And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath 3. The garlands wither on your brow; Then boast no more your mighty deeds; See where the victor victim bleeds! To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. SHIRLEY. BUSY, CURIOUS, THIRSTY FLY. 1. Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I ; 2. Both alike are mine and thine, Threescore summers, when they 're gone, Will appear as short as one. ANONYMOUS, 1744. ASPIRATIONS OF YOUTH. [JAMES MONTGOMERY, poet and journalist, of Sheffield, born 4th November, 1771, published "Wanderer in Switzerland" in 1806, "The West Indies" in 1809, "Greenland" in 1810, "World before the Flood" in 1812, and "The Pelican Island" in 1827. He died 30th April, 1854.] 1. HIGHER, higher will we climb That our names may live through time 2. Deeper, deeper let us toil In the mines of knowledge; 3. Onward, onward may we press Excellence true beauty: Minds are of celestial birth, 4. Closer, closer let us knit Hearts and hands together, MONTGOMERY. B YARROW STREAM. [JOHN LOGAN, born 1748, after completing his literary and theological course at the University of Edinburgh, became minister of South Leith. In 1781 he published a volume of poems, and in the same year "Elements of the Philosophy of History." He died 28th December, 1788.] 1. THY banks were bonnie, Yarrow stream, Thou art to me a stream of sorrow; Behold my love-the flower of Yarrow! 3. He promised me a milk-white horse, To bear me to his father's bowers; He promised me a little page, To squire me to his father's towers. 4. He promised me a wedding-ring, The wedding-day was fixed to-morrow; 5. Sweet were his words when last we met, That I should never more behold him. 6. Scarce was he gone, I saw his ghost- 7. His mother from the window looked, With all the longing of a mother r; His little sister, weeping, walked The greenwood path to meet her brother. 8. They sought him east, they sought him west, They sought him all the forest thorough ; They only saw the clouds of night— They only heard the roar of Yarrow! 9. No longer from thy window look Thou hast no son, thou tender mother! 10. No longer seek him east or west, No longer search the forest thorough, 11. The tears shall never leave my cheek, No other youth shall be my marrow; I'll seek thy body in the stream, And there with thee I'll sleep in Yarrow ! 12. The tear did never leave her cheek, No other youth became her marrow; And with him now she sleeps in Yarrow. JOHN LOGAN. Rises Yarrow. The most classic stream in Scotland. in the south-west of Selkirkshire, and forms a small lake called the Loch of the Lowes, which communicates with the larger Lake of St. Mary's. The Yarrow joins the Ettrick a little above Selkirk, and the united streams fall into the Tweed. The stream is famous in Border story, and meets us in many of the old ballads, and in the writings of Scott and Hogg. Logan's ballad is a very good illustration of the kind of tales associated with the Yarrow. Wordsworth has two exquisite little poems on this stream entitled respectively, "Yarrow Unvisited," written in 1803, and "Yarrow Visited," written in 1814. THE BLIND CHILD. [ROBERT BLOOMFIELD, born 3rd December, 1766, author of "Farmer's Boy," published in 1800, and "Rural Tales,” published in 1802, died 19th August, 1823.] WHERE's the blind child, so admirably fair, |