CXCVI.

"I ASKED of Time: To whom arose this high
Majestic pile, here mouldering in decay?
He answered not, but swifter sped his way,
With ceaseless pinions winnowing the sky.
To Fame I turned: Speak thou, whose sons defy
The waste of years, and deathless works essay !
She heaved a sigh, as one to grief a prey,
And silent, downward cast her tearful eye.
Onward I passed, but sad and thoughtful grown,
When, stern in aspect, o'er the ruined shrine,
I saw oblivion stalk from stone to stone."

1. To impress deeply.

2. A Scotch physician and author.

3. A malignant disease.

4. A universal remedy.

5. A brittle fusible metal.

6. The son of Appaim.
7. Sharpened to a point.

8. A Queen of Babylon.

CXCVII.

"ON a soft mossy bank I sit lazily down,
And consider what food for reflection I've got-
From yon hawthorn thicket the turtle's soft note
Entrances my soul as it coos to its mate;

I think of the turtle that's tickled my throat,
The green fat, calipash, calipee that I've ate.
A brood of young ducks in the water I see,
That pond's like pea-soup, it's so thick and so green;
After well-devilled whitebait, as all must agree,
A duckling of Rouen's a dish for a queen!

'Love rules,' says the poet, the camp, court, and

grove;

Lovegrove! ah! what visions these words can awaken!

At Grove's I can purchase the fish that I love, And at Lovegrove's, oh, oh! what repasts I have taken."

1. A Christmas mummer.

2. Loss of speech.

3. A town of European Russia.

4. The blackbird.

5. A traveller in Africa.

6. A river of South America.

7. A continual disputation.

CXCVIII.

"UPON the pillars of the temple laid

His desperate hands, and in its overthrow Destroyed himself, and with him those who made A cruel mockery of his sightless woe; This poor blind one, the scoff and jest of all, Expired, and thousands perished in the fall!

And there are other poor blind people in this land, Shorn of their strength, and bound in bonds of

steel,

Who may, in some grim revel, raise a hand,
And shake the pillars of this Commonweal
Till the vast temple of our liberties

A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies."

1. Where Xerxes built the bridge of boats. 2. Constituting a model.

3. The mother of Triptolemus.

4. A city of European Russia.

5. It allays irritability.

6. A handsome Greek.

CXCIX.

"LAUGH of the mountain! lyre of bird and tree!
Pomp of the meadows! mirror of the morn!
The soul of April, with whom are born
The rose and jessamine leaps wild in thee!
Although, where'er thy devious current strays,
The lap of earth with gold and silver teems;
To me thy clear proceeding brighter seems

Than golden sands, that charm each shepherd's gaze.
How without guile thy bosom, all transparent

As the pure crystal, lets the curious eye

Thy secrets scan, thy smooth, round pebbles count! Thou shun'st the haunts of man to dwell in limpid fount!"

1. A Turkish viceroy.

2. One of the first cities taken

by the Crusaders.

3. Additional beauty.

4. To swing.

5. More sympathetic.

CC.

"MY way is on the bright blue sea, My sleep upon its rocky tide;

And many an eye hath followed me, Where billows clasp the worn sea-side; Full many a fathom down beneath

The bright arch of the splendid deep, My ear hath heard the sea-shell breathe O'er living myriads in their sleep; They rested by the coral throne,

And by the pearly diadem,

Where the pale sea-grape had o'ergrown The glorious dwellings made for them."

1. Very obstinate.

2. The beautiful parricide.

3. A town of European Russia.

4. Wolf's-bane.

5. A worker of iron.