"LOOK UP, RISE UP; FOR FAR ABOVE OUR PALMS ARE GROWN, OUR PLACE IS SET;-(ROSSETTI) "WATCH WITH ME, BLESSED SPIRITS, WHO DELIGHT (ROSSETTI) SUMMER. And blue-black beetles transact business, And gnats fly in a host, And moths grow fat and thrive, 367 ""And ladybirds arrive."] Before green apples blush, Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion ALL THROUGH THE LONG NIGHT TO WALK IN WHITE."-ROSSETTI. THERE WE SHALL MEET, AS ONCE WE MET, AND LOVE WITH OLD FAMILIAR LOVE."-ROSSETTI. "THERE IS NO TIME LIKE SPRING, WHEN LIFE'S ALIVE IN EVERY THING,-(CHRISTINA ROSSETTI) 368 66 WATCH WITH ME, JESUS, IN MY LONELINESS:-(ROSSETTI) CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. GONE FOR EVER. HAPPY rosebud, blooming ["O happy skylark, springing up to the broad blue sky.") O happy skylark, springing Up to the broad blue sky, THOUGH OTHERS SAY ME NAY, YET SAY THOU YES."-ROSSETTI. BEFORE DEFT SWALLOWS SPEED THEIR JOURNEY BACK ALONG THE TRACKLESS TRACK."-ROSSETTI. ONE CRIED, HOW LONG? YET FOUNDED ON THE ROCK GONE FOR EVER. 369 Too gladsome in thy singing, Thou also soon shalt lie Where no sweet notes are ringing. And through life's shine and shower And at the morning hour, We still shall look in vain For the same bird and flower. [Our three extracts are taken from "The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems" edition 1866).] "I LOOKED FOR THAT WHICH IS NOT, NOR CAN BE, AND HOPE DEFERRED MADE MY HEART SICK IN TRUTH; BUT YEARS MUST PASS BEFORE A HOPE OF YOUTH IS RESIGNED UTTERLY."-CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Sir Walter Scott. [THE great Scotch poet and novelist, critic, essayist, and historian, was born in the city of Edinburgh on the 15th of August 1771. He was educated at the High School and University of Edinburgh, acquiring some knowledge of the ancient and modern languages, and a vast variety of miscellaneous information. Among his school-fellows he acquired great fame as a story-teller. Studying for the bar, he gained his advocate's gown in 1792; was married in 1797; and in 1799 obtained the appointment of Sheriff of Selkirkshire. Three years previously he had published translations of Pürger's "Lenore" and "The Wild Huntsman," which preserved all the fire of the original; in 1802 appeared his "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border;" and in 1805 his "Lay of the Last Minstrel," which inaugurated a career of romantic brilliancy. In 1806 he was appointed one of the principal Clerks of the Court of Session. His magnificent poetical romance of "Marmion" was issued in 1808; "The Lady of the Lake" in 1810; "The Vision of Don Roderick" in 1811; "Rokeby" in 1812. The old mine, says Lord Lytton, now gave symptoms of exhaustion, but a new mine, ten times more affluent, was discovered; and in the novel of "Waverley," published anonymously in 1814, Scott took the reading world by storm. A long succession of brilliant fictions followed, the poorest of which would have made the reputation of any other writer; and "The Antiquary," "Guy Mannering," Ivanhoe," Kenilworth," "Old Mortality," "The Bride of Lammermoor," enchanted and enthralled thousands of delighted readers. Their popularity has suffered no diminution, and they have been translated into the principal European languages. With the immense profits of these works Scott "created" the house and demesne of Abbotsford, on the banks of the Tweed, near Melrose, and SHE SHALL DO BATTLE, SUFFER, AND ATTAIN." -ROSSETTI. "CAN PIETY THE DISCORD HEAL, OR STAUNCH THE DEATH-FEUD'S ENMITY?-'SCOTT) 370 "ONE CROWDED HOUR OF GLORIOUS LIFE—(Scott) SIR WALTER SCOTT. assumed the state of a landed proprietor. In 1820 he received the honour THE BALLAD OF LOVELY ROSABELLE. LISTEN, listen, ladies gay! No haughty feats of arms I tell ; That mourns the lovely Rosabelle. — IS WORTH AN AGE WITHOUT A NAME."- -SCOTT. CAN CHRISTIAN LOVE, CAN PATRIOT ZEAL, CAN LOVE OF BLESSED CHARITY?"-SCOTT. IN HALLS, IN GAY ATTIRE IS SEEN; IN HAMLETS, DANCES ON THE GREEN;-(SIR WALTER SCOTT) 66 IN PEACE, LOVE TUNES THE SHEPHERD'S REED; THE BALLAD OF LOVELY ROSABELLE. "Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew! Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. "The blackening wave is edged with white; "Last night the gifted Seer did view "'Tis not because Lord Lindesay's heir "'Tis not because the ring they ride, O'er Roslin all that dreary night *Isle; as Inchkeith. 371 IN WAR, HE MOUNTS THE WARRIOR'S STEED; LOVE RULES THE COURT, THE CAMP, THE GROVE; AND MEN BELOW, AND SAINTS ABOVE."-SCOTT. |