TO THE SPIRIT OF HEALTH. SWEET Spirit of the sunny brow I've sought thee in the youthful hour I've traced thee to the streamy dell, Where living waves clear-gushing well, And calmly in its mossy cell The violet lies reposing. The cliffy steep I've climb'd for thee; Light carolling his gladsome lay, The lark his song was singing. When Summer suns wheel'd sultry by, Full oft, amid the quiet bowers, I've traced thy steps o'er fragrant flowers, Thy influence descending. In bounteous Autumn oft with thee Even when stern Winter's storms blew chill, I've felt thy breath bestowing. Whither, sweet Spirit! hast thou fled ? Hear! 'mid thy wanderings blest and free, Canst thou behold the feeble streak Its living light o'ershading? Thou canst not! Come, then, Spirit mild! Come from the far, the breezy wild! Come from the heathy mountain ! Come from the leafy glen! And bring With thee gales sweet as breathing Spring, When Zephyr stirs, with airy wing, Young flowers that kiss the fountain! Dear Spirit! come! and spread once more And I will weave thee garlands fair, GENIUS. O, GENIUS! thou art near allied to madness! Thy breathings, O how sweet! thy tides, how high! Thy listening ear, to lutes and loves, among NEW BUILDINGS AT CAMBRIDGE. THOSE persons, whom chance or curiosity may have led to the University of Cambridge, must doubtless have been actuated by such feelings of admiration as its colleges and public buildings are calculated to impress upon the mind of every stranger. The passing traveller finds there objects which, excepting in the Sister University, have perhaps nowhere a parallel. Instead of the din of a metropolis, or the hurry and confusion of those towns where “trade's proud empire" pervades every rank of society, the silence which reigns throughout the spacious quadrangle, the gloom of the monastic cloister, and the grey Gothic portal bearing the stamp of years, all conspire to excite awe and veneration, even in the most unlettered. But to him who is able justly to appreciate the ends for which these establishments were founded, -who is acquainted with the times, and the character of the illustrious individuals who gave birth to these retreats of science, endowed them with the ample means of prosecuting the study of learning and philosophy, and instituted rewards for those who dedicated themselves to the pursuit of knowledge,-who recollects the many philosophers to whom these institutions have given birth, and pictures to his imagination those who shall hereafter go forth to pursue paths as yet untrod |