. The Maple-leaf, or Canadian annual : a literary souvenir for 1849. spring. With eyes as blue as heavens own arch, and brow so pure and fair, As if no thoughts but holy ones were ever written there; And aye her heart was kind and true as it was light and gay. And all who knew her loved her well—our gentle Lady May. And soon again rang merrily the joyous old church bell. And woke the slumbering echoes round, oer hill, and wood and dell ; And they bore her to the church again, and one was at her side. Who clasped her Hly-hand in his, and took her for his bride; And the village maidens, all in w
. The Maple-leaf, or Canadian annual : a literary souvenir for 1849. spring. With eyes as blue as heavens own arch, and brow so pure and fair, As if no thoughts but holy ones were ever written there; And aye her heart was kind and true as it was light and gay. And all who knew her loved her well—our gentle Lady May. And soon again rang merrily the joyous old church bell. And woke the slumbering echoes round, oer hill, and wood and dell ; And they bore her to the church again, and one was at her side. Who clasped her Hly-hand in his, and took her for his bride; And the village maidens, all in white, strewed flowers in her way ; Oh! looked site not right beautiful ?—our noble Lady May. A year had passed, and once again, oer hill, and wood, and dale. Rang mournfully the old church bell a solemn funeral wail; And we saw her in her coffin laid, like one laid down to rest. Her blue eyes closed, her white hands clasped in meekness on her breast; And all were weeping bitterly above the peaceful clay, But she was loveliest then of all—our angel Lady THE BULL FIGHT. A lively writer, in remarking on the uncertainty that hangs about everything inSpain, and the strange mixture of Hibernian vivacity and good humour, with theapathetic fatalism and imperturbable gravity of the Turk, says that Spain isno paradise for calculators—since what ought to happen, and what would happenelsewhere, according to the doctrine of probabiUties, is exactly the event which isleast likely to come to pass. Every matter of business wears an aspect of want ofsystem, perfectly shocking to the regular and careful Englishman; nothing seemscertain ; even the day of the montli is a subject of dispute; and the chances are tento one that the proprietor of a public galcni in the provinces does not know whetherhis own vehicle sets out for Madrid on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays. But,notwithstanding this seeming apathy, there is one thing, when all else fails, which canrouse the Spaniard; notwiths
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