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The stately camel bends the knee :-
Love, hear my lute-" "Tis all for thee."

There morn is like a new-waked rose,
And like a rosy shower the noon;
And evening, like a sweet song's close;
And like a sun half veiled, the moon.
But dark my Paradise will be:-
Soul of my soul, I die for thee.

THERE MAY BE PLEASURE IN THE
SOUND.

THERE may be pleasure in the sound
Of trumpets in the battle wailing,
And joy to hear the vessel bound
Along the summer billows sailing;
But never sound so sweet can be
As voice of female melody!

There may be joy to list the chime

Of horn and hound, 'mid green hills ringing, And, in the Spring's calm evening time,

To hear the thrush and blackbird singing; But never sound so sweet can be

As voice of female melody!

But sweet though be that silvery voice
In hours of pleasure or of sorrow,

Its tones best bid the heart rejoice,

When soft affection's words they borrow.
Oh! then what sounds so sweet can be
As voice of female melody?

A DRINKING SONG.

BY LORD BYRON.

FILL the goblet again! for I never before

Felt the glow that now gladdens my heart to its core ; Let us drink?-Who would not? since through life's varied round

In the goblet alone no deception is found.

I have tried in its turn all that life can supply;
I have basked in the beam of a dark rolling eye;
I have loved!-Who has not ?-but what tongue will
declare,

That pleasure existed whilst passion was there!

In the days of my youth-when the heart's in its spring,

And dreams that affection can never take wing,—
I had friends!—Who has not?—but what tongue will

avow

That friends, rosy wine, are so faithful as thou!

The breast of a mistress some boy may estrange; Friendship shifts with the sunbeam;-thou never canst change;

Thou growest old-Who does not?-but on earth what appears,

Whose virtues like thine but increase with their years.

Yet if blest to the utmost that love can bestow,
Should a rival bow down to our idol below;
We are jealous!-Who's not?-thou hast no such
alloy,

For the more that enjoy thee, the more they enjoy.

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A DRINKING SONG.

Then the season of Youth and its jollities past,
For refuge we fly to the goblet at last;

There we find-Do we not?-in the flow of the soul,
That truth, as of yore, is confined to the bowl.

When the Box of Pandora was opened on earth,
And Misery's triumph commenced over Mirth,
Hope was left!-Was she not?-but the goblet we
kiss,

And care not for hope who are certain of bliss!

Long life to the grape, and when summer is flown,
The age of our nectar shall gladden our own;
We must die!-Who shall not?-may our sins be
forgiven,

And Hebe shall never be idle in Heaven!

TO LORD BYRON*.

BY THOMAS MOORE.

WHY hast thou bound around, with silver rim,
This once gay peopled palace of the soul?
Look on it now! deserted, bleached, and grim,
Is this, thou feverish man, thy festal bowl?

Is this the cup wherein thou seek'st the balm,
Each brighter chalice to thy lip denies?
Is this the oblivious bowl whose floods becalm,
The worm that will not sleep and never dies?

• On reading his 'Stanzas on the Silver Foot of a Skull mounted as a Cup for Wine.'

Woe to the lip to which this cup is held!
The lip that's pall'd with every purer draught;
For which alone the rifled grave can yield
A goblet worthy to be deeply quaff'd.

Strip, then, this glittering mockery from the skull,
Restore the relic to its tomb again;
And seek a healing balm within the bowl,
The blessed bowl that never flow'd in vain!

THE AMERICAN EAGLE.

BY CHARLES WEST THOMPSON.

BIRD of the heavens! whose matchless eye
Alone can front the blaze of day,
And, wand'ring through the radiant sky,
Ne'er from the sunlight turns away;
Whose ample wing was made to rise
Majestick o'er the loftiest peak,
On whose chill tops the winter skies,
Around thy nest, in tempests speak.
What ranger of the winds can dare,
Proud mountain king! with thee compare;
Or lift his gaudier plumes on high
Before thy native majesty,

When thou hast ta'en thy seat alone,
Upon thy cloud-encircled throne?

Bird of the cliffs! thy noble form

Might well be thought almost divine;
Born for the thunder and the storm,

The mountain and the rock are thine;

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THE AMERICAN EAGLE.

And there, where never foot has been,
Thy eyry is sublimely hung,
Where louring skies their wrath begin,
And loudest lullabies are sung
By the fierce spirit of the blast,
When, his snow mantle o'er him cast,
He sweeps across the mountain top,
With a dark fury nought can stop,
And wings his wild unearthly way
Far through the clouded realms of day.

Bird of the sun! to thee-to thee
The earliest tints of dawn are known,
And 'tis thy proud delight to see

The monarch mount his gorgeous throne; Throwing the crimson drapery by,

That half impedes his glorious way;
And mounting up the radiant sky,
E'en what he is,-the king of day!
Before the regent of the skies

Men shrink, and veil their dazzled eyes;
But thou, in regal majesty,

Hast kingly rank as well as he;
And with a steady, dauntless gaze,
Thou meet'st the splendour of his blaze.

Bird of Colombia! well art thou

An emblem of our native land;
With unblench'd front and noble brow,
Among the nations doom'd to stand;
Proud, like her mighty mountain woods;
Like her own rivers, wandering free;
And sending forth, from hills and floods,
The joyous shout of liberty!

Like thee, majestic bird! like thee,
She stands in unbought majesty,

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