Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.