of this song: from Burns. Jessy Lewars had a call one morning He offered, if she would play him any tune of which she was fond, and for which she desired new verses, that he would do his best to gratify her wish. She sat down at the piano, and played over and over the air of an old song, beginning with the words "The robin cam' to the wren's nest, And keekit in, and keekit in: As lang's I hae an auld clout, To row ye in, to row ye in.'" Uncle now took his candle, and slunk off to bed, slipping up noiselessly that he might not disturb the thin sleep of the sufferer, saying in to himself "I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee;" "If thou wert there, if thou wert there;" and though the morning was at the window, he was up by eight, making breakfast for John and Mary. Love never faileth; but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall ccase; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanisk away; but love is of God, and cannot fail. ARTHUR H. HALLAM. "PRESENS imperfectum, -perfectum, plusquam perfectum FUTURUM." - GROTIUS. "The idea of thy life shall sweetly creep Into my study of imagination; And every lovely organ of thy life Shall come apparelled in more precious habit More moving delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of my soul, Than when thou livedst indeed." ARTHUR H. HALLAM. N the chancel of Clevedon Church, Somersetshire, rest the mortal remains of Arthur Henry Hallam, eldest son of our great philosophic historian and critic, and the friend to whom "In Memoriam" is sacred. This place was selected by his father, not only from the connection of kindred, being the burial-place of his maternal grandfather, Sir Abraham Elton, but likewise "on account of its still and sequestered situation, on a lone hill that overhangs the Bristol Channel." That lone hill, with its humble old church, its outlook over the waste of waters, where the stately ships go on," was, we doubt not, in Tennyson's mind, when the poem, "Break, break, break,” which contains the burden of that volume in which are enshrined so much of the deepest affection, poetry, philosophy, and godliness, rose into his "study of imagina tion "into the eye and prospect of his soul."1 1 The passage from Shakspeare prefixed to this paper, contains probably as much as can be said of the mental, not less than the affectionate conditions, under which such a record as In Memoriam is produced, and may give us more insight into the imaginative faculty's mode of working, than all our philosophizing and analysis. It seems to let out with the fulness, simplicity, and unconsciousness of a child-"Fancy's Child" the secret mechanism or procession of the greatest creative mind our race has produced. In itself, it has Lo recondite meaning, it answers fully its own sweet purpose. W、 |