...is perhaps just, but it is re-admitted here, notwithstanding, for the reason given in Note 1, p. 62. The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground."] THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair...

...scatter'd oft, the carliest of the ycar, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbrcast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the greund. GRAY. Elegy, 1. edil. Now Cawdor's corse he view'd, With hoary muss and faded lcaves bestrew'd...

...130 YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND. here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...And little footsteps lightly print the ground."^. THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair...

...them, sing his lullaby. " There gather'd oft the earliest of the year. By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The red,breast loves to build and...there. And little footsteps lightly print the ground." THE END. C. WHITISO, BEAUFOBT UOUSE, STBAXD. ...

...well worthy of insertion. There scatter' d oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground. This mention of the early violets, reminds me of those beautiful lines, by one of our old poets, Phineas...

...long a parenthesis: " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, " By hands unseen are showers of violets found; " The red-breast loves to build..." And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Gray never produced any lines more exquisitely graceful than these. * Gray lived in great intimacy...

...earliest of the year, By hand» tinaecn, are »houeri» of violet» found ; The re'1-hreast love« X 㕒 "F 1847 Harper & Brothers"+ Shakespeare Willia " To wiSTER-ORor SD thy corne" — " To winter-ground a plant is to protect it from the the winter's...

...well worthy of insertion. " There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are showers of violets found ; The red-breast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Nor should we forget that those learned divines, Hammond, Pearson, and Sherlock, were Etonians, and...

...than some of the stanzas he retained, and most people will agree •with Eogers : — "There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen are...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." THE SCIENCE OP THE AGE * THE Philosophy of Common Life, considered in its relations to the laws of...

...annual visit." Thomson. " There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found : The redbreast loves to build and...there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground." Gray's Elegy (omitted stanza). " The redbreast oft at evening hours Shall kindly lend his little aid,...