RHYMES.

If perhaps these rhymes of mine should sound not well in strangers' ears,

They have only to bethink them that it happens so with theirs ;

For so long as words, like mortals, call a fatherland their own,

They will be most highly valued where they are best and longest known

CURFEW

1.

SOLEMNLY, mournfully,
Dealing its dole,
The Curfew Bell

Is beginning to toll.

Cover the embers,

And put out the light;

Toil comes with the morning,

And rest with the night.