Advanced reader . Gabriel Rosetti. The Earthly Paradise. O FAIR midspring, besung so oft and oft, How can I praise thy loveliness enow ? Thy sun that burns not, and thy breezes soft That oer the blossoms of the orchard blow, The thousand things that neath the young leaves grow. The hopes and chances of the growing year. Winter forgotten long, and summer near. When Summer brings the lily and the brings us fear; her very death she bringsHid in her anxious heart, the forge of woes ;And, dull with fear, no more the mavis thou ! thou diest not, but thy fresh life chngs
Advanced reader . Gabriel Rosetti. The Earthly Paradise. O FAIR midspring, besung so oft and oft, How can I praise thy loveliness enow ? Thy sun that burns not, and thy breezes soft That oer the blossoms of the orchard blow, The thousand things that neath the young leaves grow. The hopes and chances of the growing year. Winter forgotten long, and summer near. When Summer brings the lily and the brings us fear; her very death she bringsHid in her anxious heart, the forge of woes ;And, dull with fear, no more the mavis thou ! thou diest not, but thy fresh life chngsAbout the fainting autumns sweet in the earth the hopeful seed they lay. Ah ! life of all the year, why yet do IAmid thy snowy blossoms fragrant long for that which never draweth nigh,Striving my pleasure from my pain to weight from off my fluttering mirth to lift ?—Now, when far bells are ringing, Come again,Come back, past years ! why will ye pass in vain ? — William HUXLEY. Biographical.—Thomas Henry Huxley was born on the 4th of May,1825, at Ealing, ISIiddlesex, England, where he received his early educa-tion. For the rest he is indebted chiefly to the works of Carlyle andMill, to the diligent study of German literature, and to the example andcareful training of Wharton Jones, a distinguished English physiologist 5and anatomist. When quite a youth, commenced the study ofmedicine under his brother-in-law, a physician of some standing, and from1842 to 1845 continued his education at Sydenham College and at CharingCross Hospital Medical School. Being too young to take his degree in1846, he sought and obtained an appointment in connection with the Haslar 10Naval Hospital, near Portsmouth. Later, in the same year, he becameAssistant-Surgeon in H. M. S. Rattlesnake, then bound on an exploringexpedition off the coast of Australia. During his five years voyage hecollected a great amount of important scientific information, and
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