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DAVID GRAY.

1838-1861.

[BORN Jan. 29, 1838, at Duntiblae, a small village on the banks of the Luggie, about eight miles from Glasgow. Son of a weaver. Educated in part at Glasgow University, for the Christian ministry, but abandoned it for literary pursuits, and betook himself at an early age to writing verses, many of which appeared from time to time in The Glasgow Citizen, under the nom de plume of "Will Gurney." In 1860 he determined to go to London, hoping to attain literary eminence in the great metropolis, where he arrived in the month of May, without friends or means of subsistence. He attracted the favorable notice of several men of letters, who gave him some literary employment and otherwise befriended him, but soon fell ill with pulmonary disease, and was sent back to Merkland, where his parents were then living. He struggled with the disease till the third of December, 1861, when he passed away. His poems, The Luggie, and Other Poems, were published shortly after his death by Macmillan & Co., with a Memoir by James Hedderwick, and a Prefatory Notice by R. M. Milnes, M.P.]

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HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON.

1840

[BORN at Plymouth, Jan 18, 1840. Educated in France, England, and Franco-Germany. Entered the Civil Service in 1856, appointed to a clerkship in the Board of Trade, where he still continues. Has contributed to most of the leading English periodicals, Cornhill, Blackwood, Good Words, etc. In 1873, collected his scattered Lyrics in a volume entitled Vignettes in Rhyme, and Vers de Société. It was followed by Proverbs in Porcelain, 1877; republished by Holt & Co. in this country in 1880. He was one of the contributors to Ward's English Poets, 1880, supplying the critical sketches of Prior, Praed, Gay, and Hood He is also the author of a life of Fielding in English Men of Letters, edited by John Morley, and has recently edited a selection from Cowper's letters for the Parchment Library.]

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[DAUGHTER of the late Admiral W. A. B. Hamilton, and Lady Harriet Hamilton, sister 13 the Duke of Abercorn. Born in 1840, and in 1863 married Mr. Henry S. King, the banker and publisher. Author of Aspromonte, 1869, The Disciples; Book of Dreams, 1883.]

A DREAM MAIDEN,

My baby is sleeping overhead,

My husband is in the town; In my large white bed uncurtained, All alone I lay me down.

And dreamily I have said my prayers, And dreamily closed my eyes,

And the youth in my blood moves sweetly

As my pulses fall and rise.

I lie so peaceful and lonely,
A maiden in spirit-land,

With the moonbeams in at the window,
And hand laid close to hand.

MRS. HARRIET E. HAMILTON KING.

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I wander forth in the moonbeams,

All free of heart alone,

Neither awake or dreaming, To-night it is all one.

Light of step across the carpet

Of the flower-entangled spring, Light of spirit through the haunted Wood pathways murmuring.

The earth is telling her secrets,
Never shy or strange to me;
My heart beating only silence,
One with her mystery.

All over the beautiful distance
The air is so fresh and pure,
The night is so cool and silvery,
The calm is so secure.

And afar, down into the sunrise,
The glittering dream-worlds shine;
And by this free heart triumphant
I pass on to make them mine.

O elfin maiden, turn homeward,

And dream not so cold and wild! Have I not turned a woman? Have I not husband and child?

A HAUNTED house.
THE lawns are bright, the paths are wide,
The roses are bursting on every side.

All around the bowers are green,
And the shining laurels a folding-

screen.

The large fruit ripens on many a tree,
Purple and gold drooping heavily.

Of health and wealth a hidden spell
Is scattered by hands invisible.

Young, and gladsome, and free they

meet

Voices of laughter and running feet.

Whether the seasons be dark or fair, It is always summer and sunshine there.

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[DAUGHTER of Vice-Admiral George Davies; born at Poole, Dorsetshire, in 1840, and was married in 1863 to Mr. Thomas Webster, Fellow and Law Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge. Among her works are Bianche Lisle, and Other Poems, 180; Lilian Gray, 180s: Prom theus Bound, Dramatic Studies, 1866; 4 Woman Sold and Other Poems, 1807: Medea, 1865 The Auspicious Day, 1872; Yu Pe Ya's Lute, 1874: Disguises, 1879; A Book of Rhymes. 1881; In a Day, 1882. Her earlier poems were produced under the nom de plume of "Cec Hume." She was a contributor for some years to the Examiner, from which many of her artcles and reviews have been collected in the volume A Housewife's Opinions, 1879.]

TO ONE OF MANY.

WHAT! wilt thou throw thy stone of That I should fail to know the wrong

malice now,

Thou dare to scoff at him with scorn or

blame?

He is a thousand times more great than thou:

Thou, with thy narrower mind and lower aim,

Wilt thou chide him and not be checked by shame?

He hath done evil - God forbid my sight

Should falter where I gaze with loving

eye,

from right.

He hath done evil -- let not any tie
Of birth or love draw moral sense

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