, M.A. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. “ These are among the speeetest surred poems we have read for a long time. With no profuse imagery', crpressing a range of feeling and expression by 1l. meuns uncommon, they are true and clezatent, and their pathos is profound and simple."--NONCONFORMIST. Stratford de Redcliffe (Viscount).-SHADOWS OF TIIE PIST, in Verse. By VISCOUNT STRATFORD DE RID- Crown Svo. 10.s. 60. CLIFFE. “ The zuigeous words of one who has acted vigorously. They combine the fervour of politician and poet." GUARDIAN. Trench.--Works by R. CHENEVIX TRENCI, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. See also Sections "PHILOSOPJIY, "THEOLOGY," &c. POEMS. Collected and arranged anew. Fcap. 8vo. 75. 6d ELEGIAC POEMS. Fcap. 8vo. 25, 6it.

·30 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Trench (Archbishop), (continued)- CALDERON'S LIFE'S A DREAM: The Great Theatre of the World. With an Essay on his Life and Genius. Fcap. 8vo. fus. 6d. HOUSEHOLD BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by R. C. TRENCH, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, Extra fcap. 8vo. 55. 6d. This colume is called " Tlouschold Book," by this name implying that it is a book for all--that there is nothing in it to protuint it from being confidently placed in the hands of every member of the household. Speci. mens of all classes of poetry are given, including selections from living authors. The Editor has aimed to produce a book "which the emigrant, finding room for little not absolutely ricressury, might uit find room for in his trunk, and the travellcr in his knapsack, and that on some narrow shelves where there are few books this might be one." “The Archbishop has conferred in this delightful zvirme an important gift on the whole English-spruking population of the world." -PALL MALL GAZETTE. SACRED LATIN POETRY, Chiefly Lyrical. Selected and arranged for Use. Second Edition, Corrccted and Improved. Fcap. 8vo. 75. “The arm of the present volume is to offer to members of our English Church a collection of the best sacred Latin poctry, such as they shall be able entirely and heartily to accept and approve-a collection, that is, in which they shall not be evermore liable to be offended, and to have the current of their sympathies checked, by coming upon that which, however beautiful as poetry, out of higher respects they must reject and condemn-in which, tow, they shall not fear that snares are being laid for them, to entangle them unawares in admiration for vught which is inconsistent with their faith and fealty to their own spiritual mother."_PREFACE.

·POETRY E BELLES LETTRES. 31 Turner.--SONNETS. By the Rev. CHARLES TENXYSON TURNER. Dedicated to his brother, the Poet Laureate. Fcap. 8vo. 45. 61. "The Sonnets are dedicated to Mr. Tennyson hy his brother, and have, independently of their merits, an interest of tissociation. They both love to write in simpie expressive Saxon; both love to touch their imagery in epithets rather than in formal similes; both haze u delicate perception of rythmicul monument, and thus Mr. Turner has occasional lines which, for phrazie ant musır, might be ascribed to his brother. . . . Ile knows he hunnls of the ani rost, the shady woks where light quiters through heleuves, theruralitics, in short, of thelund of imagination." --ATHENÆUM. SMALL TABLEAUX. Fcap. 8vo. 45. 6.1. “These linnet poenis have not only a pcculier kind of interist for the student of tinglish pocry, but are intrinsically delightful, and will revara a careful and frequent perusal. Full of nnet, piety, love, and knowledge of naturil objects, and auch erpressVIA ! single and generally a simple subject by means of minute and original putorial touches, these sonnets have a place of their own." - PALI. MALL GAZETTE, Vittoria Colonna.-LIFE AND POEMS. By Mrs. HENRY Roscor. Crown 8vo. Is. The life of Vittoria Colonna, the celebrated Marchesa di Pescara, has received but cursory notice from any English writer, though in etery history of Italy her name is mentioned with great honour among the ports of the sixteenth century. “In three hundred and fifty years," says her biographer l'isconti, “there has been no other Itulrun lady who can be compared to her." " It is written with good taste, with quick and intelligent sympathy, occasionally with a real freshness and charm of style."--PALL MALL GAZETTE ·32 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Webster.--Works by AUGUSTA WEBSTER :-- DRAMATIC STUDIES. Extra ſcap. 8vo. 55. A volume as strongly marked by perfert tuste as hy poetic prever." NONCONFORMIST. $6 PROMETHEUS BOUND OF ASCHYLUS. Literally translated into English Verse. Extra fcap. 8vo. 35. 6d. Closeness and simplicity combined with literary skill."-ATHENAEUM. MEDEA OF EURIPIDES. Literally translated into English Verse. Extra fcap. Svo. 35. 61/. Mrs. Ilebster's translation surpasses our utmost expectations. It is a photograph of the original without any of that harshness which so often accompanies a photograph."-.-WESTMINSTER REVIEW. A WOMAN SOLD, AND OTHER POEMS. Crown 8vo. 75. 6d. "Mrs. IVebster has shown us that she is able to draw admirably from the life; that she can obseri'c with subtlety, and render her observations with delicacy; that she can impersonate complex conceptions, und venture into which few living writers can follozo her." -GUARDIAN. Woolner.-MY BEAUTIFUL LADY. By Thomas WOOLNER. With a Vignette by ARTHUR HUGHES. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 55. " It is clearly the product of no idle hour, but a highly-conceived and faithfully-executed task, self-imposed, and prompted by that inward yearn. ing to utter great thoughts, and a wealth of passionate fioling which is poetic genius. No man can read this poem without being struck by the fitness and finish of the workmanship, so to speak, as well as by the chas. tened and unpretending loftiness of thought which pervades the whole." CLONI. WORDS FROM THE POETS. Selected by the Editor of "Rays of Sunlight." With a Vignette and Frontispiece. 18mo. Extra cloth gilt. 2s. 6d. Cheaper Edition, 18mo. limp., Is.

·GLOBE EDITION S. UNDER the title GLOBE EDITIONS, the Publishers are issuing a uniform Series of Standard English Authors, carefully edited, clearly and elegantly printed on toned paper, strongly bound, and at a sinall cost. The names of the Editors whom they have been fortunate enough to secure constitute an indisputable guarantee as to the character of the Series. The greatest care has been taken to ensure accuracy of text; adequate notes, elucidating historical, literary, and philological points, have been supplied; and, to the older Authors, glossaries are appended. The series is especially adapted to Students of our national Literature; while the small price places good editions of certain books, hitherto popularly inaccessible, within the reach of all. Shakespeare.-THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Edited by W. G. CLARK and W. ALDIS WRICHT. Ninety-first Thousand. Globe 8vo. 35. 6d. "A marvcl of beauty, cheapness, and compactness. The whole worksplays, poems, and sonnets-are contained in one small volume: yet the page is perfectly clear and readable. For the busy man, above all for the working Student, the Globe Edition is the best of all existing Shakespeare books.". ATHENÆUM.

·34 GENERAL CATALOGUE. Morte D'Arthur.-SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by SIR EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. Globe 8vo. 35. 6d. Third Edition. "It is with the most perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.”—PALL MALI GAZETTE. Scott.-THE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, With Biographical Essay, by F. T. PALGRAVE. Globe 8vo. 35. 6d. “As a popular edition it leaves nothing to be desired. The want of such an one has long been felt, combining real excellence with cheapness." SPECTATOR. Burns.-THE POETICAL WORKS AND LETTERS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited, with Life, by ALEXANDER SMITH. Globe 8vo. 35. 60. "The works of the bard have never been offered in such a complete form in a single volunie."--GLASGOW DAILY HERALD. "Admirable in all respects." SPECTATOR, 1 Robinson Crusoe.-THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, By DEFOE. Edited, from the Original Edition, by J. W. CLARK, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. With Introduction by HENRY KINGSLEY. Globe Svo. 3.5. 6d. “ The Globe Edition of Robinson Crusoe is a book to have and to keep. It is printed after the original editions, with the quaint old spelling, and is published in admirable style as regards type, paper, and binding. A well-written and genial biographical introduction, by Mr. Henry Kingsley, is likewise an attractive feature of this edition." -MORNING STAR.

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·36 GENERAL CAT:ILOGLE. “ Messrs. Macmillan have, in their Golden Treasury Series especially, provided editions of standard works, volumes of selected poetry, ana original compositions, which entitle this series to be called classical. Nothing can be better than the literary execution, nothing more clegant than the material workmanship."-BRITISII QUARTERLY REVIEW. THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE. “This delightful little volume', the Golden Treasury', which contains many of the best original lyrıcal pieces and songs in our language, grouped with care and skill, so as to illustrate euch other like the pictures in a well-arranged gallery.".-QUARTERLY REVIEW, THE CHILDREN'S GARLAND FROM THE BEST POETS, Selected and arranged by COVENTRY PATMORE. "It includes specimens of all the great masters in the art of poetry, selected with the matured judgment of a man concentrated on obtaining insight into the feelings and tustes of childhooil, and desirous to awaken its finest impulses, to cultivate its keenest sensibilities." -MORNING POST. THE BOOK OF PRAISE. From the Best English Hymn Writers. Selected and arranged by Sir ROUNDELL PALMER. A New and Enlarged Edition. "All previous compilations of this kind must undeniably for the present give place to the Book of Praise. The selection has been made throughout with sound judgment and critical taste. The pains involved in this compilation must have been immense, embracing, as it does, every writer of note in this special province of English literature, and ranging over the most widely divergent tracts of religious thought."-SATURDAY Review.

·GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. 37 THE FAIRY BOOK; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered ancw by the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN." “A delightful selection, in a delightful external form ; full of the physical splendour and vast opulence of proper fairy tales."-SPECTATOR. THE BALLAD BOOK. A Selection of the Choicest British Ballads. Edited by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. " His taste as a judge of old poetry will be found, by all acquainted with the various rendings of old English ballads, true enough to justify his undertaking so critical a task."-SATURDAY Review, THE JEST BOOK. The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings. Selected and arranged by MARK LEMON. "The fullest and best jest buok that has yet appeared.”-SATURDAY REVIEW. BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A. "The beautiful little edition of Bacon's Essays, now before us, does credit to the taste and scholarship of Mr. Aldis Wright. :.. It puts the reader in possession of all the essential literary facts and chronology necessary for reading the Essays in connexion with Bacon's life and tinies."-SPECTATOR. * By far the most complete as well as the most elegant edition we possess."-WESTMINSTER REVIEW. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS from this world to that which is to come. By JOHN BUNYAN. A beautiful and scholarly reprint."--SPECTATOR.

·38 GENERAL CATALOGUE. THE SUNDAY BOOK OF POETRY FOR THE YOUNG. Selected and arranged by C. F. ALEXANDER. “A well-selected volume of sacred poetry.”-SPECTATOR. A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS of all Times and all Countries. Gathered and narrated anew. By the Author of “THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE.” "... To the young, for whom it is especially intended, as a most interesting collection of thrilling tales well told; and to their elders, as a useful handbook of reference, and a pleasant one to take up when their wish is to while away a weary half-hour. We have seen no prettier gift-book for a long time."-ATHENÆUM. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited, with Biographical Memoir, Notes, and Glossary, by ALEXANDER SMITH. Two Vols. "Beyond all question this is the most beautiful edition of Burns yet out."--EDINBURGH DAILY REVIEW. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. Edited from the Original Edition by J. W. CLARK, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. " Mutilated and modified editions of this English classic are so much the rule, that a cheap and pretty copy of it, rigidly exact to the original, will be a prize to many book-buyers."--EXAMINER. THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO. TRANSLATED into ENGLISH, with Notes, by J. LI. DAVIES, M.A. and D. J. VAUGHAN, M.A. "A dainty and cheap little edition." --EXAMINER.

·GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES. 39 THE SONG BOOK. Words and Tunes from the best Poets and Musicians. Selected and arranged by JOHN HULLAH, Professor of Vocal Music in King's College, London. “A choice collection of the sterling songs of England, Scotland, ana Ireland, with the music of each prefixed to the words. How much true wholesome pleasure such a hook con diffuse, and will diffuse, we trust, through many thousand families.”—EXAMINER. LA LYRE FRANÇAISE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by GUSTAVE MASSON, French Master in Harrow School. A selection of the best French songs and lyrical pieces. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. By an Old Boy. " A perfect gem of a book. The best and most healthy book about boys for boys that ever was written."-ILLUSTRATED Times.

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