THE PARROT. A DOMESTIC ANECDOTE. THE following incident, so strongly illustrating the power of memory and association in the lower animals, is not a fiction. I heard it many years ago in the Island of Mull, from the family to whom the bird belonged. THE deep affections of the breast, A parrot, from the Spanish Main, Full young, and early caged, came o’er With bright wings, to the bleak domain Of Mulla's shore. To spicy groves where he had won For these he changed the smoke of turf, His golden eye. But, petted, in our climate cold He lived and chatter'd many a day: Until with age, from green and gold His wings grew gray. At last, when blind and seeming dumb, He hail'd the bird in Spanish speech, SONG OF THE COLONISTS DEPARTING FOR NEW ZEALAND. STEER, helmsman, till you steer our way, By stars beyond the line; We go to found a realm, one day, Like England's self to shine. CHORUS. Cheer up-cheer up-our course we 'll keep, With dauntless heart and hand; And when we've plough'd the stormy deep, We'll plough a smiling land :— A land, where beauties importune To sow but plenteous seeds, and prune Chorus.-Cheer up-cheer up, &c. There, tracts uncheer'd by human words, Shall hear the lowing of our herds, And tinkling of our folds. Chorus.-Cheer up-cheer up, &c. Like rubies set in gold, shall blush Chorus.—Cheer up-cheer up, &c. Britannia's pride is in our hearts, Her blood is in our veins— Like Ariel's magic chains. CHORUS. Cheer up-cheer up-our course we'll keep, With dauntless heart and hand; And when we've plough'd the stormy deep, We'll plough a smiling land. MOONLIGHT. THE kiss that would make a maid's cheek flush Ye days, gone—never tò come back, 'Twas moonlight, when my earliest love First on my bosom dropt her head; A moment then concentrated The bliss of years, as if the spheres Their course had faster driven, And carried, Enoch-like above, A living man to Heaven. 'Tis by the rolling moon we measure The Moon's the Earth's enamour'd bride; Though, cross'd by him, sometimes she dip Her light, in short offended pride, And faints to an eclipse. The fairies revel by her sheen; The nightingale salutes her Queen Then ye that love-by moonlight gloom That nightingales sung o'er his tomb, |