LINES FOR MUSIC. BY T. S. FAY. OVER forest and meadow the night breeze is stealing, I have watched from the beach which your presence en chanted, In the star-lighted heaven each beautiful gem, And I sighed as I thought, ere the break of the morning, In the ripples of silver which roll to the shore. But when summer has fled, and yon flowers have faded, And the fields and the forests are withered and sere LINES FOR MUSIC. 121 When the friends now together, by distance are parted, When I paused by the stream, with the stars so delighted, Oh, forget not the time when that night-breeze was stealing, Though desolate oceans between us may roar, The beach-and the stars-and the waters revealing Thoughts bright as the ripples which break on the shore. LOOK ALOFT. BY J. LAWRENCE, JUN. [The following lines were suggested by an anecdote, said to have been related by the late Dr. Godman, of the ship-boy who was about to fall from the rigging, and was only saved by the mate's characteristic exclamation, "Look aloft, you lubber."] In the tempest of life, when the wave and the gale If the friend, who embraced in prosperity's glow Should the visions which hope spreads in light to thine eye, Like the tints of the rainbow, but brighten to fly, Then turn, and through tears of repentant regret, "Look aloft" to the sun that is never to set. |