SALMON-HUNTING.

And when, oh! lovely children, your northern home ye see,

Look round on all the distant hills, and greet them thus from me:
Say, far away in England, a little grave is green,

Of one who roam'd those Highland tracts, with spirit fresh and keen;
And when within that English grave we laid our early dead,

We sent for flowers from Scotland, to bloom above his head.
He perish'd young. Oh! noble boys, may YE all live to prove
Strong men-good hearts-and blessings, to the country of your love;
May ye preserve, through all Life's years of mingled joy and pain,
A child-like faith in holy things, and prayers not taught in vain ;
A child-like reverence and trust, with manhood's fearless heart,
Nor from that strength of earlier years, in later times depart;
But keep the name, renown'd so long, in song and ancient story,
The name of SCOTT, the proudest still, in Scotia's themes of glory!

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I stood within the fir-trees' shade,

Where water-rushes grow;

The wind was hush'd, the skies were clear,

And calm, as they are now.

And then, as now, the starlight gleam'd

Through yonder ruin'd pile;

And thou wert in thy flowery bloom,

My Caledonian isle !

And thy brave sons, with boat and oar,

Sped o'er the glittering stream;

How oft their voices on the flood

Have swept across my dream!

And now I hear their tones again,
And mingle in their toil;
O'er the dark, lurid waves we skim,
And bear away the spoil;
I've shared in many a festal joy,
Seen many a sun-lit strand;
But thou art sweeter far to me,
My Caledonian Land!

PENS HURST CASTLE.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY is, and ever must be, the presiding genius of PENSHURST. The place itself has been often described; and seldom better, perhaps, than when it sat to Sir Philip himself, for its portrait as Arcadia. "There were hills, which garnished their proud heights with stately trees; humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets, which, being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security; while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd's boy, piping, as though he should never be old; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal, singing; and it seemed, that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." It is but supposing the figures in the foreground to represent a shepherd-boy and a youthful shepherdess, and the accompanying plate might almost pass for the painter's delinea