. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . jHESE restless surges eat away the shores [plain =^^gW Of earths old continent-; the fertile. \Velters in shallow?, headlands crui And the tide drifts the sea-sand in the streetiOf the drowned city. Thou, meanwhile, afarIn the green chambers of the middle sea,Where broadest spread the waters and the lineSinks deepest, while no eye beholds thy work,Creator ! thou dost teach the coral wormTo lay his mighty reefs. From age to age,He builds beneath the waters, till, at last,His bulwarks
. Perfect pearls of poetry and prose; the most unique, touching, inspiring and beautiful literary . jHESE restless surges eat away the shores [plain =^^gW Of earths old continent-; the fertile. \Velters in shallow?, headlands crui And the tide drifts the sea-sand in the streetiOf the drowned city. Thou, meanwhile, afarIn the green chambers of the middle sea,Where broadest spread the waters and the lineSinks deepest, while no eye beholds thy work,Creator ! thou dost teach the coral wormTo lay his mighty reefs. From age to age,He builds beneath the waters, till, at last,His bulwarks overtop the brine, and checkThe long wave rolling from the southern poleTo break upon Japan. TEE EGGS AND THE HORSES. A MATRIMONIAL EriC. sOHN Dobbins was so captivated By Mary Truemans fortune, faceand cap,(With near two thousand pounds thehook was baited,)That in he popped to matrimonystrap. One small ingredient towards seerns, neer occupied a single thought;For his accomplished brideAppearing well sujpliedWith the three charms of riches, Wauty,dress,He did not, a.** lie ought,Think of anght else; so no inquiry made heAh to the temper of the lady. .d here was certainly a great omis
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