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Review Of Literature.
" Autumn . "Autumn , I raise the song to thee , And greet thy bounty on the plain , AVhere poppies mingle ivith tiie grain , Like rubies on a golden sea ! The clust ' ring grapes upon the vine , The
downy peach , the nectarine , The blushing plum , the luscious pine And all earth ' s richest fruits , are thine . Thy life is one long harvest day—Thy sickle the true sithe of Time—And peasant boys , ivith uncouth rhyme And merry faces , sing their lay , As bearing the last sheaf they come To join the village shout of harvest-home !"
In a different vein , but equally beautiful , is the following : — " AVhen last we met , an idle band Of summer friends surrounded her , From which her worth could not command One single-hearted worshipper . To them she spake with accents bland , Yet passionless as sweet they
^ were ; To me she gave a stolen glance , Fraught with love ' s fervid utterance ! AVh y should I wish me one of those AVho secretly with- envy burn—AVhose brightest hopes no bliss disclose , AVhose hearts no sacred fire inurn—AVho listen where no feeling flows , whom her looks in
On coldness turn ? What though about her path they move , Mine is her stolen glance of love !" AVe are glad to see , from Brother Stevens ' s list of subscribers , that hi * wffin i T f d rou ? l him in a S ° ™ sto- ; <™ o"gst the names we find those of several literary and some political characters The volume is appropriatel y dedicated to the author's mother , and closes with some lines written by Iris father , found amongst his papers .
THE DRAMA . THE two theatres have , since our last , commenced their season . The Drury Lane management has not distinguished itself by the production of much attractive novelty . Caractacus— an alteration from Beaumont and Fletcher—recommended h y new music ancl quadrupeds—established favourites from the Zoological Gardens
, failed to attract the town ; and though much expense had been lavished on the spectacle , it was withdrawn m a few nights . Joan of Arc , an opera—the libretto by Fitzball the music by Balfe—though it possesses much that is clever in the way ot adaptation and instrumentation , is not calculated to increase the reputa tion of the composer . The Daughter ofthe Danube is a very pretty
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of Literature.
" Autumn . "Autumn , I raise the song to thee , And greet thy bounty on the plain , AVhere poppies mingle ivith tiie grain , Like rubies on a golden sea ! The clust ' ring grapes upon the vine , The
downy peach , the nectarine , The blushing plum , the luscious pine And all earth ' s richest fruits , are thine . Thy life is one long harvest day—Thy sickle the true sithe of Time—And peasant boys , ivith uncouth rhyme And merry faces , sing their lay , As bearing the last sheaf they come To join the village shout of harvest-home !"
In a different vein , but equally beautiful , is the following : — " AVhen last we met , an idle band Of summer friends surrounded her , From which her worth could not command One single-hearted worshipper . To them she spake with accents bland , Yet passionless as sweet they
^ were ; To me she gave a stolen glance , Fraught with love ' s fervid utterance ! AVh y should I wish me one of those AVho secretly with- envy burn—AVhose brightest hopes no bliss disclose , AVhose hearts no sacred fire inurn—AVho listen where no feeling flows , whom her looks in
On coldness turn ? What though about her path they move , Mine is her stolen glance of love !" AVe are glad to see , from Brother Stevens ' s list of subscribers , that hi * wffin i T f d rou ? l him in a S ° ™ sto- ; <™ o"gst the names we find those of several literary and some political characters The volume is appropriatel y dedicated to the author's mother , and closes with some lines written by Iris father , found amongst his papers .
THE DRAMA . THE two theatres have , since our last , commenced their season . The Drury Lane management has not distinguished itself by the production of much attractive novelty . Caractacus— an alteration from Beaumont and Fletcher—recommended h y new music ancl quadrupeds—established favourites from the Zoological Gardens
, failed to attract the town ; and though much expense had been lavished on the spectacle , it was withdrawn m a few nights . Joan of Arc , an opera—the libretto by Fitzball the music by Balfe—though it possesses much that is clever in the way ot adaptation and instrumentation , is not calculated to increase the reputa tion of the composer . The Daughter ofthe Danube is a very pretty