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Till the tide block'd up and the swift stream brimm'd
In eddies, we struck on the opposite side.

“Sell Paché—blind Paché? Now, mister! look here! You have slept in my tent and partook of my cheer Many days, many days, on this rugged frontier, For the ways they were rough and Camanches were near; But you'd better pack up, sir! That tent is too small For us two after this! Has an old mountaineer, Do you book-men believe, got no tum-tum at all? Sell Paché! You buy him! A bag full of gold! You show him! Tell of him the tale I have told! Why, he bore me through fire, and is blind, and is old! Now pack up your papers, and get up and spin

To them cities you tell of .

Blast you and your tin!”

JAMES R. RANDALL.

MARYLAND.*

THE despot's heel is on thy shore,

Maryland!

His torch is at thy temple door,
Maryland!

Avenge the patriotic gore

That fleck'd the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle-queen of yore,

Maryland! My Maryland!

Hark to thy wandering son's appeal,
Maryland!

My mother State! to thee I kneel,

Maryland!

For life and death, for woe and weal,

Thy peerless chivalry reveal,

And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel,
Maryland! My Maryland!

Thou wilt not cower in the dust,

Maryland!

*See Note 27.

Thy beaming sword shall never rust,
Maryland!

Remember Carroll's sacred trust;
Remember Howard's warlike thrust ;
And all thy slumberers with the just,
Maryland! My Maryland!

Come! 'tis the red dawn of the day,
Maryland!

Come! with thy panoplied array,
Maryland!

With Ringgold's spirit for the fray,
With Watson's blood, at Monterey,
With fearless Lowe, and dashing May,
Maryland! My Maryland!

Come for thy shield is bright and strong,
Maryland!

Come! for thy dalliance does thee wrong,

Maryland!

Come! to thine own heroic throng,

That stalks with Liberty along,

And give a new key to thy song,
Maryland! My Maryland!

Dear Mother! burst the tyrant's chain,
Maryland!

Virginia should not call in vain,
Maryland!

She meets her sisters on the plain :
"Sic semper" is the proud refrain,
That baffles minions back amain,
Maryland!

Arise in majesty again,

Maryland! My Maryland!

I see the blush upon thy cheek,

Maryland!

But thou wast ever bravely meek,

Maryland!

But lo! there surges forth a shriek
From hill to hill, from creek to creek:
Potomac calls to Chesapeake,

Maryland! My Maryland!

Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll,
Maryland!

Thou wilt not crook to his control,
Maryland !

Better the fire upon thee roll,
Better the blade, the shot, the bowl,
Than crucifixion of the soul,
Maryland! My Maryland!

I hear the distant thunder hum,
Maryland!

The old Line's bugle, fife and drum,

Maryland!

She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb:

Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!

She breathes-she burns! she'll come! she'll come! Maryland! My Maryland!

KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD.

Born at Fryeburg, Maine, 1840—

DRIVING HOME THE COWS.

Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass
He turn'd them into the river lane;
One after another he let them pass,
Then fasten'd the meadow bars again.

Under the willows, and over the hill,
He patiently follow'd their sober pace,
The merry whistle for once was still,

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And something shadow'd the sunny face.

Only a boy! and his father had said

He never could let his youngest go:

Two already were lying dead

Under the feet of the trampling foe.

But after the evening work was done,

And the frogs were loud in the meadow-swamp, Over his shoulder he slung his gun,

And stealthily follow'd the foot-path damp,

Across the clover and through the wheat,
With resolute heart and purpose grim,
Though cold was the dew on his hurrying feet,
And the blind bat's flitting startled him.

Thrice since then had the lanes been white,
And the orchards sweet with apple-bloom,
And now, when the cows came back at night,
The feeble father drove them home.

For news had come to the lonely farm

That three were lying where two had lain, And the old man's tremulous, palsied arm Could never lean on a son's again.

The summer day grew cool and late:

He went for the cows when the work was done; But down the lane, as he open'd the gate, He saw them coming, one by one.

Brindle, Ebony, Speckle, and Bess,

Shaking their horns in the evening wind;
Cropping the butter-cups out of the grass ;-
But who was it following close behind?
Loosely swung in the idle air

The empty sleeve of army blue;
And worn and pale, from the crisping hair,
Look'd out a face that the father knew.

For Southern prisons will sometimes yawn,
And yield their dead unto life again;
And the day that comes with a cloudy dawn
In golden glory at last may wane.

The great tears sprung to their meeting eyes,-
For the heart must speak when the lips are dumb;
And under the silent evening skies
Together they follow'd the cattle home.

BY THE APPLE-TREE.

Ir was not anger that changed him of late
It was not diffidence made him shy;
Yon branch that has blossom'd above the gate
Could guess the riddle-and so can I.

What does it mean when the bold eyes fall,
And the ready tongue at its merriest trips?

What potent influence holds in thrall

The eager heart and the burning lips?

Ah me! to falter before a girl

Whose shy lids never would let (Save for the lashes' wilful curl) The pansy-purple asleep below.

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Nothing to frighten a man away—
Only a cheek like a strawberry-bed;

Only a ringlet's gold astray,

And a mouth like a baby's, dewy red.

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Ah, baby mouth! with your dimpled bloom,
If but yon blossomy apple-bough

Could whisper a secret learn'd in the gloom,
That deepens its blushes even now!

No need, for the secret at last is known
Yet so, I fancy, it might not be
Had he not met her, by chance, alone,
There in the lane, by the apple-tree.

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