A FIELD FLOWER. There is a flower, a little flower, The prouder beauties of the field But this small flower, to nature dear, While moons and stars their courses run, Wreathes the whole circle of the year, Companion of the sun. It smiles upon the lap of May, To sultry August spreads its charms, Lights pale October on his way, And twines December's arms. The purple heath, and golden broom, But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Within the garden's cultured round, It shares the sweet carnation's bed; And blooms on consecrated ground In honour of the dead. The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The wild bee murmurs on its breast, The blue fly bends its pensile stem, Light o'er the sky-lark's nest. 'Tis Flora's page :-In every place, On waste and woodland, rock and plain, The rose has but a summer reign, The daisy never dies. Montgomery. THE CAPTURE OF IPSARA. Ipsara! thy glory is gone from the sea; The dark clouds of ruin have settled on thee; And the wave rolls in blood round thy desolate shore ! Ipsara! the sons of the valiant were thine, And they raised o'er the waters proud liberty's sign; And the Moslem oft left on the billowy foam The wreck of his power near their beautiful home. And lovely thy daughters, and worthy to grace But the warrior-bands in their places are given, Or weep, in their shame, those who slumber in death! Oh! whence came the ruin that swept to the grave The graces of beauty and strength of the brave, And crushed in destruction's most merciless hour, The pride of the fortress and bloom of the bower. 'Twas not the fierce foe, in his valour that came And then did the dark hordes, who fled from the brave, But worthy their fathers, their cause and their name, Like martyrs of freedom they bled in their place, Still clasping their foes in a fatal embrace. Ipsara! thy glory is changed into gloom, And ocean's green Eden is now one wide tomb; DESPAIR. Farewell, my gentle harp, farewell! I shed no tears-light passes by The lip is hushed and calm the eye. And mine has come !-no more I weep No longer passion's slave; Anon. |