"Alone am I, O Shilric;

Alone and low in the house of winter.
With grief for my love, I fell,

Pale into the grave, O Shilric."

She fled like a shadow before the wind,

Like a mist on the mountain in sadness,
"Wilt thou not stay empty form of Ninvela?
Stay and behold the tears of my sorrow.
Lovely is thy form in mist;

Lovely thou wast when alive, Ninvela.
I will mourn by a fountain cool,
On the top of the hill, in the wind
At mid-day, when there is no sound
Speak thou, my love, among the heath;
Come thou, Ninvela, on the breeze,

On the light breeze from the woody rock;
Let me hear thy voice by my side,
At mid-day, in surrounding silence."
Thus did Cronan raise the song,

Midst joy, in the hall of the brave.

A GHUTHA Chòna, 's àirde fuaim,
A bhàrda, tha luaidh mu h-aois,
Dha 'n éirich, air ar n-anam suas,
Feachda mòr nan gorm-chruaidh laoch.
A Chronain, a mhic nan caoin fhonn,
A Mhìnfhonn nach trom air clàrsaich,
Togaibh sgeul air Silric donn,

Do righ nam mòr-thom 's nam fàsach.
Thigeadh a Bhinnbheul, a's àillidh,
Mar bhogha braoin, anall sa' ghleann,
Nuair dh'fheuchas e cheann san àirde,
'S a ghrian a' dol air chùl nam beann.
Sud an òigh, a righ nan lann,
Le guth fann, is i fo bhròn.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

JAMES MONTGOMERY was born at Irvine, in Ayrshire, in 1771. His father was a Moravian missionary, who died whilst laboring for the propagation Christianity in the island of Tobago. In 1792 he established himself in Sheffield (where he still resides) as an assistant in a newspaper office. In a few years the paper became his own property, and he continued to conduct it up to 1825.

Mr. Montgomery's first volume of poetry appeared in 1806, and was entitled the Wanderer of Switzerland, and other poems. The Edinburgh Review of January, 1807, denounced the unfortunate volume in a style of such authoritative reprobation as no mortal verse could be expected to survive. Notwithstanding this, within eighteen months of its first issue, the fourth edition (1500 copies each) was printed. The next work of the poet was The West Indies, a poem in four parts, written in honor of the abolition of the African slave trade by the British legislature, in 1807. Shortly after this Mr. Montgomery published a volume entitled Prison Amusements. In 1813 he came forward with a more elaborate performance, The World before the Flood, a poem in the heroic couplet, and extending to ten short cantos. Thoughts on Wheels, The Climbing Boy's Soliloquy, The Pelican Island, Greenland, and his Songs of Zion, which have cheered many a Christian heart, constitute his remaining works.

From his long residence in England, he has generally been viewed as an Englishman, but there can be no doubt that much of his inspiration has been drawn from the romantic scenery and poetical associations of his boyhood, spent as it was amid Scotia's rugged hills.

THE COMMON LOI.

ONCE in the flight of ages past,

There lived a man! and who was he?

Mortal! howe'er thy lot be cast,
That man resembled thee.

Unknown the region of his birth,

The land in which he died unknown: His name has perished from the earth, This truth survives alone!

That joy, and grief, and hope, and fear,
Alternate triumphed in his breast;
His bless and woe-a smile, a tear!
Oblivion hides the rest.

The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirits' rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all.