SCRAPS.

SCRAPS

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

Inest sua gratia parvis."

THE following song is the composition of a gentleman of note in the literary world. It was written on the occasion of an annual revel held in a forest in Essex; and possesses, we think, much of that fanciful spirit which abounds in the poetry of our old masters which relates to the sports of the greenwood-tree :

1.

Gallant lads, and gentle maids,

Welcome to our revelry,—

Come, beneath these greenwood shades,
Dance and sing your songs of glee.—,
And, as the cadence of the song

Gives measure to your light footfall,
A viewless guest, these woods among,
Shall sing the sweetest song of all.

CHORUS.

Echo! Echo.!
Say not, No-

Answer to our choral call

Once and again-tho' far thou be

Swell the forest revelry

Singing the sweetest song of all,

Merrily, all merrily!

2.

Foot it, till the wearied sun

Slumbers in a sea of gold;

And fairies, who the day-light shun,
Like gay mortals, revels hold.

Then, as they trim the glow-worm light,
And on the moon, their mistress, call,
Echo shall come, a viewless sprite,

And sing the sweetest song of all.

3.

Sport and dance the hours away,

Echo! Echo! &c.

Till the coy fays, who watch the morrow,
At peeping of the envious day,

Bid you" good bye" with looks of sorrow.
Then homeward to your couch at last,
And in gay dreams our sports recall,
While Echo, bringing back the past,
Shall sing the sweetest song of all!

Echo! Echo! &c.

At the celebrated institution for the Deaf and Dumb, at Paris, one of the élèves was asked the meaning of the word "gratitude:" he immediately took his pen and wrote "The memory of the heart."

It is curious to observe the literal meaning of the first names which were bestowed upon mankind-omitting Cain and his wicked posterity:

Adam, man-Seth, placed-Enosh, miserable-Kenan, possession-Mahalaleel, the praised God-Jared, descending-Enoch, teaching-Methuselah, his death produces-Noah, rest. On connecting the words, they teach this great truth:-Man being placed in a mise

rable condition, the blessed God descending shall teach that his death produces to debased man rest.

Bon homme et grand homme tout à la fois; réunion sans laquelle on n'est jamais complètement ni l'un ni l'autre; car le génie donne plus d'étendue à la bonté, et la bonté, plus de naturel au génie.-Mémoires de R. de St. J. d'Angely.

Cet amour moral, qui enchaine ou domine l'amour physique; ou, du moins, le voile et le pare.-Ib.

Mors mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset,
Eternæ vitæ janua clausa foret.-Porson.

The heart of man is like the creeping plant, which sickens and withers unless it has something round which it can entwine.

HORACE, ODE 22, LIB. I.

The man who leads a sober life ('),
Who covets not his neighbour's wife-

Who neither drinks, nor games, nor swears—

But his debts, and
pays

says his prayers

Through all the throng unhurt may go,

From Temple-bar to Rotten-row ('),
Nor fear to cross the crowded street,
Where tilburies and coaches meet,
Hurrying, like engines, o'er the stones,
Regardless of pedestrian bones.

For 'tother day, as deep in thought on
My pretty friend, Miss Polly Horton (3),

(') Integer vitæ, &c.

(2) Sive per Syrtæis, &c,
(3) Namque me silvâ, &c.