...My life is cold and dark and dreary, It rains, and the wind is never weary ; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And my days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart, and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun...

...life is cold and dark and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And my days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart, and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the Sun...

...life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past, But the hopes of youth fall...rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. There are two other poems in this collection, which many of our readers will believe to be in no respect...

...dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never wear}' ; Memory clings to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall...and dreary. Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Above the dark clouds is the sun still shining : Thy fate is the common fate of all ; Into each life...

...established seventy, and not fifty years ago. It dates from May 11, 1801. Г1Т. OUE ЕАГЮГ DAYS. "Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary"— Longfellow. О ! EVEB since the world was young It chance and change has known, And grief has sighed...

...life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past, But the hopes of youth fall...rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. There are two other poems in this collection, which many of our readers will believe to be in no respect...

...life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past, But the hopes of youth fall...rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. GOD'S-ACRE. I LIKE that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's- Acre ! It is just...

...life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall...rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. MAIDENHOOD. MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening...

...life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall...rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. We earnestly trust (as does the reader) that the worthy Professor's life may be fong and happily free...

...life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall...rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary." " Excelsior," the last poem of the volume, is one of those animated moral poems, full of courage and...