I hear them in tempests, I see them in cloud In the voice of the thunder They reason aloud. Though gold has its friendships Have friends of my own, All saints and apostles, All sages and poets, Are teachers of mine My friends and my teachers Wherever I roam, The guides of my spirit, The lights of my home! And, crown of all riches, Far better than pelf, I've a true heart who loves me For sake of myself. With these and my patience, And strength to endure, My health, and my honour, How can I be poor ? CHARLES MACKAY. THE HILLS. UPON the hills, upon the hills! The ever fresh and free! To bound along with the living breeze In life's throng'd vale I do but move, Oh! for a painter's hand, To catch the gloom or glow O'er the boundless prospect throw! The aged thorn, the copsewood oak, And the lights that shoot between. The tricolor polygala That springs beneath my feet, Spangling the turf so sweet; My earliest childhood loved To gather these fair flowers; And I love them still for their own sweet selves, And the memory of past hours. Upon the hills, the mighty hills, Their summits in the skies! And must I quit your freedom, The crowded haunts of men? Yes,-life is not for rapture, But for willing self-denial; For faith, and love, and righteousness, Still perfected by trial. Then, onward! in well-doing: Tread selfish visions down; Not indolent emotion, But patience wins the crown. And, when wearied in life's battle, Let the thought of hours like these Refresh thy fainting spirit, As the fanning of the breeze. But,-chiefest,-onward,-upward, Be fix'd thine earnest sight, Where rise the Everlasting Hills, Where the pure in heart shall see And TRUTH is—LIBERTY. REV. H. S. ESCOTT. THE SOUL'S ERRAND. [This bold and spirited little Poem, dating as early as 1593, has been ascribed to several Authors, but to none on satisfactory authority.] Go, Soul, the body's guest, Go, tell the Court it glows, Tell potentates they live, Tell men of high condition Tell them that brave it most, Tell Zeal it lacks devotion, Tell Age it daily wasteth, |