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YOUXG LOCH INVAR,
O, youug Loehinvar is eome mil of the
.West,
Through all the wide Border his steet
was ine oesc,:
And save his good broads woid he weap
ons naa none, ,
He rode all unarmed aiid he rode al
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j oo i;mnuu in ipve ana so aaunriess in
war.
There never was knight like 'the'. young
.Loch invar.
He staid nit lor.
trake, and he stopped
not for. stone : 1
He s want-the
.ske river wJiere ford
there w is nom
Rut, ere L)j align
od at isetherby gate,
The bride had onsented, the "rallant
came late :
For a laggard i love, and a dastard in
war,
V as to wed the fair young Ellen of
brave Loehinvar.
So boldly he entered the Xetherby Hall,
Among bride s-inen, and kinsmen, and
brothers, and all :
Then spoke the bride's father, his hand
eome ye in peace nere, or come yc
m war," . .
Ou to dance at our bridal, youiig Lord
Loehinvar r
4I long woo'd 3'our daughter. my suit
you denied I
Love swells like the Sol way,- but ebbs
like its tide
And now I am come, wjth this lost love
of mine, - t
To lead but one measure, drink one cup
of wine
TllprA nr mni(iIW
in Scotland more
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. lovely br far.
That would gladly -be the bride to the
young Loehinvar. 7 .,
The bride kissed the goblet ; the knight
tnnlr if nn
He quaffed off tbe wine, and he threw
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down the cup.
She looked dowM to blush, and
she
looked up to sih, ,
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in
could bar. x.md, ere her mother
Xbw tread
;ad wer
Loehinvar.
a measure !v said
That never Uu feuch !a calliard did
liitC , M
wmie ner motter did
fret, and her
And the bridegr-lbm stood dandling his
bonnet and hislplume
And the brjd'e-maidens whispered
"i Twere betierf by far
To have matchec our lair cousin with
young Loehinvar." ;
One touch to her hand, and one word
in her ear, y ' "
When they reached the hall-door, and
the charger stood near ; -So
light to the croupe the fair lady he
swung,
So light to the saddle before her he
sprung! '
4tShe is won ! wej are .gone, over bank.
bush and scauii;
They'll have fleet steeds that follow,"-
quoth young Loehinvar.
There was mounting 'mong Graemes of
the Netherby clan ; '.- ;
Fosters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they
rode and they ran :
There was racing and Chasing on Can-:
nobie Lee. i
iamer uia mm
But the lost bride ot Netherby ne'er'did
they see.
So daring in love, and so dauntless in war,
Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young
Loehinvar ?
For the Ledger.
Henry Crnbb K,olin
1 (sou's Kemiuiscences.
This is the record of a life of
which we have not in America the
like. Our country is not yet old
enough to furnish such a growth
the product of a civilization ahat
was old when America was discov
ered. A life of learned leisure, of
trained and cultivate social luxury.
A life of dinnings out, of visiting
from one perlectly appointed estab
lishment to another, a lite ot travel,
of literary and social md diplomatic
distinction and enjoyment without
drawback, or abatement for fifty
years more or less. English high
life has the cream of it.
This gentleman, though not of the
aristocracy by birth or connection,
yet had his circle among the best
people of England from 1775 when
he was born, to 1867 when he died,
at the great age of ninety-two. He
inherited a small patrimony, went to
the bar to. increase it, arid when by
prudence and industry he had
amassed enough to furnish a mod
erate income for life he deliberately,
relinquished all further gain and be
took himself to a life of literary and
social leisure. Studied awhile in
Germany; traveled much ;; corres
pondent of the London Times from
Denmark one while ; one while from
Spain; everywhere observant, buoy
ant, agreeable and fortunate. Friend
and correspondent of Wordsworth,
Goethe, Coleridge, Lamb, Robert-
eon, Rogers,' Arnold. &C., &c. Em
inent as a converser, and aneedotist,
a man of great amiability and con
sequent popularity, and living, to
such an age became, finally, like the
poet Rogers, the Nestor and oracle
of London l.terary circles. ! Alifeol
ease and prosperity. Nothing of
mark done, or said, or written, but
enough done ol each to show abil
ity,1 and what might have been, withQie
less denltorv alms nnrl nnm t Ua
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spur ot noble minds. ' I He felt
thiall bis ilife,;and was evidently designed to show! the angelic
dissatisfied with the reflection ttal fcthre and power. It is the same
iti was, after -all that he; had seen, l-fn ftrok KmilntrA,nf "t.Ko
and known, and ihnnorbf ti QJnilnwW.. i i ' - ,"'
useless lite. ; A thoughtful man too!
rplimnualv innliriAil o ni;' ;e;f
difisentiuir familv. but aolne over toff Mrst met ,,er' 01 ' gwat . personal
th
their teachings however,' and ail his4iux. 01,'.,,nL "an' eyes, and a
life he savs. "a 'Seeker, as the Quakers
sav. A wavs orrnmnor tor iho IwTht
mi t 1 , ' W
and truth, never feeling: sure! he Yen?e laVn the soundliessand acute
had; found ? it. Most charitable-4feesf of, he.r understanding, and in
giving largely of his income to aid
the deserving, a true loval gentle-
man, and English heart of oak. Let
us hope he found " the true Liirhtat
last.1 ; . 1 ' .-. ' ; ;'
Such books as this, formed from
private Diary and J Reminiscences
are valuable to the Historian. What
would we know of IImry of Na
varre but for Sully ? Cou'nt Gram
mont and Samuel Pepys and Evelyn
have; each preserved a much more
vivid picture of , England after the
Restoration - than any historian ol
them all. What would we5 not give
for such annals of the age. of Pe ri
des, of Augustus, of Leo the Mag
nificent! The interest that attaches
to all personal memoirs runs through
such a boot like a gold thread and
ieeps up tho. attention and curiosity
that would otherwise become daz
zled and fatigued, to the very last.
Through all the brilliant lights that
on the man niniself. How did. he
think and act,- what was the influ-
ence, or result, on Jam. how do
liumber lof aetofs, and Scenes, o
oes
njrure- remaining cenvrai 10
m - 1
eader who watches the curtai
at last orir hittt alorc
i To choose! from such a' multitude
of riches as is found in such a record
is embarrassing. Our readers may
find interest 'and amusement in the
following selections : (
In September 1800 when he was
twenfcy-tive years old, describing so
cial life in FrankfbrUin a letter, he
makes the following' note : "The
dancing is unlike anything I ever
saw. You must haye heard of it
under the name of waltzing that is,
rolling or turning, though the roll
ing is not horizontal but perpendic
ular. i;V-erter ,savs, ahd I say so
too, if I werei married, my wife;
should valtz (roll) with no man but
myself. . t ' !'
(Heire we pause in bur selections
to wonder Iwhat these gentlemen
wouldj. have, said to i the German.
Odoherty's :"MaximsT "published in
Blackwood with universal applause
some iwenty or thirty years later,
lays down the following rule in
choosing a i wife : aQt course you
will not marry-a waltzing girl,
that is, one who has been hati'ed
about by half your acquaintance.
.RELIGION. .
There is in the nature of man an
irresistible teudency'.to religion ; it
is founded in our wants and pas
sions, in the extent of our faculties,
in the quality of mind itself. Aken
side's description of the uhtired soul (
darting from j world to world is a
noble image of the restless longing
of the. mind after God and immor-,
tality. j The stronger his sensibility,
the more exalted his imagination,
the more pious every mati will be.
And in this inherent and essential
quality of our minds can we alone
account for the various absurd and
demonstrably false:dogmas believed
so honestly j and zealously by some.
Men run headlong into superstition
in the same" way. as young boys and
girls run into matrimony.
A CELEBRATED WOiU-X.?
In January 1804 I formed the ac
quaintance of a lady who. then en
joyed an European reputation, and
who will have a lasting place in
French literature. I was shown
into her bedroom, for which not
knowing Parisian customs,- I was
unprepared, iShe was sitting, up in
her bed, most .decorously, and
writing. She had her night-cap on,
and her face was iiot made up for
the day. It w.as by no means a captivating-
spectacle ; but I had a very
cordial reception, and two bright
black t-yes smiled benignantly upon
This was Madame de Stael.
; GOETHE '
In all the conversation of Goethe
he'ppoke in the most simple unpre
tentious manner, but there was in it
gre;at signincance, a giant strength,.
a 1
me
wh
ower without effort, reminding
of what I read ol a painting in
ch a man was wrestling with an
el. Aii ionorant man abused
Ung
picture ou the ground that in
ahfTRl tliftrfi was nn siorn nf pflfru-t.
A . , v, ,
l Mrs. Harbauld bore remains, when
ftunaiv.eiegani ngure
Her manners
ery agreeable. Her exce)-
fnejperiecwon 01 ner taste, in ine
ffftiraaUoii of Wordsworth she was
ovL , . ' , yt r
,e rasino1 DPYGU 10 SDts -juagment
IJfy any .-especial congeniality of feel
ing or py c9ncurren.ee in speculative
'pihioiis fbr-she was a Presbyte-
I- i- ' . . ... - s. .
-
-fttan ana ne tne ingnest ot fiierh
Church Episcopalians. Among her
poems Is a stanza on Life, written in
er
old age. Long, aftei
.1- had
Words.--to
me,
given these lines to Miss
worth, Wordsworth
said "
'.'Repeat me that stanza by, Mrs.
Barbauld. I did so. He made me
iep2at it till he learned it by heart.
lie
T T
was at "the time walking in his
LA
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ng-room at Rydal, "with his
land
s behind him, and I heard him
mutl
ter to himself ; "I am not in the
habit of grudging people their good
things, but I wish 1 had written
those lines : : ! 1
hf
.f Life I we ve been long together
pugh pleasant and through cloudy
weather ; r
I, is hard to jiart when friends are dear,
Perhaps t will cause a sigh, ajtear ;
Tlien bteal awaj-.ive little warning,"
I V X UWCky llllin. Wt!! L1UA '
'pier clime , ,
- jiiu iut; uuu uiuj iiikj.
fitlC 1 nonsirur irt on .iro sniri In
b been killed or wounded at
Waterloo. Will sixty be named
if leafier ? "
f- I MACAULAY. 5 '
A dinner-party at Stephen's. I
Ifd a most interesting companion in
upg Macaulay, one of the most
kimising of the rising generation.
has a good face; very eloquent
cheerful; liberal, but not a
dical, and seems a correct. man as
vfii as a iuu man. lie snowea a
ntnUte knowledge of subiects not
roduced by himself.
; f A GOOD WIFE. V.
Irs. Blake (wife of the painter)
the wife s virtue of virtues an
licit reverence for her husband.
i i. B. We note here that Mr. Rob-'
iMon was a batchelor.)
1 CAMPBELL. 1 , 1 '
?iVn ai'ticle on Cam,pbe'll hits" the
millon the head in the' saving that
libas acquired an immortality of
qtoiaiion. nis worKs are noi uis
toguished by imagination, sensibility
epprofound thought j bu t posterity
LUl always know him through happy
expressions, such as, "Coming events
t their suaaows oeiore, " lis
isiance lenus encuanLmeui 10 ine
.! . ' i J ' l i il
: THE YOUNG QUEEN.
J ' " ' " - ' -i
Eighleen hundred and thirty-eight.
iJishop of London told , A, that
jen the Bishops were first pre-
tfjd to Victoria on her accession,
fbi received them with all possible
dgnity, and then retired. Sue
ptesied through, a glass door, and
fdg;etting its transparency, ran bff
Vie a girl, as she is. :
: BURN Si &c. ,
2 lilogers quoted what was said of
)jorns : "He is great in verse, greater
In prose, and greatest of all in con-'
ve Nation." Wordsworth is also
gr itest in conversation ; and so it
is i ith all great men. Rogers sol
en ily advised me, "Let no man ever
be iuade you that you are growing
old" The advice is good for certain
pelons, and as a guard against pre
mifure indolence and melancholy
fciticipatioh. But it is I think,
ecftaliy wise and salutary to improve
tt4 counsel, "Know in time that you
aJ growing old.7' I do know it, and
tlifthe kno.wledge is wholesome is;
pAyed by this that I feel as' happy
aelvhen IiTad all the consciousness
ojyouth And vigor. ,
' Acise man, said the Professor,
des not trouble himself about need-
me
I
less " matters oflspqciilatioii ; a good
man does hot tryuble other people.
Good spirits aveia much better
test of health tharsjpw spirits are of
illness, K : .
What is often called indolence is,
in ract, the unconscious conscious
ness of incapacity. '
. ! j COLERIDG E
Coleridge kept me on the sketch
of attention and 'admiration from
half-past three o'clock
to twelve.
On politics, metaphysics,
and poetry
he was astonishing. But
1 cannot
help remarking that he may be easily
unsaddled, for though an' incompar
able declaimer and speech-maker, he
has neither the readiness, nor the
actiteness required
by a colloquial
with a true sense
disputant; so that
of inferiority which makes, me feel
humble in his presence, I do not feel
afraid of him. I used aftei ward 'to
compare him to a serpent; easy ;to
kill if yoii assume the defensive, but
if you let him attack,, his bite is mor
tal. I once asked Mad. de Stael
what she thought of him. She re
plied, "He is great in monologue, but
has no idea of dialogue."! I
AN TS, AND THE LIKE. , 1
Reading a. very amusing article in
the Ed. Review about ants. I can
not,, however, enter into he hih en
joyment which some persons have iif
such subjects. What, after all is
there -delightful or soul elevating in
contemplating countless myriads; of
animals, endowed with
marvellous
powers which lead to rj
othing be;
yond the preservation io
individual
existence, orrather the preservation
of a race. The eftect is sad rather
than animating, for the moi;e won
derful their powers are the more
elaborately , complex' ,a( fitted to
their end, and the uioroNthey resem
ble human beings, the kjjss apparent
absurdity is there in; thV opposition
that our powers shojilck vease With
their' present; state , of Aig. . For
my part, I am, convinced that f the
truths and postulates Of wntilon have
' R-
J conscience i and the 'riiorctjrzl, I '
sense.
ie mari'who i.not
ndsome at
20, strong at CylearneZ at 40, j and
rich at 50, never will IW handsome,
strong, learned ,r or rich.
Robert Hall's sayir-"Iwas that "in
matters of conscience) rst thoughts
are best; in matters orwtidence, the
last. ' -, ;-"; I
But we must siop soma where the
capaci ty of the Ledger hieing I lim
ited even for good things), vtsei ire
commend the book as a mine of amus
ing reminiscense, anecdote, and per
sonalities of a distinguished circle
and not without serious thought.
: '!:'';.. C. P.!S.
IIOW THE ZULUS FIGHT-
" b rom mv intercourse w 1th Ithe
Matables," says a correspondent of
the London limes, "I kno
lu style of fighting. . Evjer
dreadful tidings I 'have
w the iZu
since the
had con-
stantly before me the vision of f that
infuriated mass of Zulus, - like thou
sands of savage gorillas, riishing on
those devoted men; of the Twenty
fourth. The Zulus preferjand strive
to throw themselves in overwhelm
ing numbers on the weakest point
of the enemy. ; With dauritleSs,cour
age and the fury of tigers theyfrush
on, without the least concern of the
hundreds falling "in theirj. ranks or
the bodies barring their way ; jihey
press on to get toclose quarters as
speedily as possible, ilookmg neither
to tbe left nor right nor dreaming
of hiding lor a momeut behind stones
or bushes. They, -charge foryyardj
for; this reason! preferring: an open
field. Naturally courageous and vain
of their pro wess, they- firmly believe
that they need only follow the above
meniionea lacucs anu inev rausi win
the day 'These men are ruled?, by au
savage despot, lhey are trained as
soldiers all their lives in regiments
properly officered, all, in fact, in cor
rect military style, as nearly as j they
ican follow; When ranged in brder
of battle, each man holds
his right hand, a small
a gun in
shield is
and in his
struncr round his left arm.
left hand be holds a long and a short
assegai. At about forty tojfifty Spaces
they pause in thein headlong Career
and. hundreds ' and thousands' of
spears are hurled, at the. enemy
VVheu within few yards of the ene
my they make one last momentary
pause, only; to snap the assegai short
off, across the left, knee, and then
their favorite hand-to-band conflict
ensues. Thus the fight becomes a
slaughter, generally ending in the
complete success of the Zulus."; ;
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