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Bjorn And Bera.*
Smiled upwards to the lady-smocks , And in the boughs the throstle-cocks Were singing as 'twere morn of May ; And ever and anon the lay Of the night-singing bird would rise , And higher , near the magic skies The noise of some new risen lark , "
Had this been ascribed to Byron , he would not have blushed . On human nature we extract the following , observing meanwhile that it is a pity Mr . Ranking did not enlarge more upon this ancl kindred subjects : — " The strongest love may fall on sleep , But hate will waken ever , . Strong love its full content keep
may Within the soul so warm and deep , Close-wrapped and doubting never , — That lost in the strength of sure delight , It hardly shall know of its own true being , As children ' s eyes shut fast at night , AYeary with wonder and dazed with seeing , — So love may cease to toy and Hss , siof its certain bliss
Seeking no gn , Sleeping in safety , nor fearing harm , But living to waken alive and warm At kiss of the sun or clang of the storm .
But hate , like a miser worn and old , AVho muses of traitors manifold That seek to pilfer his darling gold , Still wakes and watches warily . The beads of evil are daily told , And it treasures its memories charily , Until the wished-for day may come When wrath shall clamour and pity be dumb , And the tiger may cease to hide and creep , And crouch himself for the long-stayed leap . "
Nor Swinburne , nor Tennyson , nor Browning , nor Austen , have done better than this ; ancl we boldly assert that if Mr . Ranking can follow in the path he has chosen in Bjorn and Bera , not one of the names of the poets mentioned will , in time to come , be greater than his .
The Peasant Countess.
THE PEASANT COUNTESS .
BY WILLIAM ANDKEWS , F . E . H . S , JN the pages of the Masonic Magazine frequent attention has been directed to the literary and arelneological labours of Mr . William . Andrews , Fellow of the Royal Historical Society , of Hull , author of the "History of the Dunmow Flitch , " and other
Popular works . In the well conducted Hull Neivs we find he has commenced a series of articles under the title of " Old Stories Retold , " relating to the tales , traditions , etc ., ° f Yorkshire and Lincolnshire . We feel certain that readers of the Mil News will wel-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Bjorn And Bera.*
Smiled upwards to the lady-smocks , And in the boughs the throstle-cocks Were singing as 'twere morn of May ; And ever and anon the lay Of the night-singing bird would rise , And higher , near the magic skies The noise of some new risen lark , "
Had this been ascribed to Byron , he would not have blushed . On human nature we extract the following , observing meanwhile that it is a pity Mr . Ranking did not enlarge more upon this ancl kindred subjects : — " The strongest love may fall on sleep , But hate will waken ever , . Strong love its full content keep
may Within the soul so warm and deep , Close-wrapped and doubting never , — That lost in the strength of sure delight , It hardly shall know of its own true being , As children ' s eyes shut fast at night , AYeary with wonder and dazed with seeing , — So love may cease to toy and Hss , siof its certain bliss
Seeking no gn , Sleeping in safety , nor fearing harm , But living to waken alive and warm At kiss of the sun or clang of the storm .
But hate , like a miser worn and old , AVho muses of traitors manifold That seek to pilfer his darling gold , Still wakes and watches warily . The beads of evil are daily told , And it treasures its memories charily , Until the wished-for day may come When wrath shall clamour and pity be dumb , And the tiger may cease to hide and creep , And crouch himself for the long-stayed leap . "
Nor Swinburne , nor Tennyson , nor Browning , nor Austen , have done better than this ; ancl we boldly assert that if Mr . Ranking can follow in the path he has chosen in Bjorn and Bera , not one of the names of the poets mentioned will , in time to come , be greater than his .
The Peasant Countess.
THE PEASANT COUNTESS .
BY WILLIAM ANDKEWS , F . E . H . S , JN the pages of the Masonic Magazine frequent attention has been directed to the literary and arelneological labours of Mr . William . Andrews , Fellow of the Royal Historical Society , of Hull , author of the "History of the Dunmow Flitch , " and other
Popular works . In the well conducted Hull Neivs we find he has commenced a series of articles under the title of " Old Stories Retold , " relating to the tales , traditions , etc ., ° f Yorkshire and Lincolnshire . We feel certain that readers of the Mil News will wel-