MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. FROM "THE COLLEGIAN," 1830, ILLUSTRATED ANNUALS, ETC. Nescit vox missa reverti. -HORAT. Ars Poetica. Ab iis quæ non adjuvant quam mollissime oportet pedem referre.QUINTILIAN, L. VI. C. 4. "Go, paint the birch's silver rind, And quilt the peach with softer down; Who oft had cheered them with her Up with the willow's trailing threads, song; She waved a mutilated arm, Off with the sunflower's radiant crown! And silence held the listening throng. "Go, plant the lily on the shore, And set the rose among the waves, "Sweet friends," the gentle nymph be- And bid the tropic bud unbind gan, "From opening bud to withering leaf, One common lot has bound us all, In every change of joy and grief. 1 Written after a general pruning of the trees around Harvard College. Its silken zone in arctic caves; "Bring bellows for the panting winds, THE MYSTERIOUS VISITOR. There was not one among them all All silent as the sheeted dead, In spite of sneer and frown, There was a look of horror flashed A murmur broke along the crowd, Through sounding aisle, o'er grating stair, The long procession poured, That fearful stranger! down he sat, THERE was a sound of hurrying feet, And on his lip a rising smile A tramp on echoing stairs, 1 A little poem, on a similar occasion, may be found in the works of Swift, from which, perhaps, the idea was borrowed; although I was as much surprised as amused to meet with it some time after writing the preceding lines. Of scorn or pleasure played. He took his hat and hung it up, With slow but earnest air; He stripped his coat from off his back, And placed it on a chair. |