"Friends must be torn asunder, and swept along in the current of events, to see each other seldom, and perchance no more. For ever and ever in the eddies of time and accident, we whirl away."

HYPERION.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other

in passing,

Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;

So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one an

other,

Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and ELIZABETH.

a silence.

APRIL 30.

Dignified, affable, somewhat bent by his legal. erudition, as a shelf is by the weight of the books upon it.

KAVANAGH.

With him dwelt his dark-eyed daughter,

Wayward as the Minnehaha,

With her moods of shade and sunshine,
Eyes that smiled and frowned alternate,
Feet as rapid as the river,

Tresses flowing like the water,

And as musical a laughter;

And he named her from the river,

From the waterfall he named her,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water.

HIAWATHA.

APRIL 30.

MOODS.

O THAT a song would sing itself to me
Out of the heart of Nature, or the heart
Of man, the child of Nature, not of Art,
Fresh as the morning, salt as the salt sea,
With just enough of bitterness to be

A medicine to this sluggish mood, and start
The life-blood in my veins, and so impart
Healing and help in this dull lethargy!
Alas! not always doth the breath of song
Breathe on us. It is like the wind that bloweth
At its own will, not ours, nor tarrieth long;
We hear the sound thereof, but no man knoweth
From whence it comes, so sudden and swift and
strong,

Nor whither in its wayward course it goeth.