Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

" 0 , Swallow ; Summer reigns Avithin thy heart , As sunshine sleeps upon thy purple Aving ; For , lo I thou comest with the brightening Spring , And yellowing Autumn warns thee to depart . To wait on thy king ' s march is all thine art , And to his floivery train , rejoicing , cling ; While tidings of his glory thou dost bring Where ' er thine arroAvy form is seen to dart . Oh , that Heaven's Summer in my heart might rest , And cheering rays about me I might fling , Blessing all others Avhile myself am blest ; Then I must foIIoAv too my viewless King ,

And catch from him the sunshine of the breast , And round me floAvers Avill smile and birds will sing . " The following sonnet , on the Plain of York from the Yorkshire Wolds , is a Ct companion to that of Wordsworth , composed after a journey across the Hamilton Hills : ^ " We gazed upon a mighty sunlit plain ,

Which s * A * ept , to right and left , the horizon's bound : In its wide arms was many a battle ground , But at its heart a glorious Minster fane . The sky was bright , and a melodious rain Fell from the soaring larks , Avith silvery sound : No note of discord in the air Avas found , Nor on the landscape ' s face one marring stain . ThusAvhile Ave sojourn in this Avorld of strife

, , May love to God be still the central thought Which sweetly rules and permeates our life : Thus may our soul Avith light and peace be fraught , And all our days with grateful music rife ;—An echo from angelic voices caught 1 "

Here are two good sonnets , highly honourable to our ancient operative brethren and to the poet who has sung them ; the first being on the words " Now or When " carved on a sundial at Beverley Minster : — " On the tall buttress of a Minster grey , The glorious Avork of long-forgotten men , I read this Dial Legend , — 'Mow or When . ' Well had these builders used their little day

Of service—witness this sublime display Of blossom'd stone , dazzling the gazer ' s ken . These towers attest they knew 'twas there and then , Not some vague morrow , they must work and pray . Oh , let us seize this transitory now From Avhich to build a life-work that Avill last : In humble prayer and worship let us bow Ere fleeting opportunity is past . When once Life ' s sun forsakes the Dial-plate , For Avork and for repentance 'tis too late I "

The other is on Patrington Church , eighteen miles from Hull , a spacious and elegant cruciform edifice , termed " the Queen of Holderness , " in \ A * hose nave and chancel , transepts and aisles , and central tower surmounted by its lofty spire , the Decorated and Later English styles of Architecture may be advantageously studied by such of the East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire brethren as care to know how Tracing Boards first came into use in our Lodges : —

" They toil'd the God of Heaven to glorify With lavish ornament of naA * e and choir , And lofty toAver that shoots into a spire Of queenly grace , conspicuous far and nigh . But lo I that slender shaft against the sky , Eosed by the dawn , or tipp'd Avith sunset fire , Of home-bound sailors is the dear desire , And through the shoals of Humbor guides their eye Those patient builders rear'd a stately shrine