Till the bait is gone from the crafty line,
And the hook hangs bare below.

He blurs the print of the scholar's book,
And intrudes in the maiden's prayer,
And profanes the cell of the holy man,
In the shape of a lady fair.

In the darkest night, and the bright daylight,
In earth, and sea, and sky,

In every home of human thought,
Will love be lurking nigh.

ROARING BROOK.

(A PASSAGE OF SCENERY IN CONNECTICUT.)

It was a mountain stream that with the leap
Of its impatient waters had worn out

A channel in the rock, and wash'd away
The earth that had upheld the tall old trees,
Till it was darken'd with the shadowy arch
Of the o'er-leaning branches. Here and there
It loiter'd in a broad and limpid pool
That circled round demurely, and anon
Sprung violently over where the rock
Fell suddenly, and bore its bubbles on,
Till they were broken by the hanging moss,
As anger with a gentle word grows calm.

In spring-time, when the snows were coming down,

And in the flooding of the Autumn rains,
No foot might enter there-but in the hot'
And thirsty summer, when the fountains slept,
You could go up its channel in the shade,
To the far sources, with a brow as cool
As in the grotto of the anchorite.

Here when an idle student have I come,
And in a hollow of the rock lain down
And mus'd until the eventide, or read
Some fine old poet till my nook became
A haunt of faery, or the busy flow
Of water to my spell-bewilder'd ear

Seem'd like the din of some gay tournament.

Pleasant have been such hours, and tho' the wise Have said that I was indolent, and they

Who taught me have reprov'd me that I play'd The truant in the leafy month of June,

I deem it true philosophy in him

Whose path is in the rude and busy world,

To loiter with these wayside comforters.

LINES ON THE NEW YEAR.

JANUARY 1, 1825.

FLEETLY hath past the year.

The seasons came

Duly as they are wont-the gentle Spring,
And the delicious Summer, and the cool,
Rich Autunin, with the nodding of the grain,
And Winter, like an old and hoary man,
Frosty and stiff-and so are chronicled—
We have found beauty in the new green leaf,
And in the first blown violets; we have drunk
Cool water from the rock, and in the shade
Sunk to the noon-tide slumber ;- -we have eat
The mellow fruitage of the bending tree,
And girded to our pleasant wanderings

When the cool wind came freshly from the hills;

And when the tinting of the Autumn leaves
Had faded from its glory, we have sat
By the good fires of Winter, and rejoiced
Over the fulness of the gathered sheaf.

“God hath been good to us!" "Tis He whose hand Moulded the sunny hills, and hollowed out

The shelter of the valleys, and doth keep
The fountains in their secret places cool;

And it is He who leadeth up the sun
And ordereth the starry influences,

And tempereth the keenness of the frost—
And therefore, in the plenty of the feast,
And in the lifting of the cup, let HIM

Have praises for the well completed year.