The Future Prospects of the World, (from an unpub-

lished Poem,)

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS,

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697.

A very considerable number of the pieces in this volume are

republished from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

LEGEND OF GENEVIEVE.

A wild delirious thrill of joy
Was in that hour of agony,
As up the steepy pass he strove,
Fear, toil, and sorrow lost in love!

A

SCOTT.

LEGEND OF GENEVIEVE.

HERE clustering thick, the boughs have made,
With foliage dark, a pleasant shade e;
We from our walk will rest a while,

The noon-day scorching to beguile

Upon this verdant slope :

Lo! what a beauteous scene around

Green fields, brown woods, black steeps abound,

And hills the clouds that prop.

On every bank, in every dell,

The wild shrub charms both sight and smell;

The housing bee, on restless wing,

Hums on its flower-besprinkled way;

While Nature's untaught warblers sing,

Elate of heart, on every spray.

It seems as if a holiday