And one, his little hand in hers,
Who weeps to see his sister weeping.

Then Jacqueline the silence broke.
She clasped her father's knees and spoke,
Her brother kneeling too;
While D'Arcy as before looked on,
Tho' from his manly cheek was gone
Its natural hue.
“ His praises from your lips I heard,
Till
my

fond heart was won ;
And, if in aught his Sire has erred,
Oh turn not from the Son !-
She, whom in joy, in grief you nursed;
Who climbed and called

you

father first, By that dear name conjuresOn her you thought—but to be kind ! When looked she up, but you inclined? These things, for ever in her mind, Oh are they gone from yours? Two kneeling at your feet behold; One-one how young ;-nor yet the other old. Oh spurn

them not-nor look so coldIf Jacqueline be cast away, Her bridal be her dying day.

-Well, well might she believe in you!
She listened, and she found it true.”

He shook his aged locks of snow;
And twice he turned, and rose to go.
She hung; and was St. Pierre to blame,
If tears and smiles together came?
“Oh no-begone! I'll hear no more.”
But, as he spoke, his voice relented.
That
very

look thy mother wore
When she implored, and old Le Roc consented.
True, I have erred and will atone;
For still I love him as my own.
And now, in my hands, yours with his unite;
A father's blessing on your heads alight!

Nor let the least be sent away.
All hearts shall sing 'Adieu to sorrow!'
St. Pierre has found his child to-day;
And old and young shall dance to-morrow.”

Had Louis * then before the gate dismounted, Lost in the chase at set of sun;

• Louis the Fourteenth.

Like Henry when he heard recounted *
The generous deeds himself had done,
(What time the miller's maid Colette
Sung, while he supped, her chansonnette)
Then—when St. Pierre addressed his village-train,
Then had the monarch with a sigh confessed
A joy by him unsought and unpossessed,
- Without it what are all the rest ?
To love, and to be loved again.

Alluding to a popular story related of Henry the Fourth of France similar to ours of “ The King and Miller of Mansfield.”

HUMAN LIFE.

1819.

THE ARGUMENT.

Introduction ... Ringing of Bells in a neighbouring Vil