Friendship's Offering; And Winter's Wreath: A Christmas and New Year's Present - Taschenbuch

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: doing his work like a man and a soldier. The change did come over him, from that moment. He served many campaigns with honor, and returned to his family, holding some rank as an officer. For Hortense, we repeat, kind English reader, that she yet lives in the brave country in which we now write; and more, that she wears (whenever she likes) a military decoration, presented to her soon after the facts of her lofty and yet tender heroism had become known to her Imperial Sovereign. Boutogne-Sur-Jfer, July, 1831. FOR MUSIC. Come again! Come again ! Sunshine cometh after rain. As a lamp fed newly burneth, Pleasure who doth fly returneth, Scattering every cloud of pain; As, the year which dies in showers, Riseth in a world of flowers, Called by many a vernal strain; Come thou for whom tears were falling, And a thousand tongues are calling, ? Come again ! O, come again ! Like the sunshine after rain. Baury Cornwall. The Nevv'y 7 LENOX AND J FOUNDATIONS.,, i, i in to the piv ..--..! appeared worse than idu THE POET'S DREAM. Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Milton' It was the minstrel's merry month of June; Silent and sultry glowed the hreezeless noon; Along the flowers the bee went murmuring; Life in its myriad forms was on the wing, . Broke through the green leaves with the quivering beam, Sung from the grove, and sparkled on the stream: When?where yon beach-tree broke the summer ray?- Wrapt in rich dreams of light ? young Milton lay. For him the earth beneath, the heaven above, Teemed with the earliest spring of joyous youth; The verses here printed under the above title form the first part of Mr. Bulwer's poem of " Milton," published while the accompanying plate was in the hands of the en...