The rocks and hollow mountains rung In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Thus hand-in-hand through life we'll go; LIFE. 1.-Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? 2.-Life's a short summer, man a flower. 3.-By turns we catch the vital breath and die4.--The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh. 5.-To be is better far than not to be, 6.-Though all man's life may seem a tragedy. 7. But light cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb; 8.-The bottom is but shallow whence they come. 9.-Your fate is but the common fate of all, 10.-Unmingled joys, here, to no man befall. 11.-Nature to each allots his proper sphere, 12.-Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. 13.-Custom does not often reason overrule 14. And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. 15.-Live well, how long or short permit, to heaven; 19. Then keep each passion down, however dear, 29. What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat, 31.-What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown? 34. That man lives twice who lives the first life well. 35.-Make then, while yet ye may, your God your friend, 37. The trust that's given guard, and to yourself be just; 1. Young. 2. Dr. Johnson. 3. Pope. 4. Prior. 5. Sewell. 6. Spenser. 7. Daniel. 8. Sir Walter Raleigh, 9. Longfellow. 10. Southwell. 11. Congreve. 12. Churchill. 13. Rochester. 14. Armstrong. 15. Milton. 16. Baily. 17. Trench. 18. Somerville, 19. Thompson. 20. Byron. 21. Smollet. 22. Crabbe. 23. Massinger. 24. Crowley. 25. Beattie. 26. Cowper. 27. Sir Walter Davenant. 28. Grey. 29. Willis. 30. Addi31. Dryden. 32. Francis Quarles. 33. Watkins. 34. Herrick. 35. William Mason. 36. Hill. 37. Dana. 38. Shakespeare. Bon. CENTO FROM POPE. 'Tis education forms the common mind; A mighty maze! but not without a plan. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Some have at first for wits, then poets passed- Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise.- Honor and shame from no condition rise, Who shall decide when doctors disagree? BIBLICAL CENTO. Cling to the Mighty One, Cling in thy grief; Cling to the Holy One, He gives relief; Moral Essay. Ps. lxxxix. 19. Ps. xxxix. 18. Ps. lxxxvi. 7. Cling to the Gracious One, Cling in thy pain; He will sustain. Cling to the Living One, He speaketh peace; Cling to the Bleeding One, In Him abide; Cling to the Coming One, Hope shall arise; Cling to the Reigning One, Joy lights thine eyes. Ps. cxvi. 5. 1 Thess. v. 24. Heb. vii. 25. Ps. cxlvii. 3. 1 John i. 7. Rev. xxii. 20. Ps. xcvii. 1. Ps. xvi. 11. THE RETURN OF ISRAEL. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel.-MICAH ii. 12. And the Temple again shall be built, And filled as it was of yore; And the burden be lift from the heart of the world, Prayers to the throne of Heaven, Shall be the sacrifice.-FESTUS. In many strange and Gentile lands Where Jacob's scattered sons are driven, With longing eyes and lifted hands, They wait Messiah's sign from heaven. The cup of fury they have quaffed, But Heaven will soon withdraw the draught, What though their bodies, as the ground, Shall rise to know her wrong no more. Micah v. 8. Jer. xxiii. 8. Lam. i. 17. Matth. xxiv. 30 Isa. li. 17. Isa. li. 20. Isa. li. 22. Isa. li. 23. Isa. lii. 2. Isa. liv. 3, 4. The veil is passing from her eyes, Thy ransomed sons return to thee! Where first its glorious course begun. And clustered fruits its vineyard bear. Then shall an Eden morn illume And nations in a day be born. The LORD his holy arm makes bare; Thy robes of bridal beauty wear, 2 Cor. iii. 16. Isa. liv. 12. Isa. lx. 14. Isa. li. 3. Isa. lii. 10. Macaronic Verse. A TREATISE OF WINE." THE following specimen of macaronic verse, from the com. monplace book of Richard Hilles, who died in 1535, is probably the best of its kind extant. The scriptural allusions and the large intermixture of Latin evidently point to the refectory of some genial monastery as its source: The best tree if ye take intent, Inter ligna fructifera, Is the vine tree by good argument, |