...absence of specimens from this great classic, than as a selection from his works. SONG ON MAY MORNING. Now the bright Morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. EXTRACTS FROM COMUS. THE star, that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the...

...wrote a song to May, as blithe and beautiful as the season used to be. You see the colour in her cheek. Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes...doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with pur early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. This song (profanation apart) might be now altered...

...3d scries. The flowery Hay, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrosc. Hail, bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth, and...early song. And welcome thee, and wish thee long. This song is said still to be sung on the top of one of the colleges in Oxford, every May morning at...

...were, the burnishing of many studious and contemplative years, I here give you them to dispose of. Id, Day's harbinger Comes dancing from the East, and leads...lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Id. The nomination of persons to those places being so prime and inseparable a, /lower of his crown,...

...green, embroidered with daffodils, hawthorns, and blue-bottles. Peacham. Hail ! bounteous >.'.•.•, that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire;...thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Milton. He loves the May-jiy, which is bred of the codworm or caddis. Walton't Angler. Like early lovers,...

...Morning. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads witli her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws...Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale both boast thy blessing I Thus we salute thee with our earl) song, And welcome thee, and wish th«<...

...July, 1816. St. George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and St. David. MA Y. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and...Woods and groves are of thy dressing. Hill and dale both boast thy blessing ! Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee...

...melody, resounding from every bush and brake. In the language of the poet himself, we would exclaim, " Hail, bounteous May ! that dost inspire Mirth, and...thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing !" Pity it is, that, with the abandonment of many absurd customs and festivals of our European ancestors,...

...Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. SOXG ON MA Y MORNIXG. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. STANZAS FROM "HYMN ON THE SATll'lTY." IT was the winter wild, While the heaven-born child AH meanly...

...faire ; And Phoebus fresh as bridgroome to his mate, Came dancing forth, shaking his dewy hair.' Wartm. Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale...early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. 10 AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET VV. SHAKESPEARE.* WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd...