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PORTRAIT,

OH, COULD WE DO WITH THIS WORLD OF OURS.

Oh, could we do with this world of ours
As thou dost with thy garden bowers,
Reject the weeds and keep the flowers,

What a heaven on earth we'd make it!

SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND.

She is far from the land where her young hero slceps,

And lovers are round her, sighing:

But coldly she turns. from their gaze, and weeps,

For her heart in his grave is lying,

SHE SUNG OF LOVE.

She sung of Love, while o'er her lyre

The rosy rays of evening fell,

As if to feed, with their soft fire,

The soul within that trembling shell,

DRINK TO HER.

With golden key Wealth thought

To pass-but 'twould not do:

While Wit a diamond brought,

Which cut his bright way through,

THE MEETING OF THE WATERS.

Sweet Vale of Avoca, how calm could Í rest

In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,

Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should ccase,
And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace,

LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life

As Love's young dream,

O'DONOHUE'S MISTRESS.

For when the last April sun grows dim,
Thy Naïads prepare his steed for him
Who dwells, bright Lake, in thee,

LALLA ROOKH-Frontispiece,

LALLA ROOKH-Title,

THE VEILED PROPHET-ZELICA.

You saw her pale dismay,

Ye wond'ring sisterhood, and heard the burst
Of exclamation from her lips, when first
She saw that youth, too well, too dearly known,
Silently kneeling at the Prophet's throne.

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Scarce had she said

These breathless words, when a voice deep and dread
As that of MONKER, waking up the dead

From their first sleep-so startling 'twas to both

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Rung through the casement near, Thy oath, thy oath,"

But hark-she stops-she listens-dreadful tone,
'Tis her Tormentor's laugh-and now, a groan,

PARADISE AND THE PERI.

One morn a Peri at the gate

Of Eden stood, disconsolate,

Nay, turn not from me that dear face-
Am I not thine-thy own lov'd bride-
The one, the chosen one, whose place
In life or death is by thy side!

Then swift his haggard brow he turn'd
Totine fai: child, who fearless sat,

Though ever yet hath day beam burn'd
Upon abr, ow more fierce than that,

Myidrens have boded all too right-
Wepart for ever part-to-night,
I knew, I new it could not last-

'Twas lit, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past,

Fiercely he broke away, nor stopp'd,

Nor look'd-but from the lattice dropp'd
Down mid the pointed crags beneath,
As if he fled from love to death,

HINDA.

And watch, and look along the deep,

For him whose smiles first made her weep,

THE LIGHT OF THE HARAM-NAMOUNA.

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