III. A PROPHECY. THERE is a mighty dawning on the earth Of human glory; dreams unknown before Fill the mind's boundless world, and wondrous birth Is given to great thought; and deep-drawn lore, But late a hidden fount, at which a few Quaffed and were glad, is now a flowing river, And matter makes a very sport of distance; every side appears a silent token Of what will be hereafter, when existence And earth sweep high as heaven, on solemn wing. IV. CALVUS. BOLD mortal! thou dost ape the skeleton From every opened grave; and shouldst seem one, And certain airs that from thy lips arise: To which thy living death's-head gives the lie, THOMAS JAMES JUDKIN. I. SPECIAL PLEADING. (Craving the Critic's Notice.) GENTLE, it is my wont, when newly writ And with the knittings of her altered brow, I hold no parle, but instantly commit, Or not, such brain-work to the flames. Thus, Sir, Where there is need thou wilt but gently blame, Yet speak thy best praise freely when 't is due, "By-Gone Moods; or, Hues of Fancy and Feeling, from the Spring to the Autumn of Life. By the Rev. T. J. Judkin, M. A., formerly of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. London, 1856.” II. EUREKA!" "EUREKA!" still "Eureka!" was my cry; On some old poet's charmful verse intent; "Eureka?- what by such strange word is meant?" "I've found it,'—yes; e'en that which thousands try, And try in vain, to find within the pages Aforetime written by the white-haired sages, Or by long communings with present men, Native or foreign, through life's varied stages, — TRUTH!" "Where?"-" In woman's lips." kissing then Kate's lips, I laughing spake the word again. - And *"I have found it!”. the famous exclamation of Archimedes when he discovered the means of finding the quantum of alloy in the crown of Hiero, King of Sicily. III. A CHARACTER, DRAWN FROM THE LIFE.* AN old man with a fiddle in his hand, * Entitled by the author, "A Travelling Incident, - Cumberland." The only doubt perhaps of the truth of this excellent picture is suggested by the word "sadness" in the concluding line. It is not improbable that the man of the "guileful eye" had his pocket full of money at the time, and that the look of sadness in his face was a trick of trade. |