THE DEPARTED. 195 The departed!--the departed! They visit us in dreams, And they glide above our memories, THE CHIMES OF ENGLAND. BY ARTHUR CLEAVELAND COX. Upon the bells. Zechariah, 14: 20. THE chimes, the chimes of Motherland, That out from fane and ivied tower A thousand years have toll'd; How glorious must their music be As breaks the hallowed day, And calleth with a seraph's voice A nation up to pray! Those chimes that tell a thousand tales, Sweet tales of olden time! And ring a thousand memories At vesper, and at prime; At bridal and at burial, For cottager and king Those chimes-those glorious Christian chimes, How blessedly they ring! THE CHIMES OF ENGLAND. Those chimes, those chimes of Motherland, Upon a Christmas morn, Outbreaking, as the angels did, For a Redeemer born; How merrily they call afar, To cot and baron's hall, With holly deck'd and mistletoe, The chimes of England, how they peal The dim cathedral aisle ; Where windows bathe the holy light On priestly heads that falls, And stain the florid tracery And banner-dighted walls! And then, those Easter bells, in Spring! How loyally they hail thee round, Old Queen of holy times! From hill to hill, like sentinels, Responsively they cry, And sing the rising of the LORD, From vale to mountain high. U 197 198 THE CHIMES OF ENGLAND. I love ye-chimes of Motherland, With all this soul of mine, And bless the LORD that I am sprung And heir of her ancestral fame, Thee too I love, my Forest-land, The joy of all the earth; For thine thy mother's voice shall be, With English chimes, from Christian spires, LINES Suggested by a picture of Washington Allston. BY ISAAC MCLELLAN. THE tender Twilight with a crimson cheek Leans on the breast of Eve. The wayward Wind Hath folded her fleet pinions, and gone down To slumber by the darkened woods-the herds Have left their pastures, where the sward grows green And lofty by the river's sedgy brink, And slow are winding home. Hark, from afar Their tinkling bells sound through the dusky glade And forest-openings, with a pleasant sound; Sends back the music of the herdsman's horn. |