And the grey chieftain, slowly rising, said,- "Ask'st thou of Him, whose house is lone beneath? I was an eagle in my youthful pride, When o'er the seas he came, with summer's breath, To dwell amidst us, on the lake's green side. Many the times of flowers have been since then,— Many, but bringing nought like Him again! "Not with the hunter's bow and spear he came "Doth not yon cypress whisper how we met, I and my brethren that from earth are gone, Under its boughs to hear his voice, which yet Seems through their gloom to send a silvery tone! He told of One, the grave's dark bands who broke, And our hearts burned within us as he spoke! "He told of far and sunny lands which lie Beyond the dust wherein our fathers dwell. Bright must they be ! for there are none that die, The happy called him, and he might not stay. "We saw him slowly fade-athirst, perchance, And on his gleaming hair no touch of time: "We gather'd round him in the dewy hour Of one still morn, beneath his chosen tree; From his clear voice at first the words of power Came low, like moanings of a distant sea; But swelled, and shook the wilderness ere long, As if the spirit of the breeze grew strong. "And then once more they trembled on his tongue, It is enough!-he sank upon my breast,— "We buried him where he was wont to pray, By the calm lake, e'en here, at eventide; We reared this Cross in token where he lay, For on the Cross, he said, his Lord had died! Now hath he surely reached, o'er mount and wave, That flowery land whose green turf hides no grave! "But I am sad-I mourn the clear light taken Back from my people, o'er whose place it shone, The pathway to the better shore forsaken, And the true words forgotten, save by one, Who hears them faintly sounding from the past, Mingled with death-songs in each fitful blast." Then spoke the wanderer forth with kindling eye: Heaven darkly works,-yet where the seed hath been, ་་ 'Hope on, hope ever!-by the sudden springing Of green leaves which the winter hid so long; And by the bursts of free, triumphant singing, After cold, silent months, the woods among; "Deem not the words of light that here were spoken, But as a lovely song, to leave no trace! Yet shall the gloom which wraps thy hills be broken, And fading mists the better paths disclose, So by the Cross they parted, in the wild, By many a blue stream on its lonely way; TEARS AND SIGHS. BY RICHARD RYAN. My tears have been my meat day and night." 'MID tears I hail the golden sun, PSALM xlii. 3. And wish his fated course was run, Ask ye how many tears I've shed? Since hours, and days, and months, and years, When shall I quit this world of gloom, Then mournful let me pass my years, |