Unchanged in soul I wandered back— I thought upon its cheerful hearth, INGRATITUDE. BLOW, blow, thou winter wind! As man's ingratitude : Thy tooth is not so keen, Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky! Though thou the waters warp, As friends remembered not. ANON. * Talitha, in the dialect of the people, a term of endearment used towards a young maiden."-Dean Alford on St. Mark's Gospel." Silence those death-wails "Not dead, but sleeping!" The Life is there! Gentle His accents, Kingly, He chaseth The clay-cold hand. "Talitha Cumi! Damsel, arise!" And slowly open Those death-sealed eyes! With a name of endearment, Tender and soft, (Her mother had waked her From sleep with it oft), HE calls her spirit, Beyond the tombs, "Talitha Cumi !" She hears and comes. And the gates of Hades, Before those accents Quake as with thunder, Open like flowers Touched by the sun : MISERIES OF ROYALTY. › HARD condition, twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath of every fool, Vhose sense no more can feel but his own wringing! Vhat infinite heart's-ease must kings neglect, That private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, And what art thou, thou idol ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suff'rest more What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Wherein thou art less happy being feared Than they in fearing. What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? Oh, be sick, great greatness, And bid thy ceremony give thee cure! Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation? Will it give place to flexure and low bending? Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee, I am a king that find thee; and I know |