naked and feed the hungry, I would admonish thee for this unseasonable levity. Those, my daughter, who seek to be happy, wed not for the sake of costly dresses-well plenished rooms-and the fatness and fulness of the earth :-these things fade and perish-winter kills man's flocks, and the moths destroy the finest fleeces. Chaste true love is an unsolicited fire-warming, but not burning-glowing alike amid pover ty and wealth-and as flowers grow towards the sun, so grows peace and happiness under the gentle light of true love." "Hear ye that again," cried Jenny, "all ye who come to make another bode for Bodenton. To boot and saddle-to whip and spur some sax score and seven of ye will ye stand till I call Je forth by name." "This is a merry lass," said one of some half-adozen shepherds" od now if I don't think she has more spunk than the bride-and then she's twice as bonny -it's a shame such a quean should live single." "Thou art a froward lass," said the divine, in a half whisper, to Jenny," a froward lass, but à merry one-I think ye know a secret that will not be long kept-choose us out a bridegroom-and see ye choose a clever one-I shall let a wayward woman have her will in the kirk for once." Jenny glanced her eye on her mistress, and away she went on her mission. "Choose me, lass," said one, "and I'll give thee a handful of gold." "Had ye been less of a fool," whispered Jenny, in the same confidential tone, "I could have made yere fortune." She looked another for a moment in the face and said, "Thou's none of the marrying kind." To a third she whispered," A horse and a half-pint stoup, what wantest thou with a wife?" She muttered in the ear of a fourth, "A fighting cock, a terrier dog, and a bird in a cage, here stands an idle man." crowd seemed unwilling to endure the scrutiny of this shrewd inquisitor, and gave way before her. At The last she stept suddenly up to a young man in a shepherd's dress-a servant to a neighbouring farmer-and in whom no one had hitherto thought of finding a bridegroom, and laying her hand on his shoulder whispered something in his ear, which sent the blood to his brow. They looked. steadfastly on each other for a moment, and Jenny taking his hand, said, "The minister wants to marry ye, man-can ye come without a crutch?" A titter ran among the women, and a murmur among the men, as this new candidate for the vacant honour of bridegroom made his appearance: the bride took his hand and said, "He is my choice, and I am his-he was friendly to me when I was friendless-he was kind when all were unkind; when others scorned the poor menial maid with her carroty hair and her hame→ made gown, he alone loved me and served me. Since my uncle's death I have had wooers many they fell in love with Bodenton-but none, save this kind lad, ever fell in love with me-and poor though he be, and but modestly clad, he has more of that scarce commodity called common sense, than some seventeen of the proudest of them. So, reverend sir, do what ye have to do-for I'm as fixed in my purpose as Burnswark-hill." "A capital lass-a brave lass-and a merry lass," half shouted the assembled multitude. "Aye, and what is better," said the divine, "a sensible and a discerning lass this choice of thine, bride, will be a credit to us all; and when I have done the deed according to law and gospel, if ye will tarry with your husband and your company, I will preach ye a short and pithy sermon, on the folly and ungainfulness of making holy marriage a matter of barter and profit." "If ye be counselled by me," said Jenny Jardine, "ye will seek your sermon in the watchword of my mistress and me Another bode for Bodenton'-it's a gallant text, though a profane one." NALLA. SPANISH ROMANCES. No. VIII. THERE are sublime lessons of morality in some of the old Spanish poets -they seem to march along in all the pomp and pageantry of funereal state. They speak as with an oracular voice. Their discourse is of that death over which they triumph, and which they make the servant of their verse, and the minister of their wisdom. The grave is almost as often the record of man's pride as the witness of his humiliation. He has his revenge on mortality by raising pillars and piles-whether of sculpture or of song-more durable than the poor tenement that mortality has laid in ruins. Death sweeps away the woe-worn creature of years, who in return builds up his monument, which lasts for centuries-deaf to the storm, and reckless of vicissitude. There is a fine flow of solemn truths in Jorge Manrique's Glosa on his departed friend. These are extracts. AWAKE, Recuerde el alma dormida abiue el seso y despierte contemplando, como se passa la vida, como se viene la muerte tan callando: Quan presto se va el plazer, como despues de acordado da dolor, como a nuestro parecer qualquiera tiempo passado fue mejor. Nuestras vidas son los rios que van a dar en la mar, que es el morir, allà van los señorios derechos a se acabar y consumir : alli los rios caudales, alli los otros medianos y mas chicos, allegados son iguales los que viuen por sus manos y los ricos. Si fuesse en nuestro poder tornar la cara hermosa corporal, como podemos hazer el anima gloriosa angelical, que diligencia tan viva tuuieramos cada hora, y tan presta, en componer la cautiua, y dexar a la señora descompuesta. Ved de quan poco valor son las cosas tras q andamos y corremos, que en este mundo traydor, aun primero que muramos AWAKE, MY SLEEPING SOUL. Awake, awake, my sleeping soul, Rouse from thy dreams of hope and fear: How soon life's busy moments roll, How soon the hour of death draws near! How swiftly hurrying joy glides by! And nought but sorrow's shade remains Yet sweeter is the memory Of other moments' griefs and pains Our lives are rivers flowing on The mighty grave: There go-as there have ever gone, All pomp, and pride, and royalty, Which nought can save. There roll the mountain's rapid streams, There rolls the little gentle rill, There mingle all— Lost in that ocean-tide which seems To swallow-though unsated still O could we but adorn the face, As we might clothe with glorious grace, O what industrious, busy will, The sensual captive with our skill, O mark of what delusive worth The fleeting things for which we sigh! For, in this vain deceitful earth, las perdemos. Dellas deshace la edad, en los mas altos estados Los plazeres y dulçores Que son, sino corredores, y la muerte la celada en que caemos; No mirando nuestro daño corremos a rienda suelta sin parar, Estos Reyes poderosos, pa casos tristes llorosos, fueron sus buenas venturas trastornadas; Assi que no ay cosa fuerte a Papas, ni Emperadores, ni Perlados, que assi los trata la muerte como a los pobres pastores de ganados. Dexemos a los Troyanos, que sus males no los vimos, ni sus glorias, Dexemos a los Romanos, aunque oymos, y leymos sus historias: no curemos de saber lo de aquel siglo passado No se os haze tan amarga Pues otra vida mas larga Aunque esta vida de honor Mas con todo es muy mejor que la otra corporal perecedera. El viuir que es perdurable no se gana con estados mundanales, JAN. 1824. Yes! lose for ever; And time destroys them in its way, And busy change; All bear the seeds of self-decay, The dazzling dreams, the luscious sweets, Where pilgrim oft with pilgrim meets, We reck not, but with breathless speed As driven by fate Then stop-Death calls-"Take heed, take heed," And then we fain would hurry back, We read of mighty monarchs driven Their sceptres and their glories riven, Death treats all mortal things the same; He heeds no rank, respects no name, The Trojans are in darkness laid, The Roman history's veil'd in shade, Why should we seek the vain display When the events of yesterday The battle to be fought,-though hard, For thou wilt gain a rich reward There is a life which virtue lives In men's deep hearts enshrined, though this Yet the long-living fame, that gives This is the second life,-the best G Ni con vida delectable Mas los buenos Religiosos Los caualleros famosos No gastemos tiempo ya en esta vida mezquina por tal modo; Que mi voluntad està conforme con la diuiha para todo. Que consciente en mi morir 3 con voluntad plazentera clara y pura? Que querer el hombre viuir quado Dios quiere que muera es locura. Tu que por nuestra maldad tomaste forma ciuil y baxo nombre, Tu que a tu diuinidad juntaste cosa tan vil como el hombre. Tu que tan gran agravemientos sufriste con resistencia en tu persona: No por mis merecimientos, mas por tu santa clemencia me perdona. Nor in the scenes of ease and rest, Nor 'midst the murderous sins of life, But in devotion's sainted cell, Where monks and hermits pass their time And by bold warriors, who repel, Let's waste no words,-for calm and still Submission needs; For that, which is my Maker's will, I'm ready now to die.-I give Thou who didst bend thee from above, Thou who didst clothe thee in thy love Thou who didst bear the stripes abhorr'd, Not for my merit-heavenly Lord! Yet if ever the staid and sober brow of religion was adorned with garlands of flowers-if ever she was led by cheerfulness into the daily walks of the world—if ever she was courted by the smiles of poetry and of natural joy—it was in Spain. True, she had a terrible aspect, and a scourge of vipers for those she hated; but on the simple, untutored, obedient spirits that followed in her gorgeous train, she breathed nothing but peace, and beauty, and blessedness. Their devotion had none of the high abstractions of philosophy, neither had it any of philosophy's doubts and fears. They believed and felt-they felt and believed. Their creed intermingled itself with their social affections—their devotion was fed by every-day objects-over which their romanceros threw the lustre of poetical imagery, and which their priests enlisted in the service of religion. COME, WANDERING SHEEP, O COME! Oveja perdida, ven sobre mis hombros, que hoy no solo tu pastor soy, sino tu pasto tambien. Por descubrirte mejor cuando balabas perdida,, dejé en un árbol la vida donde me subió tu amor : si prenda quieres mayor mis obras hoy te la den: veja perdida! ven! Come, wandering sheep, O come! I'll bear thee to thy home, I saw thee stray forlorn, Antes que á Belen partamos 66 que es de todos los humanos "la mayor felicidad!" A que viene desde el trono A que viene siendo eterno 66 que es de todos los humanos "la mayor felicidad ! Pues si á darnos paz viene While to Bethlem we are going, Well, then! let us haste to Bethlem, The pastoral romances too are generally the very portraiture of genuine sentiment-undefaced by the decorations and delusions of artificial society. Their charms are not extraneous. They are varied; they are pure and passionate. They have nothing of the mysticism of civilization, nor of the adorning of deceit. Sañosa está la niña, ay Dios! quien le hablaría! En la sierra anda la niña su ganado à repastar, hermosa como las flores, sañosa como la mar: sañosa está la niña, ay Dios! quien le hablaría. THE MAIDEN IS DISQUIETED. The maiden is disquieted, Who shall break on her footsteps' tread ? She is wandering o'er the mountain there, She is fair as the brightest flowers are fair, Who shall break on her footsteps' tread? NAY! SHEPHERD, NAY! THOU ART UNWARY. Porque olvidas el rebaño ? mira, pastor, que es mancilla, -Ay! Pascual que Bartolilla es causa de tanto daño. Nay! shepherd, nay! thou art unwary— |