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BEFORE SLEEPING.

Now is the dead of night, and I must sleep;

But first, my-soul, if thou dost aught recall

Wherein thou hast done ill, I bid thee weep,

And pray God's tender mercy on thee fall;

Purge thyself clean of whatso bitter hate Thou hast for them that wrong thee; sink thy pride,

Nor deem thou standest in a higher state Than those whom God thy happier chance denied.

Be all for heaven; think life draws near the close;

Give to repentance thy last conscious breath;

For more and more this mortal weakness

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Of life should shut, and thou return no The breast-knots were broken; the roses

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Good Words.

CARYL BATTERSBY.

IRISH SONG.

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That controwled just a hundred good acres of land,

Her lovely brown eyes

Went wide wid surprise,

And her lips they shot scorn at his saucy demand:

"Young Carroll Maginn,

Put the beard to your chin

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DEAR child, thou knowest, I blame not thee;

Thou too, I know, hast shared my smart.

And the change in your purse, if a wife Neither did wrong; 'twas only she,

you would win."

Nature, that moulded us apart.

Then Carroll made Kate his most illigant But not to have sinned, in Nature's eyes, bow, I find a brittle plea to trust;

And off to the Diggins lampooned from the She punishes the just unwise

plough;

Till, the beard finely grown,

And the pockets full-blown,

Says he, "Maybe Kate might be kind to me now!"

So home my lad came,
Colonel Carty by name,

To try a fresh fling at his cruel ould flame.

More hardly than the wise unjust.

She placed our souls, like Heaven's lone spheres,

In separate paths, no power can move;
O truth too heart-breaking for tears!
Not even Love, not even Love!

LAURENCE BINYON.

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From Blackwood's Magazine.

LORD WOLSELEY'S MARLBOROUGH.1 BY GEN. SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, G.C.B.

IT has for long been known that Lord Wolseley has been engaged upon a life of Marlborough, and that he has had access to all papers and private documents connected with the career of

that great man. The appearance of the work has, therefore, been looked for with much interest; and the two first volumes of it which are now before the public - although they relate to the first half only, and that the darkest one, of that varied story, will fully bear out the high expectations formed in regard to it.

There is no life of Marlborough approaching it in dramatic interest, minuteness of detail, and excellence of literary execution. Much as we had always admired Lord Wolseley's great talents, we had no conception before of his power as a writer.

There is so much of novelty, so much of interest, in the work, that it is a very difficult one to review; and we can only pretend, by a few extracts, to give a general idea of the great value

of its contents.

In the early part of the first volume there are many interesting anecdotes illustrative of the state of society, and especially of female society, in the middle of the seventeenth century. To these we will presently allude.

Speaking of the old home of Ash, Lord Wolseley says:

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There is a wide gulf between our standard of female virtue and that of the Restoration epoch. This is brought home to us by the fact that an upright, God-fearing gentleman like Sir Winston Churchill should have wished to see his only daughter established as a maid of honor at a court where

Charles II. was king. But in those days it was no slur upon a lady to become the mistress of a prince; nor did her family suffer in reputation. Lord Arlington, in a letter of advice to the beautiful Miss Stewart, refers to the position, which he thought she had accepted, of mistress to Charles II., as one to which "it had pleased God and her virtue to raise her." It is said that the parents of Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, sent her originally to Versailles, in the hope that Louis XIV. would Sir E. Warcup records thus favor her. with pride, in one of his letters, that his daughter, a maid of honor to Queen Katherine, was one night and t'other with the The mistress to a royal prince was courted king, and very graciously received by him. by all who had access to her. Other women envied her good fortune, and her family looked upon her as a medium through which court favors, power, and lucrative employment were to be obtained. In allusion to the statement that Marl

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Standing on these garden steps, the borough owed much of his success in early threshold of Marlborough's forgotten birth- life to his sister Arabella, Hamilton, who place, what heart-stirring memories of En- knew thoroughly the French and English glish glory crowd upon the brain! Surely courts, writes, "Cela était dans l'ordre." the imagination is more fired and national In common with others of his time, he sentiment more roused by a visit to the assumed that the favorite of the king's spot where one of our greatest countrymen mistress, and brother of the duke's miswas born and passed his childhood, than tress, was in a fair way to preferment, and by any written record of his deeds. This could not fail to make his fortune (i. 35, untidy farmhouse, with its neglected gardens and weed-choked fish-ponds, round which the poor, badly clothed boy sported during his early years, seems to recall his

36).

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No one will understand this period who does not realize this remarkable, but true, picture of female virtue in the borough, to the Accession of Queen Anne. By upper classes then. As Lord Wolseley General Viscount Wolseley, K.P. 2 vols. Lon- says further on: "Modesty, the old don: Bentley & Son. outward sign of feminine virtue, was

1 The Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marl

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