A SERENADE Look out upon the stars, my love, Sleep not! thine image wakes for aye Where woke the transient smile or tear, We were youths together, And mine weighed down with care; To you came wealth with manhood's prime, We're old men together: The friends we loved of yore, With leaves of autumn weather, How blest to age the impulse given, Which led our thoughts from earth to heaven When you and I were boys! NEAR THE LAKE NEAR the lake where drooped the willow, Where the rock threw back the billow, Dwelt a maid, beloved and cherished But with autumn's leaf she perished, Rock and tree and flowing water, Bee and bird and blossom taught her While to my fond words she listened, Tenderly her dove-eyes glistened, Mingled were our hearts forever, Can I now forget her? - Never! To her grave these tears are given, She's the star I missed from heaven, JEANNIE MARSH JEANNIE MARSH of Cherry Valley, Of all the nine none so divine Jeannie Marsh of Cherry Valley, Of all the nine none so divine A goddess she in form and feature; George Denison Prentice MEMORIES ONCE more, once more, my Mary dear, I breathed love's burning dream. The birds we loved still tell their tale Of music, on each spray, And still the wild-rose decks the vale But thou art far away. In vain thy vanished form I seek, And yet beneath these wild-wood bowers Upon the air thy gentle words Like sounds upon the wind-harp's chords Or like the low and soul-like swell Which haunts the hollow of the bell I seem to hear thee speak my name I seem to feel thy breath of flame NEW ENGLAND FOR A CELEBRATION IN KENTUCKY OF THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS CLIME of the brave! the high heart's home, Laved by the wild and stormy sea! Thy children, in this far-off land, Devote to-day their hearts to thee; Our thoughts, despite of space and time, To-day are in our native clime, Where passed our sinless years, and where Our infant heads first bowed in prayer. Stern land! we love thy woods and rocks, Thy rushing streams, thy winter glooms, And Memory, like a pilgrim gray, Kneels at thy temples and thy tombs: |