The incense-swinging child,-undone God, whom I praise; how could I praise, And bargain for his love, and stand, IL-MADHOUSE CELL. PORPHYRIA'S LOVER. THE rain set early in to-night, She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm; Which done, she rose, and from her form Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl, And laid her soiled gloves by, untied Her hat and let the damp hair fall, And, last, she sate down by my side And called me. When no voice replied, She put my arm about her waist, And made her smooth white shoulder bare, And all her yellow hair displaced, And, stooping, made my cheek lie there, And spread o'er all her yellow hair, Too weak, for all her heart's endeavour, And give herself to me forever: A sudden thought of one so pale For love of her, and all in vain ; That moment she was mine, mine, fair, A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound I warily oped her lids; again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened next the tress And all night long we have not stirred, THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR 1842. As I ride, as I ride, L With a full heart for my guide, So its tide rocks my side, As I ride, as I ride, That, as I were double-eyed, He, in whom our Tribes confide, Is descried, ways untried As I ride, as I ride. As I ride, as I ride II. To our Chief and his Allied, Who dares chide my heart's pride Or are witnesses denied Through the desert waste and wide Do I glide unespied As I ride, as I ride? As I ride, as I ride, III. When an inner voice has cried, The sands slide, nor abide (As I ride, as I ride) O'er each visioned Homicide That came vaunting (has he lied?) To reside-where he died, As I ride, as I ride. As I ride, as I ride, IV. Ne'er has spur my swift horse plied, Yet his hide, streaked and pied, As I ride, as I ride, Shows where sweat has sprung and dried -Zebra-footed, ostrich-thighed— How has vied stride with stride As I ride, as I ride As I ride, as I ride, V. Could I loose what Fate has tied, As I ride, as I ride, All that's meant me: satisfied When the Prophet and the Bride Stop veins I'd have subside As I ride, as I ride! . HAMELIN Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. Rats! II. They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, |