Spread upward till thy boughs discern

The front of Sumner-place.

This fruit of thine by Love is blest,

That but a moment lay

Where fairer fruit of Love may rest
Some happy future day.

I kiss it twice, I kiss it thrice,

The warmth it thence shall win

To riper life may magnetize
The baby-oak within.

But thou, while kingdoms overset.
Or lapse from hand to hand,
Thy leaf shall never fail, nor yet
Thine acorn in the land.

May never saw dismember thee,
Nor wielded axe disjoint;
That art the fairest spoken tree
From here to Lizard-point.

O rock upon thy towery top
All throats that gurgle sweet!
All starry culmination drop
Balin-dews to bathe thy feet!

All grass of silky feather grow—

And while he sinks or swells

The full south-breeze around thee blow

The sound of minster bells.

e blow

But, rolling as in sle Low thunders bring the

That makes thee bro

And hear me swear a s

That only by thy sid

Will I to Olive plight

And gain her for my

And when my marriage
She, Dryad-like, sha
Alternate leaf and acon

In wreath about her

And I will work in pro
And praise thee mor
Than bard has honored
Or that Thessalian g

In which the swarthy

And mystic sentence
And more than Englan
Thy famous brother-

Wherein the younger
Till all the paths wer

THE MAY QUEEN.

ke and call me early, call me early, mother dear; I be the happiest time of all the glad New-year; d New-year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the

a black, black eye, they say, but none so bright as

aret and Mary, there's Kate and Caroline: air as little Alice in all the land, they say: Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the

nd all night, mother, that I shall never wake, call me loud when the day begins to break : ather knots of flowers, and buds and garlands gay, Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the

the valley, whom think ye should I see, ning on the bridge beneath the hazel-tree? that sharp look, mother, I gave him yesterday,Queen o' the May. mother, I'm to be Queen o' the

He thought I was a ghost, mother, for I was all in white,
And I ran by him without speaking, like a flash of light.
They call me cruel-hearted, but I care not what they say,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the
May.

They say he's dying all for love, but that can never be:

They say

his heart is breaking, mother-what is that to me? There's many a bolder lad 'ill woo me any summer day, And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.

Little Effie shall go with me to-morrow to the green,

And you'll be there, too, mother, to see me made the Queen: For the shepherd lads on every side 'ill come from far away, And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.

The honeysuckle round the porch has woven its wavy bowers, And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers; And the wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray,

And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.

The night-winds come and go, mother, upon the meadow grass, And the happy stars above them seem to brighten as they pass; There will not be a drop of rain the whole of the livelong day, And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen' the May.

vake and call me early, call me early, mother dear, I be the happiest time of all the glad New-year: be of all the year the maddest, merriest day, Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the

NEW YEAR'S EVE.

ing call me early, call me early, mother dear,
ee the sun rise upon the glad New-year.
New-year that I shall ever see,

lay me low i' the mould, and think no more of me.

the sun set: he set and left behind

year, the dear old time, and all my peace of mind; -year's coming up, mother, but I shall never see n the blackthorn, the leaf upon the tree.

made a crown of flowers: we had a merry day; awthorn on the green they made me Queen of May; ed about the May-pole and in the hazel copse, Wain came out above the tall white chimney-tops.

flower on all the hills: the frost is on the pane: live till the snowdrops come again: