When the sinful deed was done I heard (surely to warn me 'twas sent) Alas! Alas! You were happy in my embrace, I suffer-my love never prays. You remember dark Brenta's ford, Death caught me in your embrace, I burn-but my love never prays. Give me back those fresh jessamine bowers, Give me back that lilac-bloom, Alas! Alas! Let me feel the cool dews on my face, I thirst-but my love never prays. In your gondola now you rejoice In another's soft loving voice, Whom my portrait must surely displease For in jealous spite she has cast To the waves that sweet pledge of the past, Why appeal to that last embrace, All is over-my love never prays. સર TRANSLATIONS ROM THE SABRINE COROLLA. THE following versions of some of the German extracts in the Sabrina Corolla have been made in the hope that they may prove of interest to some who are accustomed to use that book, but who are not familiar with the language in which they are written as well as to others who may be pleased to see in an English garb some of the flowers of the anthology culled by an old Johnian, whose perfect taste is as well known as his finished scholarship. PAGE 20. Zeus to Heracles. Not by drinking of my nectar hast thou won thy might divine: Thy God's might it was that gave thee now to drain the heavenly wine.-SCHIller. PAGE 32. Raffaelle may be first of painters; but, before that wondrous Face, Leonardo, who shall dare to give thee but the second place. PAGE 54. Now I comprehend thee, Fate; Not from this world blessing comes; Only in the stilly dreams Of Poësy, its beauty blooms: Thou dost send me pain and wrong, Yet with every pang a song.- UHLAND. PAGE 70. I may not say that in thine eyes The heavens' own azure beameth; May's earliest rose beseemeth. PLATEN. But oh! how fair the spring, if once Blue as thy own blue eyes were spread.-UHLAND. PAGE 72. Not in blasts of chilly north Breathes the rose its fragrance forth. Wouldst thou win this earth's sweet love? Sun thee in the Light above.-W. MUELLER. Every billowy sea Odysseus traversed, so to find his home: Till at length his fortune bore him sleeping to his native earth, PAGE 104. SCHILLER. Rich in thy wealth, but poor thro' hate and sorrow, PAGE 116. Barbed is the shaft of Love, Strive not e'er that dart to move: Patient bear a little smart. He that laughs my words to scorn, Grievously hath rent his heart.-BURGER. Evil fares the ship that tosses on the raging storm-swept sea; PAGE 136. Knowledge to one is a high and a heavenly goddess; another Deems it a useful cow, yielding him butter and milk.-SCHILLER. PAGE 150. Virtues here are only two; Would they ne'er were separate! Would the great were ever good, And the good were ever great !-SCHILLER. (To be completed in our next.) L. THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN. PERHAPS at the present day there is no one, of those who are interested in education, who would question the good likely to proceed from an education, however advanced, among the middle classes, provided it be confined to the male sex. But it is but a small proportion of thoughtful men who would extend the same liberality to women of whatever class. The question has been much discussed, worn thread-bare some thoughtless people say, who do not consider that it ranks very highly among the most momentous subjects of our time. Yet it seems to be no nearer a decision than ever. The two sides obstinately stand aloof, and refuse to see anything but absolute variance and dissimilarity in their respective ideas. If this mischievous feeling continues, there seems to be but one inevitable consequence, however distant its accomplishment may be. The extreme progress party wish to gain an undisputed victory, and seeking to make woman man, will produce a monster. There can be no fusion, gradual or momentary, of the two natures. Those who endeavour to bring this about, will produce a confusion of metals battered, it may be, into an unfortunately inseparable mass; but the unsightly blotches of confusion, and such they must always be, are not the beautiful unity of perfect fusion. But let each side look more generously upon the opinions of the other, in which way only can we hope for a satisfactory settlement; for at present they will allow no common ground, and hence conviction cannot follow discussion. Let us try to discover the good which exists in each, and whether the two may not amalgamate by a little generous concession. And at the outset we suppose that each side has the happiness of woman at heart, for there is a certain class whose arguments against the education of women are dictated solely by selfishness. With these we may have something to say by-and-by. Now one side says, "Educate women as men, let them push, |