The Siesta. (From the Spanish) Mary Magdalen. (From the Spanish of Bartolomé Leonardo de Argen- The Life of the Blessed. (From the Spanish of Luis Ponce de Leon) The Love of God. (From the Provençal of Bernard Rascas) From the Spanish of Pedro de Castro y Añaya POEMS. THE AGES. I. WHEN to the common rest that crowns our days, Or full of years, and ripe in wisdom, lays His silver temples in their last repose; When, o'er the buds of youth, the death-wind blows And blights the fairest; when our bitter tears Stream, as the eyes of those that love us close, We think on what they were, with many fears Lest goodness die with them, and leave the coming years. II. And therefore, to our hearts, the days gone by, Of times when worth was crowned, and faith was kept, Ere friendship grew a snare, or love waxed coldThose pure and happy times-the golden days of old. |